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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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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Stop the Car - I Want to See this Home!

Pittsburgh, PA home buyers are expecting to see an immaculate property the moment they drive up. The property should offer a jaw-dropping first impression that will make any home buyer scream STOP THE CAR - I WANT TO SEE THAT HOUSE! If the lawn has been ignored, the flowerbeds are brimming with weeds, the shrubs are untrimmed and the grease-stained driveway is cluttered with toys, experience has taught me buyers will ask we keep driving. To the buyer, it’s apparent these sellers are not serious about selling their Pittsburgh home anytime soon. If the yard is in this state, one can only imagine the condition of the interior of the home.

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Over the years experience has been a good teacher and I’ve learned many valuable lessons about transacting real estate here in this wonderful area of Peters Township, PA. If you’ve read my bio, you know I come from a long line of Pittsburgh real estate agents. My family has passed down a wealth of advice along the way. First and foremost - I’m not a real estate salesperson. It’s my job to help match buyers to the homes that best “fit” their needs - plain and simple. Second, many of the homes people “fall in love” with don’t appeal to my personal taste….which is fine. We are all different and have different taste and needs.

A Home Matchmaker

I’d like to think of myself as that of a real estate consultant. A real estate professional “matchmaker” who determines the fine details of what you need in a home. Putting my experience and market “insider knowledge” to work for you, I’ll scour the real estate market to locate that perfect home that fits your families wants and needs. Of course, I’ll be acutely aware of your budget too.

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