Archive for July 28th, 2009

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How to Calculate Closing Costs

July 28, 2009

Closing costs?  Yikes.  Complicated subject.  That is, until now.  One of our all-time favorite real estate related websites is www.closing.com and it provides answers to the most detailed of closing cost scenarios.  Here’s how it works:

  1. You tell Closing.com the address of the property you’re looking to buy or sell and the property type (condo, single family, etc).
  2. Plug in the purchase (or sale) price, down payment, interest rate, and whether you intend to occupy this property or rent it out.

Plug in some basic info...

Plug in some basic info...

That’s it.  Closing.com will spit back a monthly payment estimate, and it knows the tax rate for the zip you entered.  Next, it will lead you to some title insurance and home warranty providers.  Select (or shop) policies to arrive at the final screen, your Estimated Closing Costs Report.  Handsomely laid out, this report will detail Read the rest of this entry ?

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Tuesday Tour Show-Stoppers XVI

July 28, 2009

Greetings and welcome to another edition of Tuesday Tour Show-Stoppers!  It was a light week out there for new, striking listings.  But that’s par for the course during July and August.  There will be a rush of new inventory in early September, but that’s still a few weeks out.  In any case, we were able to tour 17 homes today and came back with a couple of keepers.  Before we hand out our 4 and 5 star awards, let’s take a look at the winner of “View of the Week”.

733 Sanchez wins view of the week

733 Sanchez wins view of the week

733 Sanchez narrowly beat out 195 Beacon for View of the Week.  Priced at $1,450,000, it seemed like quite a good deal for the location, size of yard, view, open layout, curb appeal, and its 3BR/3BA floorplan.  A luxe master suite upstairs and 3 sunny decks complete the package.  We’ll have our eyes on this one.

Time to hand out some stars, and keep in mind we are not judging prices.  We are simply highlighting what we believe to be quality real estate in quality locations.  4-stars = Great and 5-stars = Superb.  Click the bold address on any property for more details.

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