Every House Has A Buyer...It Just Takes Time For Them To Meet.

Every House Has A Buyer...It Just Takes Time For Them To Meet.

I truly believe that no matter how long a house has been on the market, no matter how many agents list it and lose it or how many showings it has had, every house on the market out there has a buyer somewhere.

The wait can be unbearable no doubt and not everyone can afford to do it or have the backbone to have a house on the market for a couple of years. Some houses just sit and sit and the best efforts of the real estate agent come up with nothing. Sometimes the agent is to blame by not marketing the house to it’s full potential or by listing the house with incorrect information, not the correct size, wrong number of bedrooms, saying the house is in the city limits and subject to higher property taxes when in fact it’s not.

Why won't my house sell?

There are many reasons why a house won't sell but if it’s been on the market for a couple of years it’s probably one or two big reasons. I recently showed a house to my clients that has been on the market for 880 days. The house appeared to have everything my clients were looking for and it was priced about right if a little high, but we were fascinated as to what we would find. Well we found nothing out of the ordinary and so my client asked if we could show it again with her husband this time. He loved the house and they were talking about an offer, as I was checking the doors to leave, in the basement I noticed a pipe coming out of the floor and I immediately realized why the house had not sold. It was a Radon remediation system that was pulling Radon gas from under the house and venting it above the roof. My clients had not heard of Radon but once they did the house was off the list.

My listing that wouldn't sell was a beautiful home in Clayton but it had one overriding factor that came up time and time again and that was the layout. It was built in 1993 and had lots of rooms, it had a dining room, a living room, a kitchen and they all had walls, not what today's buyer is looking for. It had gold faucets (not real) but again not what sells these days. My sellers were not living there, it was paid for and they used it a couple of times a year so  there was no urgency to sell.

Does changing agents sometime help a house to sell?

I should point out that I was the fourth agent to list the house and all other attempts had failed. It was originally listed by the first agent for $349,000 in the height of the recession in January of 2009 and I got it in May 2011 and would only take the listing if the sellers agreed to price it under $300,000 which they did.We sold it two years later for $215,000. By this time the sellers had had enough and realized that in order to sell it they would have to either lower the price or spend a lot of money on upgrades.

So never give up hope, if your house has languished on the market for years, take a hard look at it or better yet have a couple of unattached people take a look at it and give you the hard truth. Is it being marketed correctly? Is the information about the house correct and up to date? How many pictures of your house are on the web, is there a video, is it cluttered? Hang in there if you can, every house has a buyer they just haven’t met yet.

If you want me to take a look at it send me an email to irishdavid2011@gmail.com

Market Update for Glen Laurel Home Sales March 2013

Glen Laurel Subdivision Home Sales for March 2013

Seven homes closed in Glen Laurel Subdivision in Clayton in March 2013. The homes ranged in price from $205,000 to $389,900.

The average price per square foot was $99, while the low was $85 which was a foreclosure  and the highest price per square foot was $125 which was new construction.

Parade of Homes in Glen Laurel

This figure is up considerably from March of 2012 when only two homes sold in Glen Laurel, and is up from January 2013 when 3 homes sold and February 2013 which had 2 home sales.

132 Kensington Court sold for $200,000, originally listed for $225,000  Days on Market 361

106 Avenal Lane sold for $225,000, originally listed for $237,500          Days on Market 179

21 Knollwood Place sold for $242,900 originally listed for $259,900      Days on Market 80

821 Neuse Ridge Dr. sold for $249,000 originally listed for $294,500    Days on Market 181

409 Neuse Ridge Dr sold for $316,500  originally listed for $335,000    Days on Market 297

229 Townsend Dr. sold for $373,500 originally listed for $409,900        Days on Market 377

47 Brookberry Lane sold for $385,000 originally listed for $399,900      Days on Market 387

New Construction Homes in Glen Laurel

At this time...

There are 3 homes listed as contingent in Glen Laurel

There are 5 homes listed as pending in Glen Laurel

There are 39 homes listed as active in Glen Laurel

This information is taken from the Triangle Multiple Listing Service and does not include homes for sale by owner or private sales. All the information is deemed to be accurate but is not guaranteed.

If you need a more detailed account for a particular home in Glen Laurel, call or email David O’Doherty and I’ll be glad to help.

The Clayton Farm & Community Market Opening Day 2013

Spring is here now, as the Clayton Farm & Community Market opens up for the season. The market is open on Saturdays from 9am-1pm and runs April through the last weekend in October. The market is held at Horne Square at the intersection of Lombard and Main in Downtown Clayton. This is the fifth year of the market and it has grown considerably in that time. There are local farms popping up all around Clayton and Johnston County as people realize that farmland is available at decent prices and is close to the big market of Raleigh. Some of the farms are 100% organic, others working on it, but the selection is definitely growing.

What can I buy at the Clayton Farmers Market?

Produce farms such as “In Good Heart Farm" where I bought Russian Kale “Let it Grow” farm owned by Michael and Caroline Lang,local honey from Shamrock’s Buzzy Bee from Four Oaks. Beautiful big herbs, tomato plants, hanging baskets and salad mix plants from Toad Song Farm in Archer Lodge. a new one for me was Creekside Farm in Selma who grow blueberries, I did not know blueberries were so good in salsa! Free range eggs from the Wood Family Farm in Benson who told me they will have grass fed beef later in the month. Organically raised chickens and eggs were on sale from Liberty Poultry who have a 300 acre farm in Zebulon that has been in their family for hundreds of years.  
Clayton Farmers Market

Locally Grown Fruits and Vegetables From Farms Near Clayton

There are also baked goods, coffee, woodworkers and crafts available. This Saturday there was the mandatory bouncy house, the Clayton Police Dept had a police car and motorcycle and a Johnston County Ambulance was on display. A wonderful musical group was on hand who delighted some very young farm market attendees as you can see in the video. The Carolina Blue Sky was in full force as the first warm day of a late starting Spring for this part of North Carolina started off the Clayton Farm & Community Market. Farmers Markets in towns around Raleigh and the Triangle only survive with local support, so get out and buy some locally grown produce in Clayton’s Farmers Market.