Birkdale Village and Birkdale Golf Club Real Estate

Carolina Living Real Estate - Marketing At It's Best

2012-01-18T13:13:00.000-08:00

1004 Holland Oaks Drive, China Grove, NC

Check out this video of a home we just listed. Video is king and we take things to the next level!

Thinking of Selling your Birkdale or Huntersville area home? Let us show you how we will market your home!

Professional Pictures
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Carolina Living Real Estate
Roby Robertson

Hey Birkdale, We Pay Our Agents 100% Commission and Pass The Savings Back To You

2012-01-10T12:38:00.000-08:00

Are you thinking of buying or selling in Birkdale or Birkdale Village? Why not ask Carolina Living Real Estate about their services?

Not only do we use the latest technologies, we pay our agents 100% commission and just take a transaction fee.

What does this mean to the consumer (Birkdale Onwer)? Our agents are not giving a substantial amount to us (the Broker) allowing them to negotiate how they want to 'get the deal done'!!

These savings can be used on both the seller and the buyer seller. There are a couple of legal ways to pass this savings on to YOU!.

All you need to do is call us (704 237 0875 or 704 451 7051) and ask how!

You see expired and withdrawn listings in the Birkdale area are not the just the product of smaller companies. They are a part of the business of selling real estate with all companies. However, with a firm like ours, the agents have SO many tools at their disposal, including negotiating with our own money. You see our agents keep the bulk of it and as well all know, Money is Power!

Let's make 2012 the year Charlotte Real Estate bounces back...

Thinking of Selling Your Birkdale or Birkdale Village Home

2011-12-20T11:48:00.000-08:00

In addition to all the usual websites that agents market homes on, Carolina Living Real Estate agents and Roby Robertson, go the extra mile.

Now this is marketing:

Why Sell Your Birkdale and Birkdale Village Home With Carolina Living Real Estate

2011-11-27T07:53:00.000-08:00

Isn't it interesting how Real Estate has changed over the years. It used to be that we would list client homes by putting them in the MLS, possibly advertising them in the paper or a Real Estate Rag and they homes would sell and usually pretty fast.

It is a very changed world with Real Estate marketing. Words and phrases like targeted, syndication, organic search results, video and the like now dominate how we assist our clients in selling their homes.

Buyers are now very savvy Internet users. And... it is not just the younger generation. Our older parents now own iPads, iPhones, Blackberry's and the like. Our marketing has to result in our clients homes being found on the first page of the major (and some minor) search engines.

Enter Carolina Living Real Estate! If you load Google.com and do a search for Birkdale Village, this website and our Lake Norman Communities all show up on page one (and multiple times)! We offer MAXIMUM exposure of all things Birkdale and Birkdale Village whether selling or renting your home. Our Property Management Division also offers our homes major search engine exposure.

Also, when visiting our websites, you see listings of all the homes for sale in a given area. We do this to generate more traffic to the website and also to take advantage of listing syndication. This enables all our listings to also be proliferated all over the web to not so major listings sites like Hotpads, yahoo real estate etc.

Lastly, we have a new website that is taking advantage of the 2nd largest search engine on the web. Actually owned by Google, Youtube videos of homes and real estate information is our newest endeavor to help our customers, Check out our Video Website to see where we are headed with this site and where you will see your home also listed using video with voice over descriptions!

Carolina Living Real Estate is not the largest firm but we just might be the most innovative!

Homes ARE Selling In Birkdale And Birkdale Village

2011-08-28T14:16:00.000-07:00

Birkdale and Birkdale Village Home Sales

Upon review of home sales in the Birkdale and Birkdale Village for all of 2011 up to the end do August, we found that 58 homes have sold in these communities.

Of the 58, 43 have sold in Birkdale
Of the 58 15 have sold in Birkdale Village.

We found that the average days on the market was 119 days.

The average sold price is $338,118 and the average sold price to list price was 95%.

However, compared the same period in 2010, we are behind.

