http://www.fredericksburgrealty.com/renews Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:53:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  GET READY, SET, GO…… Sellers are you ready for the Spring Selling Season?  Winter isn’t over and spring won’t start for another 10-days, but the spring real estate season has started.   Pending real estate sales in Gillespie County are up 35% year-to-date over 2009.  Closed sales are up an astounding 58% over ... http://www.fredericksburgrealty.com/renews/2010/03/10/real-estate-sales-are-up/ Take a drive to the hill country and Fredericksburg, Texas this spring.  We should have a banner bluebonnet and wildflower season.  Enjoy these hill country wildflower pictures in the link below.  Drop by for a visit to our office.  Sherman D. Durst http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=152179&id=288750519476&ref=mf http://www.fredericksburgrealty.com/renews/2010/03/10/texas-hill-country-blubonnets-coming-soon/ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fredericksburg-Realty/288750519476 http://www.fredericksburgrealty.com/renews/2010/03/08/be-a-fan-of-fredericksburg-realty-on-face-book/    THE TRUE MARKET VALUE OF YOUR HOME IS NOT: What you have in it, What you need out of it, What you want for it, What it appraised for, What you heard your neighbor’s house sold for, What the tax office value is, How much you have it insured for, Based on your memories and treasures, Based on ... http://www.fredericksburgrealty.com/renews/2010/03/05/your-home-isis-not-worth/           In the world of real estate today, there is the old tried & true ways to market and advertise, just as there are many new ways to market and advertise.  The old way may include putting up the sign, listing an ad in the newspaper and waiting by the phone.  ... http://www.fredericksburgrealty.com/renews/2010/02/24/what-makes-a-property-sell/  Gillespie County stats for the Week of February 10, 2010: 3-closings, 13 price changes and 4 properties went under contract.  Thus far in 2010, the local MLS shows Gillespie County with 13 closings and 43 pending contract.   Expecting a great spring filled with wildflowers due to the much needed rains of ... http://www.fredericksburgrealty.com/renews/2010/02/23/real-estate-is-still-alive-in-fredericksburg-texas-gillespie-county/  There are a lot of different thought processes in the current real estate market.  Some Buyers think they should wait for interest rates to go lower.  WARNING:  the current interest rates are the lowest rates in over 40-years.  They are not going to go lower.  All industry information we are ... http://www.fredericksburgrealty.com/renews/2010/02/22/buyers-don%e2%80%99t-miss-the-boat/  As Americans in the past 15 years,  we experienced  the longest time period of wealth and equity appreciation in the history of our country.  The individual asset growth was shared by even those who didn’t participate as the value of most everything went up.  With the financial collapses of the ... http://www.fredericksburgrealty.com/renews/2010/02/20/it%e2%80%99s-all-about-the-future-now/  Real estate companies spend a lot of time working on their ads to find the right buzz words: Won’t Last Long; New on the Market;  Classic Style… We have seen a lot of changes through the years in trends and in what Buyers & Sellers expect from their real estate company.  The Internet ... http://www.fredericksburgrealty.com/renews/2010/02/20/real-estate-in-the-hill-countryold-fashioned-way/  We’ve seen folk, rock ‘n roll, outlaw, disco, rap, Muhammad Ali, the Beatles, KISS, George Strait, hot pants, pet rocks, a man on the moon, long gas lines at the pump, recession, inflation, republicans, democrats, droughts and floods, climate change, Vietnam, building booms, building busts, 21% interest rates and 4% ... http://www.fredericksburgrealty.com/renews/2010/02/19/fredericksburg-realty-has-been-selling-the-texas-hill-country-since-1965/