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Orlando Real Estate, David Welch Real Estate Optimist, @RealtyOptimist

Too Big to Fail or Too Big to Bail (again)

3/10/2010 10:40 AM

Anthony Randazzo with the Reason Foundation wrote a piece for the Washington Times arguing for the dismantling of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. First, I would like to disclose that Anthony was a Sunday School student of mine years ago, so I am very proud to see him doing so well and published in a major [......Read More

Winter Park High School’s Wild Year

3/8/2010 7:59 AM

The 2009-2010 school year has definitely been the year of the Wildcats. I live in Baldwin Park in uptown Orlando, and our high school is Winter Park. As a parent, I could not be more pleased to have my daughters attending the schools in this area. Audubon Elementary, Glenridge Middle and Winter Park High School are [......Read More

Blogging My Way to The Top (of Google)

3/6/2010 8:09 AM

Do not underestimate the power of the pen, or in this case the keyboard. I read for years that the internet was changing our business, and I knew that people were getting more information from the internet. I advertised my listings, and had a full featured website with all kinds of great real estate information. [......Read More

Orlando Real Estate Investment - Cashing In

3/4/2010 7:17 AM

Cash is king as the saying goes, and the table below shows where the smart money is going. Orlando real estate as an investment is very attractive to investors. The table highlights the changes in our marketplace over the last few years. Even though money was very easy in 2005, many people were taking equity lines [......Read More

Falling Prices Article Redux

3/3/2010 2:39 PM

The same Fiserv information has made it’s way to the local newspaper http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-housing-forecast-orlando-20100302,0,5897210.story. I wrote about this the other day when the information was quoted in a Yahoo Real Estate story republished from CNN Money. I did not give it too much attention then, but since it is ...Read More

Home Buyer Tax Credit 2010

3/2/2010 8:20 AM

The home buyer tax credit is counting down again. If you are not aware, the credit was extended and expanded by Congress to include both first time home buyers and repeat buyers. First time buyers can still qualify for a credit of up to $8,000 and repeat buyers can now get up to $6,500. Check [......Read More

Falling Prices

3/1/2010 8:46 AM

You have to love the experts that predict that prices have already fallen. I would guess a lot of people do not read articles very critically that they find in the paper (if anyone still reads the paper) or online. This article was just on Yahoo real estate http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/duck-watch-out-for-falling-home-prices from CNNMoney....Read More

Baldwin Park Sales - So Far So Good

2/24/2010 7:14 AM

Orlando real estate has continued to post strong sales, but prices took a big nosedive in January. The median price for most of 2009 was around $125,000, but dropped to $102,000 last month. So far this month, as I reported yesterday on my blog at www.RealEstateOptimist.com, the prices are up a little to about $107,000. [......Read More

Orlando Real Estate Distressed Sales Numbers 02/22/2010

2/22/2010 4:12 PM

Currently, there are 16,216 active listings in the Orlando marketplace with 1,776 bank owned and 6,056 short sales making up 48.3% of the active inventory. That is a pretty big chunk of the market, but pales in comparison to the percentage of pending and closed sales so far this month. The good news is that [......Read More

Fed Raises Rate

2/19/2010 3:22 PM

The Fed announced an increase in one of their interest rates, so what does that mean to mortgage rates? The Fed rates that you hear so much about are short term interest rates that they charge member banks to borrow money overnight. Banks are required to maintain certain reserves in their accounts, but sometimes find [......Read More