Last year during this period the number of homes sold in the Birkdale area was 123.

86 of these were in Birkdale
37 in Birkdale Village

Average days on the market was 125
Average Sold Price to List price Percentage was 95%
Average sold price was $328,557.

Not A Birkdale Rental But Very Close By

2011-06-22T11:33:00.000-07:00

Very quiet home on wooded lot in Huntersville NC. The entire interior of the home has been made like new. New Carpet is beautiful. Enjoy the peace and quiet of living in a home not in a crowded neighborhood but still close to everything you will need.

See more information about this home with more pictures at: Huntersville Home For Rent

Birkdale Village Townhome For Rent

2011-06-05T06:12:00.000-07:00

Carolina Living Property Management, one of the fastest growing Property Management companies in the Lake Norman and Charlotte areas has a new rental in Birkdale Village to offer.

2 bedrooms
2.5 baths
1 car garage
Fantastic Birkdale Village Community.
Pets (conditional)

See more pictures at Birkdale Village Townhome For Rent

Your Birkdale Vllage Rental Is Waiting For You

2011-05-22T06:45:00.000-07:00

Another Birkdale home rented and managed by Carolina Living Property Management

Rented in 14 days
Carolina Living Property Management is offering 8111 Townley Rd. For Rent.

This is an awesome Birkdale Village area home with hardwood floors, granite counter tops, 2 car garage and much more...check out the details of this home.

Looking for an area rental or thinking of renting your home. Check out the most comprehensive list of rentals in the entire Charlotte, Lake Norman and Birkdale areas at Your Charlotte Property Management.

Birkdale and Birkdale Village Statistics April 2011

2011-04-23T14:25:00.000-07:00

Homes For Sale in Birkdale and Birkdale Village

52 homes are for sale in Birkdale and Birkdale Village.
13 of these homes are under contract and in Active Due Diligence or Conditional Status. This means that the buyer is either waiting on loan confirmation or doing the inspections etc.
17 of the homes are in Birkdale Village
35 of the homes are in Birkdale
Of the Birkdale Village homes the averages are: 156 Days on the Market and List price of $275,200
Of the Birkdale homes the averages are: 124 Days on the Market and List price of $378,383

Birkdale and Birkdale Village Sold Homes

21 homes have sold.
6 of these homes are from Birkdale Village
Of the Birkdale Village homes the averages are: 54 Days on the Market and List price of $238,666
Of the Birkdale homes the averages are: 128 Days on the Market and List price of $339,506

Birkdale and Birkdale Village Homes For Rent

2 Homes are currently for rent and both are in Birkdale ( 1 for $1600 and one for $1800)
6 homes have rented since 1/1/2011, all in Birkdale with an everage lease price of $1540

Why Choose Carolina Living Real Estate

2011-03-29T07:43:00.000-07:00

At Carolina Living Real Estate, we focus on the little things and YOU. More importantly, Carolina Living Agents get to keep 100% commissions. Why is that important. Our agents to not have to calculate how much they will make every time they sit down with a customer. They don 't have to give a percentage to their Broker! While we don't advocate working for free because our jobs are hard. However, keeping our money does allow us to do what we are hired to do. Broker the deal. We market well and we negotiate with everything we have.

Did you know that every firm that is a member of the MLS has their listings syndicated to all the important websites. The number one website on the universe for real estate is Realtor.com. List with us, you will find it there! However, that is not the only place. Trulia is another great place to find real estate. We are there too! Yahoo Real Estate, Yep!

Check out some more of the little things we do!

Check out our Carolina Living Real Estate Featured Listings

See how we market homes. Check out the pictures and Virtual Tour of this great Huntersville Home. We actually got an offer in 2 days! As they say, you have to win the war online and we hire a professional photographer to do just that!

Contact us to learn more!

