Leave a comment » BallenIsles Homes for Sale - Open House at 109 San MaritaI'll be featuring 109 San Marita Way in BallenIsles today at an Open House from 1-3 PM.
This 4000 + sq ft home is situated on the 10th hole of BallenIsles' South Course. For more information please call me at 561-282-7406 or, even better, drop by the home later this afternoon.
http://www.palmbeachrealestateandloans.com/004EE4
Posted on August 16, 2009 11:41:31 by Marc.Blasi - View Profile
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Leave a comment » Rising to the Next Level in Palm Beach Gardens Luxury Real Estate-Hello again! I'm sorry to have virtually disappeared for the last 10 days, but I have a great reason- I've moved up to the next level in Palm Beach Gardens luxury real estate by joining up with Waterfront Properties & Club Communities and I've been incredibly busy. I'll still be working with Buyers in all of the area's golf / country clubs, but I am now the company's exclusive listing agent for BallenIsles. I'll have a lot more information for you all in the next few days.
In the meantime, if you have any questions about BallenIsles homes for sale, please don't hesitate to call me at 561-282-7406. http://www.palmbeachrealestateandloans.com/004EAE
Posted on July 30, 2009 22:00:10 by Marc.Blasi - View Profile
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3 comments » There Are Some Great Deals in PGA National Right Now.................Let me be blunt- Are you the type of person that takes advantage of great deals, or do you WAIT and then get MAD when someone else ACTS? Unfortunately, too many people fall into the second category. Recently I was dealing with a family that was looking to purchase a home in Palm Beach Gardens- specifically PGA National. They had some pretty strict requirements on what the property HAD to have, so their choices were pretty limited. (BTW -they were looking at homes for sale that were well within their means so the availability of funds was not a question.) I brought them to a home - before we even went in the door I told them that the house was under-priced and that it would not last long. Very very few homes are under-priced these days as we all know! The loved the home and wanted to make an offer right away. GREAT! Nope. These real estate 'pros' knew what the home was worth (on-line auto estimate, of course). Their initial bid was very low, but the owner did move a tiny bit. I made it very clear that they would, without a doubt, lose the home unless they raised their offer significantly. Against my advice they waited another day and made a very minor increase to their offer. It didn't matter - someone else had bought the house in the meantime. They were furious. Same people, same area, another home - I had already talked to the listing Agent and told him that if the price on that particular home dropped that I had someone that would probably take it. He got me a few days later and told me that the price on the home had, in fact, dropped A LOT. I called the couple back and gave them the good news - with the warning that the home would not last long..... "Well, that's great! Let us think it over for a few days....." The next morning someone else made a full-price cash offer. I did contact them to let them know that they lost out yet again. It's simple, Those Who Wait, Lose. Call me if you're really ready - 561-282-7406. http://www.palmbeachrealestateandloans.com/004E83
Posted on July 14, 2009 15:32:57 by Marc.Blasi - View Profile
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Leave a comment » Palm Beach Gardens Luxury Real Estate Summer Special - 113 San Marita Way in BallenIslesFrom now through 7/31/2009 you can buy 113 San Marita Way in BallenIsles and get a full golf membership and a golf cart at no extra cost!
It really is simple - to expedite the sale of 113 San Marita Way, the Owners are giving away their full golf membership at BallenIsles Golf/Country Club AND the Buyer will also get a golf cart. Not a bad deal....... BallenIsles has been ranked as one of the top 5 Most Highly Thought of Residential Club Communities in America by the Platinum Club and now you have the opportunity to purchase one of the best homes in the subdivision and get a bonus.
Call me at 561-282-7406 to set up a time to see the property.
http://www.palmbeachrealestateandloans.com/004E45
Posted on June 22, 2009 10:02:38 by Marc.Blasi - View Profile
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Leave a comment » How Much is Your Palm Beach Gardens Real Estate REALLY Worth?You're interested in finding out the value of a particular home in the Palm Beach Gardens area.
The reason doesn't matter - you just want to know the value of Property 'A' and you need the figure to be as accurate as possible.
Without a doubt, the BEST way is to hire a Professional Appraiser
For any one Appraiser to be successful he/she needs to be as accurate as possible. Valuation is all that they do so if they don't do their very best, they won't be around the business for long. BTW, if financing is involved, using an Appraiser is your ONLY choice.
Next best would be to get a CMA from a Real Estate Agent or Broker
They will take a look at your home and compare it to the most recent sales (w/in the last 6 months) of the most comparable properties or COMPS. It's very important that you use someone that specializes in the area you're interested in because they have detailed local knowledge.
Finally, we've arrived at the WORST possible choice - automated on-line property valuations.
People like to use them because they are anonymous, free and quick. However they are incredibly inaccurate! I'm not going to mention a specific company because they are all bad.
As an example, let's specifically look at Palm Beach County. By one site's own admission, only 54% of the homes sold in the County come in within 20% of the site's estimated value. In other words, their values are off by more than 20% in 46% of the cases! Granted, garbage in, garbage out - if the site hasn't collected enough, accurate data they can't be expected to be too accurate. The problem crops up when the general public runs a search on one of the sites and takes the value as the end-all-be-all.
If you want to see just how inaccurate the values are, try several of the sites the spread of values on the same piece of property will make you laugh (or cry).
When dealing with what will probably be the biggest purchase of your life you need ACCURATE, not QUICK.
Call me @ 561-282-7406
http://www.palmbeachrealestateandloans.com/004E3F
Posted on June 19, 2009 14:00:31 by Marc.Blasi - View Profile
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