Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Look Out for the Retirees

Just read an article that South Carolina has now won out as the Retirement State of choice for Baby Boomers, this is a huge generation of people that are all about to begin retiring.

They interviewed 1,000 Baby Boomers across the United States and said which State do you want to retire to, and for the First time we beat out Florida, the list went like this

1. South Carolina
2. North Carolina
3. Florida

and then who cares who is after that.

With all of the great news about our area recently in the press NOW is the time to buy and take advantage of the foreclosures and short sales and get something at a deal before prices double again.

Homes are now selling and sales are way up but this is just the beginning.

Our First Home Ported Cruise Ship left earlier this week for its inaugeral cruise out of Charleston with Celebrity and then the Carnival Ship starts in April or May. I think they under estimate the impact that these ships will have on our area. People will come to catch the ship, stay a day or two before or after and fall in love with Charleston and then go back and make their plans to move here.

What an exciting time to be in Real Estate !!

Call me soon so you don't wait and say I wish I would have bought back in 2010 !!

Also, if you know of any agressive, young real estate agents that are willing to work hard and would want to make $100,000 per year, I have two openings on my team that need to be filled immediately so tell them to call me.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Sales Are Up Again

I don't know about you but every where I go I see that sales are up. I was just at lunch at Wild Wings and on the News they had in background it said housing sales were up 10% and that builders were having their first profitable quarters in years with housing stocks going crazy on the news.

I got back to my computer and low and behold the stats are out for our market, in Charleston sales for December 2009 were up 30% over December 2008 !! YEAH !!

And Other Headlines over past few months read "October 2009: Sales Up 31%", "September 2009: Residential Sales Increase 7%", "August 2009: Residential Market Reflects End Of An Active Summer Season", "July 2009: Residential Real Estate Sales Increase 4% From One Year Ago", etc.

Do you see the trend ??

It is just like in 2006 and 2007 when all they talked about in the media was the housing bubble and mortgage defaults in 2007 and 2008, well NOW in 2009 they started going positive and you can really see the numbers and feel the activity. The market is now alive and well, yes prices are down and there are foreclosures and short sales to contend with but with rates at all time lows you could not ask for a better combination to make it the "BEST TIME TO BUY EVER"

So call me or a member of my team today at RE/MAX where our sales were up 48 % in 2009 over 2008 and in the last quarter of 2009 we were up over 200% over the last quarter of 2008.

You can reach me at 843-270-6455 or my team at 843-330-2500 anytime or visit www.DavidWertan.com and buy now so you don't look back and say "Oh, I wish I would have bought ....... "