Chris Griffith

For the second time this week I was asked by a buyer what that our real estate market is averaging for the percentage off of list price. That question still surprises me because the real estate market has had a ...

Where our northern friends list their homes for the summer, a lot of the Southwest Florida real estate is listed in the fall. Those fresh real estate listings are going to be priced according to recent comparable sales and competing ...

There’s a fabulous little aisle in the Office Max store. Maybe you’ve seen it when you were looking for something you needed just enough to cross that $50 threshold in order to use the $10 off coupon. For you do-it-yourselfers, ...

The biggest issues both sellers and buyers have when dealing with and understanding the intricacies of short sales is how the appraisal process can effect the transaction.

You have to come from a place of yes to be involved in the real estate business. You just do. These days, real estate agents advise purchasers of how the sale process will work, usually in realistic detail. There are ...

E-mail answer bag! Yee-haw! Q. Are you a shill for NABOR? A. No, I am not a shill or even a member of Naples Area Board of Realtors nor have I ever been. If you don’t like what I write, ...

A buyer could have purchased dozens of homes throughout their lifetime but a short sale will be the first time they get to purchase one on a hay ride. It really doesn’t matter how much a buyer or seller is ...

How does one eat an elephant? The answer is one bite at a time. There were so many distressed properties on the market at one time that is was almost insurmountable to believe that it could ever be behind us.

Whenever there is massive confusion and emotional turmoil, there will be people trying to take advantage of the situation. There are people preying on those who are in financial distress and losing their homes by acting like they’re going to ...

First of all, we’re not all going to die. Well, eventually we will die, but probably not from exposure to real estate. Second, this too shall pass. The turning points in the real estate recovery are s-l-o-w and when they ...

Whether it’s the well meaning acquaintance or just an overly involved neighbor, someone, somewhere in the neighborhood or complex is going to know when you’re preparing to put your real estate on the market and approach you with an offer.

It’s not the bigger, more obvious things that cause trouble. It’s usually the small, unsuspected anomaly that catches the absentee homeowner by surprise. Typically, when folks are peeling out of town they buckle up their home or condo and leave ...

Southwest Florida is the land of turnkey furnished real estate sales. It’s common to close on a property and have the ability to walk into it carrying a bag of groceries and a toothbrush and spend the night without needing ...

Several weeks ago I walked though a field of cairns on a trail. What’s more shocking than the wild notion of outside exercise is the idea of a positive message formed with rocks. It was just a river bed of ...

There are times when we discover things along the long road to house hunting. Being inside someone else’s home and in their personal space is a strange place to be sometimes.