Posts from May 2020

Will your home sell quickly when that time comes? The short answer: It depends where you live.

A few key statistics help determine how fast a home will sell. One of these indicators is the average "days on market," or DOM within a given geographic area. This number is determined by citing the first day a home is "active" on the multiple listing service (MLS) and counting the days until it is sold, or goes "under contract." Looking at the DOM is a quick way to grasp the temperature or liquidity of a market. The lower the DOM, the hotter the market.

Recently released statistics now available at www.EileenVoylesRealtor.com indicate that North Londonderry Township (Lebanon County, Palmyra Area School...

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The gravel track down the street has been my good friend during the quarantine. My days are much happier and productive if I start with a quick walk to and from the track and a few laps in the morning air.

When I'm running on the track, keeping my head up and my eyes looking out, I see lines of lighter gravel clearly marking several jogging lanes. Although these lines are smeared and messy—it would be tough to find a definitive start and end to a given line—the division between lanes is surely visible.

But when I looked down directly below me in a section of the line as small as a square foot, the lighter stones and darker s...

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Flip on the news and you'll see stories of economic mayhem; anxiety levels and loneliness are up and 401ks are down. Through it all, Sun Country real estate is taking its COVID-19 punches like a prizefighter.

Virtual tours, sight-unseen addendums, and creative workarounds to deal-making are prevailing over consumer fear and indecision. While activity lags, prices and "days on the market" improves.

Christian and Holly Schlitzer, new Derry Township residents, bought and sold homes during the quarantine.

"We listed our home in Hampden Township (Cumberland County) and made an offer on a home in Derry Township prior to the COVID-19 issues," Holly Schlitzer said. "We were in the middle of those transactions when things started shutting down. We saw n...

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How has quarantine been for you? I've had good days and bad. I heard the below info on a podcast yesterday and thought it was so profound and wanted to share it with you.

This is from Shawn Anchor, brain researcher and author of the book "Big Potential." The wording is a bit awkward because its transcribed from a podcast, but I hope you get the gist.

"Two researchers out in VA found that if you're looking at a hill you need to climb, if you look at that hill by yourself your brain shows you a hill that is 20% steeper than the same hill you look at when you're with someone who's going to climb the hill with you. Basically, by including another brain, you see another hill. I always thought when I looked at a mountain, that's the mountain. And I can decide whether to climb it. That's not how the human brain works at all. The geometry of the challenges in your life are constantly in flux based upon whether you t...

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