joanne Douglas's (jdrealtor) Blog

Last month NAR announced that the market was stabilizing and they provided a much of statistics to prove that point.   November 20th NAR announced that we are in full transition,  Conditions for home buyers have improved and sellers are more willing to negotiate a lower price.   The November numb...

I just had up time from 3-5pm; not surprisingly, the phone didn't ring at all!  Hopefully, the 5-7 shift will get more action than I did.  At this time of year, people are more interested in Turkeys than houses.  My plan was to pickup my turkey at the local butcher in town, imagine my surprise wh...

It seems to be that time of year again...the time to plan for all those gangbuster things that I hope to accomplish next year!   Doesn't seem possible that 2-years have gone by since I got my Real Estate license and first met with Terrie O'Connor.  I remember being impressed by the fact that she ...

                                          Terrie O'Connor Realtors                                   Comparative Statistical Report                                         01/01/05-09/01/05                                            compared to                                         01/01/06-09/...

Existing-home sales eased last month, as did the number of homes available for sale indicating the housing market is stabilizing, according to the National Association of Realtors®.  This is a direct quote from www.realtor.org, their statisticians have a lot more experience than I do in analyzing...

A funny thing happened to me and my family this week...our cable went out.  Not only did we not have TV (other than what TiVO had grabbed before the cable line went dead) but we had no internet access for almost 3-days!  The last email I answered was on Tuesday morning at 8:43am, I went to the de...

I have an outstanding business opportunity listed.  My client is a young man that I met last year as he was searching for a space to lease to startup a tanning salon.  Since I have an understaning of small business and the needs of the startup small business owner, I was able to give him some adv...

In my area of Northern NJ, we are looking at staggering inventories that rise on a daily basis.  Currently in Ridgewood there are over 200 properties on the market; when I first got my license there were 60 and some of the more seasoned agents thought that was quite high.  I'm wondering how many ...

I am an expert in Ridgewood real estate, that sounds very self-serving but in this community everyone knows at least 3 Realtors on a personal level (every young mother has at least one friend who is a Realtor, every homeowner is bombarded with mail from a Realtor farming their area, everyone has ...