2011 Safety Town Registration Starts Monday March 14th at 9:00am

2011-02-28T09:05:00.000-08:00

Huntersville Police Department

Presents

SafetyTown 2011

Safety Town is a one-week program for children entering kindergarten in August 2011 that teaches life-saving lessons on strangers, traffic, fire, pedestrians, guns, poisons, drugs, playground, bus, and bicycle safety. The child-sized town includes working traffic lights, miniature street signs (stop, pedestrian crossing, railroad crossing, etc.), crosswalks and eight colorful little buildings representing our town!

First session week of June 13^th -16^th

Second session week of June 20^th -23^rd

Third session week of June 27^th -30^th

There will be AM and PM Sessions!
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
All Sessions will be held at Blythe Elementary School

Contact: Sergeant Tom Seifert at safetytown@huntersville.org

Applications will be posted on the Police Department’s website www.huntersvillepd.org and MUST be delivered to the Police Department in person Registration Starts Monday March 14^{th at} 9:00am

Safety Town Fee is $50.00 includes t-shirt, class photo, bicycle helmet, daily snacks, and drinks

Checks Payable to Town of Huntersville

Open to Huntersville Residents Only

Birkdale and Birkdale Village Statistics Feb 2011

2011-02-20T09:11:00.000-08:00

Birkdale and Birkdale Village Homes For Sale

As of 2/20/2011, there are 42 homes for sale in the Birkdale and Birkdale Village Subdivisions. Additionally there are 7 homes currently under contract.

Of the 42 active homes for sale, 32 are in Birkdale and 11 are in Birkdale Village.

Of the 7 homes under contract, 5 are in Birkdale and 2 in Birkdale Village.

Of the Birkdale homes, the average days on the the market is 132.

Of the Birkdale homes, the average sales price is $373,112.

Of the Birkdale Village homes, the average days on the the market is 185.

Of the Birkdale Village homes, the average sales price is $280,030.

There are 4 homes currently for rent in Birkdale and Birkdale Village.

3 of these are in Birkdale Village with an average rental price of $1350.

Check out YourCharlottePropertyManagement to see all the area Rentals.

Your Birkdale Property Manager Get's A Grade of 'A'

2011-02-10T17:28:00.000-08:00

Carolina Living Property Management serving the Charlotte and Lake Norman areas as well as points North, South, East and West has earned an A with the Better Business Bureau!

Click on the picture to learn more about our services.

We charge a very low 8% management fee with ZERO start up costs. Check out our great service!

Looking For A Golf Course Rental

2011-02-03T05:35:00.000-08:00

Not sure about Birkdale? Try Verdict Ridge

Charming 2 story brick/stone home in Verdict Ridge. Beautiful updated kitchen with granite coutertops and stainless steel appliances. Stunning two story great room open to the kitchen. Large bedroom /bonus room upstairs, plus 2 additional bedrooms upstairs. Great Screen porch and deck off of the breakfast room. Screen porch with tile floor. Large two tier deck overlooking large, fenced yard.

If Birkdale is not the place but you want a great golf course!
Check out Verdict Ridge in Denver NC.

Read More about this great rental at: Your Charlotte Property Management

Maximize Exposure On Your Birkdale Home With The Fisher Team And HDTV

2011-01-04T05:54:00.000-08:00

MY FIRST SALE, the popular primetime HGTV show, is looking for first-time home sellers (and their real estate agents!) in the Charlotte, NC area.

The are looking for fun, high-energy people who are just starting the process of selling their first place! Their cameras will be there to capture all the trials and tribulations, stress and success of prepping for sale, pricing, negotiating, and ultimately selling a home for the first time.

The Fisher Team is prepared to join in the fun. While this has the potential to expose us to in both positive and negative ways, we are prepared to put our marketing and work ethic for all to see and at the same time, get your home maximum exposure.

HDTV follow you and your interaction with The Fisher Team for approximately 15 shoot days over the course of the process of selling your home. This real estate rollercoaster could include some of the more stressful days of your life, yet it sounds like fun. Better yet, we could get your home sold faster! A modest thank you check for the featured seller(s) and their agent will be awarded. You’ll also receive a DVD copy of your episode, giving you a lasting memory of the process.

