Nordstrom Opening First Store in the Pittsburgh Area Soon

Located about 40 minutes (20 miles) north of Peters Township, Pittsburgh’s first Nordstrom department store will be opening in late October at the Ross Park Mall. If you have ever shopped at a Nordstrom you have experienced what many consider the finest customer service a retailer can deliver. I happen to like the style of custom service this retail department store is recognized for delivering. By-the-way, if think you can measure up to the high standards of customer service Nordstrom is recognized for, they are hiring 250 employees for their new Pittsburgh store located at the Ross Park Mall.

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For Your Next Pittsburgh Home Address!

In case you missed it, CENTURY 21 has been taking tremendous strides recently to ramp up its exposure particularly to a new segment of home buyers. Obvious areas C-21 has focused on recently is in its TV ad campaign and updates to its website. One of the lines I really like from the TV ad is the one that says “CENTURY 21 is Your Web Address for Your New Home Address.” This coupled with the recent total revamp of the corporate website is exciting. Using traditional media like TV coupled with investment in new media is important for our franchise to remain viable and competitive. Plus, our franchise needs to be speaking to a new audience - those younger buyers who are members of the Gen Y and Gen X generations.

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Delivering Passionate Pittsburgh Real Estate services for Families

It never fails that I receive an email or a phone call from a family who is moving to Pittsburgh. I think it’s because people visit my Pittsburgh real estate website and instantly realize I focus on helping families move to Pittsburgh. They either connect with Relo, my cute little rollie pollie character, or they sense from reading about me that I’m a family guy too.

Connecting with Pittsburgh-bound Families

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Smart Pittsburgh Home Buyers Use the Internet to Search Before Taking the Wheel

With the price of gas north of $4.00 a gallon, smart Pittsburgh home buyers are using the power of the Internet before getting behind the wheel of their car to drive by homes for sale in Pittsburgh. This is especially true if the car you are driving is a gas guzzler. In fact, here is a short list of easy to use property search tools you can use to save yourself a little time and money at the pump when searching for your next Pittsburgh home:

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We Focus on Families Moving to Pittsburgh

If you’ve ever visited my Pittsburgh real estate website, it’s easy to see I enjoy helping families buy and sell homes in the Washington County area. I even asked our real estate marketing partner Dakno Marketing to design a family-friendly Pittsburgh online resource that included easy to use MLS property search tools, articles and even added an adorable character named “RELO” so kids moving with mom and dad could ask questions about buying and selling Pittsburgh real estate. It’s all about providing families the meaningful resources to make their move to Pittsburgh much easier.

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Here is a snapshot of the recent newspaper headlines on the state of the Pittsburgh real estate market. Do you recognize a pattern here?

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It still might be to soon to tell but at some point the supply of homes for sale in Pittsburgh is bound decrease (hit bottom). If what I learned from my economics 101 class remains true, it is at that point that Pittsburgh home prices should begin to inch up (the law of supply and demand). This should cause Pittsburgh home buyers who have been sitting on the sidelines to wake up and take action!

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Talk about a weird scenario, for the month of April, Pittsburgh real estate sales continued to decline by 13.2% compared to last April while the median value of homes for sale in the 5-county region actually rose by 3.7% (annualized appreciation since 2000). Pittsburgh real estate data supplied by RealSTATs, a South-side based real estate information company.

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Past Experiences Can Color Your View

For many area home buyers, the Pittsburgh real estate market conjures many emotions. They range from dreaded fear to pure exhilaration. Having helped many, many families buy their first Pittsburgh home and more experienced buyers purchase “move-up” properties, I can honestly say the way buyers approach their purchase is often “colored” by previous financial experiences. If you have been juggling your 401K lately and your account has been “smacked” by less than favorable fund buying decisions, you might be inclined to have a more pessimistic view of the prospect of buying a home. Those with more positive past experiences often see the current Pittsburgh real estate market “glass” as half full with opportunity to get a great deal on a home! Either way, don’t let your emotions keep you paralyzed.

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How to Compete with Copycat Pittsburgh Homes

If you live in one those Pittsburgh neighborhoods where all the homes seem to look alike, it really is important your Washington County home stand out in the crowd. Especially now that there are so many for sale signs sprouting up in our springtime Pittsburgh real estate market. So what are the secrets to making your home grab the attention of Pittsburgh home buyers with so many look-alike homes on the market?

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