Jed and Melanie DeHaven

This is good news for Sellers who are competing against foreclosures in their neighborhoods and for homeowners whose property values have been negatively affected by the low values of foreclosed properties.  As of this posting, there are only 247 Foreclosures in the Charleston area.  This is down again from our last posting back on April ...

The Charleston Trident Association of Realtors has just released a video showing the first quarter results for 2011.  It shows promising things for our local real estate market.  The number of closed sales were up 8.2% in the first quarter from the first quarter of 2010.  The number of homes for sale ...

Spring is in the air and more Buyers are entering the marketplace this time of year than any other.  If you've been thinking of selling your home but, have been waiting for our market to "turn"...your wait me be just about over.  All signs are showing a healthy pick up in the Charleston tri-county market.  The first ...

We blog this morning due to yet another incidence of poor workmanship on a new construction home that would have been detected had a home inspection been performed prior to closing.  Many people think, as we did prior to uncovering so many issues, that a new construction home doesn't need to go through the additional scrutiny of a home ...

Everything that goes on between getting a ratified contract on your home and closing on it is where the proverbial "rubber meets the road", so to speak.  This is where your Real Estate Agent earns his/her keep!  One of the biggest myths in real estate is that a Real Estate Agent's main role is to "sell" the ...

When it comes to choices in Real Estate Agents, you have plenty!  With over 4,500 Real Estate Agents currently licensed in the Charleston, SC area, there's no shortage for you to choose from when it comes time to either BUY or SELL.   Where do you begin?   Here are just a few important tips ...

From January 1st of this year through today, there have been 36 homes sold in the Charleston, SC for over $1 million dollars.  While still down from the peak of the market when 97 homes over the $1 million mark sold during the same period in 2006, this number shows that the luxury home market in the Charleston area is strong.  There ...

As of this posting, there are 326 properties under contract in the Charleston tri-county area that are listed as "possible short sales".  Many of these will never close as a short sale for one of the following reasons: 1.  The home will go into foreclosure before the short sale is approved by the lender. 2.  The seller ...

Regardless of what real estate market you are in, there are 3 things, and 3 things ONLY, that sell a home:    1.  Price    2.  Condition    3.  Exposure Contrary to what real estate agents would like you to believe, one of the 3 things is NOT the real estate agent you've hired to ...

If you are trying to sell your home and contemplating doing an open house, or having your Realtor do one for you, you should know that, statistically speaking, open houses do very little to sell homes! The National Association of Realtors put out a statistic that less than 2% of homes actually sell as a result of an open ...