Category Archives: My Real Estate Experiences

The Point, Lake Norman’s Ultimate Luxury Community: A 9-Year Study

  I received an email yesterday from a potential Lake Norman home-buyer from Texas asking me if I could provide him with a 10-year history of sales in The Point.  Explaining that the best I could do due to time constraints would be to send him the raw data, I set out to pull up the numbers by [...]
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Why are so many Californians moving to Lake Norman NC?

  When I tell folks around here that my husband and I moved to Lake Norman from California for no other reason than we wanted to, many of them seemed surprised.  So, when I got this update from a great blog in the Palo Alto area  3 Oceans Real Estate, it was just too great an opportunity [...]
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Lake Norman Real Estate: A Real Life Glimpse into Some Lake Norman Foreclosure Transactions

    There are myriad sites online dedicated to detailed explanations about foreclosures. This is not going to be another “how to” guide.  Instead, I am going to try to provide you with some insight and examples of  real hurdles encountered during my recent experiences representing Lake Norman buyers through the process of purchasing foreclosures or bank-owned properties (REOs).  In my next [...]
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Lake Norman Real Estate: Are Foreclosures Driving Our Current Market?

We are bombarded by national and regional housing statistics and prognostications in the news practically every day.  Even our Charlotte Regional Real Estate Association provides monthly data by our Charlotte Mulitple Lisitng Service’s defined areas including Lake Norman.  However, none of these resources provide specific numbers that enable us to get a grasp on how big a role [...]
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Lake Norman Real Estate’s 4th Quarter 2009 Sales Analysis by Price Range

  Lake Norman’s 4th Quarter 2009 Housing Market Overview    While my monthly and bi-weekly market reports for Lake Norman Real Estate provide a good pulse of our housing market, my quarterly summary (as above) and price range analysis (see below)  provide some invaluable insight into important trends that aren’t readily available.  As you can see, our Lake Norman 4th quarter 2009 [...]
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