Susan Buhr's, PDS Real Estate Blog

 Staging a home for sale is different from decorating your home. The main and most important purpose of staging your home for sale is making it appeal to wide range of home buyers. Whereas decorating your home is your personal decorating preferences. Open this article, it gives a lot of insight o...

  I think the first question a new home owner should ask -What is a home warranty?A home warranty is typically a one-year service contract designed to protect the family budget from unexpected, costly repairs on home systems and appliances. What is covered in the plans? There are several plans an...

I love to write about how Ohio housing continues to improve. With comparison to last year October 2012 to 2013 October home sales increased by 8%. The economist say this is a modest increase, but I think any Realtor, builder and home owner will take an 8% increase. Considering just two years ago ...

Several economy events have come in play to slow the housing recovery, but I feel these are temporary or we’ll see very strong housing activity starting late January 2014. These events are/were are tired to the government shut down, high unemployment, higher home loan rates and consumer spending ...

What does the name 'Halloween' mean? The name Halloween (originally spelled Hallowe'en) is a contraction of All Hallows Even, meaning the day before All Hallows Day (better known today as All Saints Day), a Catholic holiday commemorating Christian saints and martyrs observed since the early Middl...

I just blogging about about positive signs in our real estate market. This is very good news- Central Ohio home sales for the first two months of 2013 were up 19.6 percent (2,878), compared to last yare (2,406). There were 1,452 home sales in February, which is 14.9 percent higher than February 2...

WOW, I would have never thought the housing market would continue to improve. Normally this time of year it slows down given that it hasn’t and along with the market on the upswing interest rates continue to be all time lows at  and below 3.75%, I think  it’s  a good time to think about selling o...

  Bedrooms: 4 – 3 up and 1 down Large living room with gas log/wood fire place Plenty of storage Bathrooms: 3 full Dining room walks out to 3 season room Garage: 2 car attached – work shop Large eat-in kitchen Fenced yard 3 season room Large family wood fire place Large utility room Side balcony&...

Home sales during the most active time of the year showed impressive gains over last year and were the highest since 2007 when the housing market began its descent after the boom. Open this link for further details on our improving  housing market.   http://www.columbusrealtors.com/NewsDetail.as...

Central Ohio housing sales were up in February for the second month in a row. The 1,215 sales showed an 8.0 percent increase over the previous month and a 5.0 percent increase over February of 2011. http://www.columbusrealtors.com/NewsDetail.aspx?article=51675136 Call PDS Real Estate for home buy...