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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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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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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Know the Right Questions to Ask Your Pittsburgh Home Builder

Are you thinking about buying a newly constructed Pittsburgh home? If so, there is the right way to go about building your new Pittsburgh home and obviously - a wrong way. Why not have your project get off to the right start by setting your expectations upfront. Once you’ve done that, you’ll be more comfortable with your Pittsburgh custom new home builder. With some forethought and a preplanned budget, here are some basic questions to ask your prospective Pittsburgh new home builder. Better yet, print this list and and we can use it when we sit down with your builder prospects.

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Understanding Today’s Pittsburgh Home Buyer

Pittsburgh home sellers, it’s important you (and your Pittsburgh real estate agent) understand your prospect in light of today’s home selling environment. Today’s Pittsburgh home buyers are far different from those from a few years ago. With the proliferation of real estate-related websites, today’s Pittsburgh home buyers have a wealth of information at their disposal. Buyers have instant access to helpful Pittsburgh property search tools and information-rich resources with the click of a mouse. In fact, I believe we are at the point of “information overload”. But that’s a topic for another blog.

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