Courtesy of the Emerald Hills Railway: Halloween Night Train Rides! Saturday, Oct. 31st, 5-8:30 pm FREE Invite the young and the old, the dead or alive and climb aboard our locomotive to encircle an atmosphere of colorful lights, a black light loading zone, and festive scenes. Friends, family and neighbors welcome! All ages can ride! This event is [...]
In the last 90 days, a little less than a dozen homes in Mt. Carmel have closed escrow. Looking at how the sale prices compared to original price, the average is that homes are getting 95% of their original asking price. Of course, remember, this is an average. The “range” of all those homes is [...]
So there’s this new law affecting the real estate and mortgage industry, called the HVCC – short for “Home Valuation Code of Conduct”, which went into effect last month, and is the byproduct of a legal settlement between NY attorney general Andrew Cuomo and Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. Here’s how it was “supposed” to [...]
(straight from the city’s Public Communications Manager Malcolm Smith) This year’s 4th of July spectacular, brought to you by the Peninsula Celebration Association, will be another in the long tradition of offering the very best 4th of July event on the peninsula. All the details are at www.parade.org, the home page of the non-profit Peninsula Celebration [...]
It seems like just yesterday – ok, maybe 2 or 3 years ago – when a new listing in Mt. Carmel that came on the market with a price tag higher than $1M didn’t raise an eyebrow. Heck, there were even some bordering close to $2M that I thought “well, if someone’s willing to pay [...]
Tales of my disappearance from the blogosphere have been greatly exaggerated. Finally, after more than a quarter of being just crazily busy (recession, what recession?), your friendly Mount Carmel neighborhood blogger is “Back in the Saddle”, to quote one of my favorite Aerosmith songs. Has nothing been going on in Mount Carmel? Apart from the [...]
Well, I guess ‘recent’ being a relative term. There’s currently a good handful of homes for sale in the Mt. Carmel –15 by my count — really nice ones too, at many different price points — from a comfortable 2/1 for $869K (181 Myrtle), to a gorgeous Craftsman for $1.398M (at 1627 Brewster). But, so [...]
Got a new TV for Christmas? How about a new game system or microwave, cell phone, or DVD Player/ Recorder? Don’t know what to do with the old ones? Bring all your old TVs, along with other broken, unused and/or unwanted electronics to the Mt. Carmel parking lot – 301 Grand St., Redwood [...]
Income tax, sales tax, estate tax, excise tax, alternative minimum tax…and just when you thought you’d paid them all…along comes your property tax bill as a homeowner. But did you know that the National Taxpayers Union estimates that as many as 60% of homes are assessed for too high of a value, resulting in an [...]
As a follow on to yesterday’s post on overpriced listings, I came across this very well written Forbes article, which, if you’re selling your home, you should definitely soak it up (and yes, I did “borrow” their picture for yesterday’s post as well.) Here are the five tell-tale signs: Your home is priced well above neighboring properties. [...]
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