Kansas City Real Estate Network

Nearly 74% of RE/MAX Associates listed or sold distressed properties in the fourth quarter of 2009. In fact, 40% said more than half of their transaction sides involved distressed property during that period. (Source: Mainstreet Vote Now, Jan. 2010) Blog post written by: Dowell Taggart Team of RE/MAX Best Associates.View Distressed Sales, Short ...

  Kansas City Real Estate Foreclosure Homes for Sale:  When you search foreclosure homes for sale, have you ever thought.... “Why can't I find that home?”        “I know that home is for ...

Does a foreclosure in my Kansas City neighborhood affect my homes' appraisal...Two distinct markets? Part 2  In part 1, we discussed why appraisers are having so much difficulty determining the affect of a distressed property sale on the values of surrounding homes... Still, the buyer is paying a premium not to have to deal with the ...

Does a foreclosure in my Kansas City neighborhood affect my homes' appraisal? Part 1   According to USA Today, across the country, agents and home builders are complaining too many appraisals and appraisers are coming in low, canceling deals. The National Association of Realtors says nearly one in four of its members has reported ...

Does a foreclosure in my Kansas City neighborhood affect my homes' appraisal...Two distinct markets? Part 2  In part 1, we discussed why appraisers are having so much difficulty determining the affect of a distressed property sale on the values of surrounding homes... Still, the buyer is paying a premium not to have to deal with the ...

Does a foreclosure in my Kansas City neighborhood affect my homes' appraisal? Part 1   According to USA Today, across the country, agents and homebuilders are complaining too many appraisals and appraisers are coming in low, cancelling deals. The National Association of Realtors says nearly one in four of its members has reported clients ...

 Top 25 Kansas City Real Estate Foreclosure List Including Properties in Olathe and Overland Park I have scoured the local Heartland MLS system in search of Kansas City's Top 25 Real Estate Foreclosures. After scouring through hundreds of foreclosures I have formed my Top 25 Real Estate Foreclosure List. Click here to view my Top 25 ...

The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday released a plan to speed up and encourage Short Sales as a means to help families avoid foreclosure. We've been offering Short Sale proposals to public officials for over a year, and although the new guidelines aren't everything we were hoping for, they do represent a significant improvement over the ...

To view 30 Kansas City real estate foreclosures throughout Kansas City, go to: Kansas City Real Estate Foreclosures  With over 200 Kansas City real estate foreclosures we can find the right real estate foreclosure for you. Let the Dowell Taggart Team know what you are looking for, today! Visit our Kansas City Real Estate Website or call us ...

Wow.  Where we live and how we live....What drives us?  Are we, each of us, the sum total of our credit scores?  These scores affect our ability to rent a car, acquire and keep property and casualty insurance...open a bank account...and for 32% of all employers, the ability to choose the "best" candidate for the job. ...

In his work, Conspiracy of the Rich, Rich Dad entrepenour, Robert Kiosaki, discusses the fact that during our current crisis on Wall Street, wealth didn't evaporate, it just changed hands....WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH REAL ESTATE? Your equity, your value, may come back....If it does, and that's a big if, respected economists are ...

[photo:listing:2330800] Huge 5 Bedroom Home • 2,434 sq. ft., 3 bath, 5 bdrm single story - $205,000 - Incredible Price Round Hill, Overland Park  -  Where else can you find an Overland Park 5 bedroom home in a subdivision with a full country club. The country club includes an inground pool, 5 tennis courts and a kids play ...

...Martin, what are the primary advantages for buying a home?" Chris and I get the question all the time...."Should I buy or rent?"  The answer is simple, maybe. There are three primary reasons to buy.... 1-Mortgage Interest Tax Deduction 2-First-Time Homebuyers Assistance, $8000 Tax Credit 3-You are sick and tired of ...

I'm standing in line at my tennis club last Thursday, (yeah, OK, sniff sniff, just tennis courts)....Guy in front of me is interested in buying a home, but wants to wait for rates to go down...further.  Huh? Wow.  "Go down further"....Interest rates are at near 40 year lows for 30 year fixed mortgages. ....And home prices ...

...and the gal in front of me orders a double half-caff something or other, with whipped topping, smothered in super glue.... That's what I believed I had heard; truth is, I have selective perception...Didn't hear half of what she said, because I was ready to order plain-old coffee, and I wasn't paying all that much attention.  I ...

As Chris wrote to many of our clients, the answer sounds a lot like a contradiction.....With foreclosure rates falling in Kansas City, interest rates also falling, prices still falling....a little.... Sounds like "blue sky" to me....The truth is...Messy, complicated....Our market is still strong for sales as well as purchases, and ...

Recently I wrote regarding the bottoming of our real estate market, and the corresponding dip in interest rates....Let's see, low housing costs, as well as low interest rates; HUM? And many of you questioned whether or not this is a good time to buy.... When WE answer, it sounds self-serving, so I thought I'd publish a consumer's ...

Sales on Olathe, Kansas homes have slowed, and now is a great time to purchase your own little slice of Heaven...Kansas City Real Estate.... Check out this article..... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081223/bs_nm/us_usa_economy_housing1 Is it time to seriously look for that dream home?  Should we talk?   

Today I worked with an out of town real estate investor. The couple hours we searched on our local MLS for distressed properties for sale. We searched foreclosures, pre-foreclosures, REO's, RELO's and HUD properties. My client was amazed at the good deals we found. Here are some of the real estate deals we found. We even found a bank owned ...

For the past 3 weeks I have been showing 8 groups of people homes for sale in Kansas City. At first I would show start by showing them homes for sale in a 4-5 hour period. After I got a grasp of what they were looking for, I would hunt the Kansas City MLS for homes that would fit their search criteria and e-mail them the new listings. When the ...