Job Opportunities trigger Short Sales

By
Real Estate Agent - Keller Williams Towne Square Realty
Job Opportunities trigger Short Sales
RECENT BLOG POSTS
We hope you had a great holiday season and that 2013 holds lots of success for you. When it comes to real estate, however, our wishes for your success are tempered with the reality of our local markets .       Kelly Holmquist discusses real estate at a recent workshop   You’ll be hearing from the...
01/03/2013
  Realtor Kelly Holmquist Offers Three Bits Of Advice On Buying Or Selling   A Home After Hurricane Sandy       LONG VALLEY, N.J. -- As power is restored to Northwest Jersey homes and homeowners assess and recover from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, some will discover that they are buying or sell...
11/19/2012
LONG VALLEY, N.J. – Shhhh. Don’t read this too loudly yet….but it appears that more and more experts believe that the housing market recovery is finally here. Those of us at The Holmquist Team don’t want to jinx things…but we agree.   Those experts are drawing that conclusion based on how well ho...
10/09/2012
  New Website Fights to Preserve Homeownership Opportunities For All of Us       LONG VALLEY, N.J. – Whether you own a home, or you’re a renter who would like to be a homeowner someday, a series of legal proposals and events are threatening long-held ideas about home ownership. Holmquist Team mem...
08/30/2012
  Market Update: More Evidence of a Stabilizing Market   A national housing index based on the number of contracts signed by people buying houses rose to its highest level in two years last week, generating more assurances that the real estate market is stabilizing and the time to buy or sell a h...
08/03/2012
Program in Mine Hill Explains Short Sales as an Alternative to Foreclosure Realtor-Attorney Team Specializes in “Shorts”   (Note: Realtor Kelly Holmquist talks about changes in foreclosures and an option to foreclosures in a video here.)   Real estate experts are predicting an increase in foreclo...
06/07/2012
Holmquist Team, Other Realtors, Will See More Short Sales In Coming Days For those swamped by their mortgages, short sales may help avoid the coming tide of new foreclosures. Although the news media and real estate blogs have been talking about the improving real estate market, there’s an unpleas...
05/24/2012
  Realtor Kelly Holmquist recommends planting brightly colored flowers to help homes for sale sell more quickly. LONGVALLEY– It’s summer, and houses for sale are popping up like dandelions. Making a home standout in the summer means staging it so it’s the most attractive-looking home on your bloc...
05/14/2012
With the Housing Market Warming Up, Perhaps It’s Time for You to Jump In   If you’ve been wondering whether it’s time to dive into the housing market, a bunch of recent headlines seem to be saying, “C’mon in. The water’s fine.” A lot of people have wanted to sell their home or buy a new home beca...
04/02/2012
When It Comes To Mortgages, Stick With the People You Know If you’re buying a home, your Realtor will help find a mortgage. A friend of mine, Attorney Larry Fox of Chester, gives his clients a warning that’s worth repeating: Stick with mortgage lenders who are local and who you know.   There's mo...
03/23/2012
Rainer
11,172

Kelly Holmquist

local_phone(908) 867-7109
smartphone(908) 451-4676
Contact The Author
Job opportunities beckoning from a distance are exciting, but in this house market, those selling a home consider their likelihood of success a major part of the decision whether or not to pursue one of those opportunities. An experienced Realtor can help you make that decision. Recent figures released by the Otteau Valuation Group show some improvement in the real estate market since last year in Morris County. For instance, last month, there were 483 homes sold in Morris County. A year ago, there were only 439 homes sold during May. Inventory is lower and there are fewer sellers for each buyer. Those statistics don’t mean much if you’re living in a home you purchased at the top of the market that will never sell for a high enough sum to off the mortgage. That can mean a quick end to pursuing a dream job out of town. That was the situation for Kathy and Bruce, who have a business and a home in Succasunna. They have a terrific opportunity waiting for them in Derby, Kan. The couple knows they can’t sell their home for what they paid for it, and they are considering working with The Holmquist Team and attorney Marty Egan to use a short sell to sell their home. “We have questions about the effect on our credit scores,” said Bruce, who will be meeting with us to discuss such issues. The key for people like Kathy and Bruce is to find a Realtor and an attorney that they trust. They need advice from both, working as a team on your behalf, to decide whether they can sell their home through aggressive marketing, keep and rent the home, sell the home through a short sale or pursue another alternative. All signs seem to be pointing to an economy that is slowly beginning to improve. That can mean the creation of new opportunities. If you’re thinking about pursuing them, if you want to get out from under an oppressive mortgage, or if you need to sell your home for any other reason, work a Realtor to determine if selling your home will be a challenge. For instance, if you purchased your home 30 years ago, you don’t have a mortgage and you want to sell it and move to an active-adult community somewhere, your home needs a relatively simple but professional marketing program by a Realtor who understands the current market. But if your home is “under water,” meaning it isn’t worth what you owe on it, you may face special challenges, even if you are current with your mortgage. That’s when you need a Realtor and an attorney with extensive experience with distressed properties. With interest rates low and the market coming to life, now really is the time to put your home on the market. If you need help determining how best to do that, please give us a call.