The Fisher Team is continually researching creative ways to market your Birkdale and Birkdale Village home. What better way than to team up with HGTV!

Contact us if you would like to discuss this opportunity.

Market Your Birkdale Home With The Fisher Team

2010-12-19T13:07:00.000-08:00

Most sellers know that every home is different so why do most agents market all their listings the same? It is because most agents aren’t trained on marketing and sales but are trained on getting listings, getting buyers, real estate law and the real estate transaction process. While those aspects of the real estate transaction are important, why not work with someone who thinks outside the box? Why not work with someone who spends marketing dollars marketing YOUR home and not their own company’s branding? Why not work with someone who thinks of Creative Solutions to Market Your Home?

Check out some of the reasons why to choose The Fisher Team.

The Fisher Team's Tools To Market Your Home

The Fisher Team Success Stories

Why Carolina Living Real Estate

Our New Offer To Purchase and How It Affects Our Birkdale Buyers and Sellers

2010-12-10T05:41:00.000-08:00

Our North Carolina Offer To Purchase Is Changing, Are you Ready?

At Carolina Living Real Estate, our agents are preparing diligently to give the best possible service by educating ourselves about the new contract forms. The change, for NC Realtors, is BIG!

With the hope of not being too long winded, I will quickly explain the difference.

In the past, our contracts had to options (alternatives) for completing the due diligence for purchasing a home. The most often used (Alternative 1) involved earnest money deposit, buyer obtaining a loan, doing inspections and negotiating repairs. Sounds pretty simple, but there is/was a lot of areas in the contract left to interpretation. This ambiguity resulted in failed deals and the seller having taken his/her home off the market getting nothing in return.

The ah-ha moment has come for the NC Real Estate Commission. We always had another option (Alternative 2) which was seldom used. It involved Option Money, which essentially the buyer purchasing time to do the due diligence. Unlike earnest money, this money is not refundable to the buyer. This protects the seller and gives the buyer the right to terminate for ANY reason without being sued for performance.

So, what can Carolina Living Real Estate do to mitigate risk for our clients?

The first thing we do for our sellers is to go over the risks associated with selling the home with regard to losing a sale during the due diligence period. While assessing the risks, we can advise our sellers how to mitigate the risk by doing some things up front with the hopes of asking for more option money up front.

Logically, if we have already mitigated some of the buyer risk, then they should in good faith give the seller more option money. (The money does go towards the purchase when they close).

Obviously for our buyers, we have to evaluate the risk and recommend an option amount that supports the risk.

For both buyers and sellers. This is important and even though it is a DUH comment, it was not always done. Buyers MUST get pre-approved before writing any offer. More importantly they should not even be looking without having it done. We realize that pre-approval is a long way from getting the funds, but at least the buyer will know if they have credit to at least apply!

Hopefully this helps some. If you want to have a discussion about how to mitigate some of the risks, please feel free to call me at 704-451-7051!

Birkdale-Birkdale Village and Surrounding Area Homes For Sale

2010-11-09T09:48:00.000-08:00

There are currently 50 homes for sale in Birkdale and Birkdale Village!

A whopping 21 out of the 50 have had their prices reduced in the last couple of weeks. That is almost 50% of the homes where there has been a price reduction. WOW! The average days on the market is 135 days with the most being 351 days.

Since October 1st, there have been seven (7) closings in Birkdale and Birkdale Village. Of these 7, ALL of them had had a recent price reduction! The average days on the market for these homes is 144 days with the most being 231 and the least being 57.

There are 7 Birkdale and Birkdale Village homes for rent with the least being 1100 and the most 1850.

What a great time to live in the Birkdale area!

Visit some of our other websites for more home listing.

