According to Home Gain's annual survey there are a few easy and inexpensive ways a seller can make their property resale value increase. The marketing company surveyed Real Estate professionals to find which do-it yourself projects gave sellers the biggest increase home's value. Below are the top six projects that made the list. [...]

I think we all have heard the expression “Buyers are liars”, well I don't subscribe to that. If that were true, there would be no Real Estate transactions. However, I do think that there are several misconceptions that Buyers do have. Here are the most common Buyer misconceptions in my experience 1. [...]

Looking for the Easter Bunny in Winter Park? Look no further! The Easter Bunny will host the Annual Easter Egg Hunt held at Hideaway Park in downtown Winter Park - Saturday, April 23rd at 11:00. Thisevent is free for kids of all ages and will have an Easter Egg Hunt along with several other activities in the Park. The ages will [...]

For the first time since the recession started we have seen an increase in the average sales price of condos in the Winter Park Area (includes Fraser). For 2010, the average sales price of condos finished down by 9%. The first quarter of 2011 is up by 44% over the first quarter of 2010.This increase is probably the result of a few higher [...]

The first quarter activity for bank owned properties, in comparison with 2010, in the Winter Park, Grand Lake and Granby areas varies depending on the property type. There is a definite increase in listings. In Granby there are currently 12 Bank owned homes and townhomes available last year there were 7. We have seen 3 homes sold in Granby [...]

Real Estate of Winter Park just published a Resource Guidefor Grand County. It's a comprehensive list of names & numbers to help you with all of your real estate needs, from finding a plumber to an interior designer. Throughout the years we have worked with many great people, in many different trades and services here in Grand County. We [...]

Our 2010 Annual Real Estate Market Report is now available! And it's better than ever with an easier to read format, colored graphs and charts, neighborhood market analysis and so much more! Printed copies are available,so stop by our office to get yours- next to Pizza Hut in downtown Winter Park. Or give your favorite [...]

With April 15th right around the corner it seems that we are always racking our brains and scrambling to get all the paperwork we need to file our taxes. For those of you that own a second home in the Winter Park area, Grand County (or anywhere for that matter), you know that gathering this paperwork can make doing your taxes even more [...]

With two elementary schools on the chopping block, their community responded in a big way. The East Grand County School District had given a community group until this past Tuesday to come up with $500,000 to save Fraser Valley andGrand Lakeelementaries, and that night the group showed up with the money in hand, buying the two schools at [...]

Western ski resorts swept the OnTheSnow rankings of the top 10 destinations for families and college students for the 2011 North American spring break season. Rankings were compiled by OnTheSnow.com's team of analysts, using "a sophisticated algorithm that scored the North American resorts on a variety of factors based on website's traffic [...]