Lake Norman and Charlotte Property Management and Rentals

Lake Norman Foreclosures

Charlotte Foreclosures

Carolina Living Real Estate

Birkdale and Birkdale Village Absorption Rate November 2010

2010-11-03T06:36:00.000-07:00

Birkdale and Birkdale Village are fairing better than our overall market. Check out the inventory of homes compared to the rest of Charlotte and our entire MLS.

Birkdale (Area 9)

Homes sold per month over the past year	3.4
Homes on the market now	29
Current inventory	8.5 months

Birkdale Village (Area 9)

Homes sold per month over the past year	1.7
Homes on the market now	12
Current inventory	7.2 months

by comparison...

Charlotte

Homes sold per month over the past year	669.10
Homes on the market now	7295
Current inventory	10.90 months

Mecklenburg

Homes sold per month over the past year	827.90
Homes on the market now	9078
Current inventory	11.00 months

CMLS

Homes sold per month over the past year	1772.20
Homes on the market now	21545
Current inventory	12.20 months

Huntersville Stats September 2010

2010-11-01T11:16:00.000-07:00

Here are some interesting real estate statistics from the Huntersville NC area.

Carolina Living Real Estate and Property Management Has Moved

2010-10-18T07:35:00.000-07:00

To better serve our Birkdale and Birkdale Village neighbors, Carolina Living Real Estate and Property Management has moved to Northcross drive in Huntersville. This enhances our ability to respond quickly and efficiently to both our listing, buyer and property management clients.

Carolina Living Real Estate and Property Management is 17 professional agents with many years of experience. Offer our agents 100% commission, we enable our agents to spend marketing dollars where they belong, ( on our clients and not to the broker).

Check out some more of our websites!

Charlotte Foreclosures

Lake Norman Foreclosures

Lake Norman Communities

Looking for a Foreclosure

2010-09-29T14:01:00.000-07:00

So many in todays market are looking for foreclosures. Also, many sellers are desperately looking for a short alternative.

We can help on both of those fronts.

You can find foreclosures or learn how we help with short sales at the following two sites.

Free Charlotte Foreclosures

Free Lake Norman Foreclosures

Looking For A Birkdale Foreclosure

2010-09-09T13:45:00.000-07:00

Birkdale Foreclosure For Sale

2-Story Home with 2-Car, Side-Load Garage. Terrific four bedroom home in wonderful Birkdale with its many amenities. Hardwood floors, ceramic tile, built in bookcases, extensive wood trim, and trey ceilings are just some of the special touches that set this home apart. Home does need some repair!

Home is on the market for $310.000!

The bank bought it back for $291,000!

We are your foreclosure finding experts. If you want to see this one or get updated lists of your own, contact us at Carolina Living Real Estate!

Birkdale and Birkdale Village Mid Year Statistics

2010-08-08T05:27:00.000-07:00

Birkdale and Birkdale Village Real Estate

Now that summer is almost over and school will be starting it is time to take stock in how 2010 has gone in the Birkdale area.

Homes Sold in Birkdale from 1/1/2010 to 8/1/2010 - 29 Total

Homes Sold in Birkdale Village from 1/1/2010 to 8/1/2010 - 12 Total

Birkdale Active Homes - 39 Total

Birkdale Village Active Homes - 21 Total

The DOM (days on the market) average has increased for the Birkdale area but is still below the Charlotte area average. The very high numbers are in most cases for New Construction homes which is not unusual.

There us a lot of inventory (a total of 60) homes with the active homes having an average Days on the Market of 129 days.

In Birkdale, 3 of the active homes are described as foreclosures or short sales.

In Birkdale Village, 3 of these active homes are also described as foreclosures or short sales.

Birkdale-Birkdale Village and Surrounding Area Homes For Sale

2010-08-03T06:56:00.000-07:00

For the benefit of our buyers and sellers, you can now see thousands of listings in the Birkdale and surrounding Charlotte areas.

We have created extensive home listings by city and price that make marketing your home and your home search so much easier.

From this website, you can always find Birkdale and Birkdale Village current homes for sale and for rent.

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