Charlotte Homes For Sale Videos

If you are moving to Charlotte, you'll have lots of questions...I have 3 videos to help with three Big questions...

What's Charlotte NC All About?

You Tube's#1 video for Charlotte with over 28000 views, Introduction To Charlotte, as a 4 minute, fact filled, introduction to the

Charlotte Area and Charlotte Homes

So, now you have an idea about Charlotte, But the next question is a Big one... There are lots of Charlotte home for sale, but where would you want to live??? A very subjective question obviously, but there are some starting points, this video is to help get you started:

Charlotte Homes For Sale- Where to Start...

and

Charlotte Luxury Homes- Where to Buy a Luxury Home in Charlotte

I hope you enjoy the videos, here is Charlotte's Home For Sale

Search site...
just click the area and price, and off you go, the whole MLS at your fingertips.

And try this link for the most complete Charlotte Real Estate blog and website

New Charlotte Homes and Real Estate Blog and Website

Introducing the New Charlotte Homes and Real Estate from TerryMcDonaldRealEstate.com blog and website
To Visit my blog at Charlotte Homes For Sale

For Charlotte First Home Buyers with links to Buyer Tips, Avoiding the sand traps and landmines of home buying, 90 Days Left to get your Tax Credits. This is a comprehensive post: Charlotte First Home Buyers- The Works
To Visit Charlotte Homes for Sale- a terrific Charlotte Home Search site

Interested in a Charlotte Luxury Home- great new page

And the Over 55-Active Adult set will like the look and feel of these over 55 communites

Come on over- I'll see you there.

Charlotte NC #1 On You Tube

Terry's Introduction to Charlotte NC Relocation Real Estate

has passed the 10,000 view mark and is #1 on You Tube Searches for Charlotte NC.
Why the popularity? Charlotte is a popular "move-to" city- and Terry's 4 minute video is a fact filled tour from Uptown Charlotte to Waxhaw, Weddington to Lake Norman. It keeps your attention from start to finish.

Charlotte Communites has passed the one year mark with over 65,000 unique visitors its first year. With over 500 indexed pages on Google, that makes Charlotte Communites the #1 site for Charlotte relocation. Don't miss the new map based Charlotte Homes For Sale page- with google maps, community information, condos and more.

The Charlotte Luxury Homes

page at TerryMcDonaldRealEstate remains one of the easiest to use, most complete, and referenced page on the net.

Terry won an award for Best in Client Satisfaction Real Estate,

from Charlotte Magazine, based on more than 30000 surveys of home purchases in 2008.

New BLOG|CharlotteCommunitiesOnline.com

Hey everyone,

I (Terry McDonald) am posting over at my new HQ, new digs at

CharlotteCommunitesOnline

its not perfect yet, but full of posts and well under way!!!

check out this new feature, new home community reports, a new home Top Ten List:

Antiquity in Cornelius
Brookhaven in Weddington
The Palisades In Southwest Charlotte

See you there! Terry

Antiquity in Cornelius

Antiquity is the largest mixed-use community of homes, offices and retail since Birkdale, and promises to change both Cornelius and Davidson over the next decade. The covered bridge on the right is it's northern entry from Davidson, and the Cornelius entry will be at the Town Center in revitalized Cornelius. This community will be a major real estate addition for the north Charlotte suburbs.

Antiquity is just getting started, roads are in and the models just opened and the first homeowners are moving in October, 2007. Two very well thought of builders, Cunnane and Meeting Street Homes, are building detailed period style town homes from the high 170's, and single families in the 300's. I'll have more in future posts, but if you have some vision, their early prices are attractive. I think you'll like their style and if you've visited other communities by Cunnane , you know they are also know for their appreciation! The photos below are from the Cunnane side, Meeting Street pictures will be up next week.



It is a front porch community in walking distance to downtown Cornelius or downtown Davidson, a new community connecting the older Cornelius with the eclectic college town of Davidson.

Charlotte 2 Year Price Increase 2nd in the Nation

Everyone likes to have their work validated, even indirectly. A new website for the investment industry uses my market reporting methodology-- the change in Sold Average Square Foot Price-- as their means to compare price appreciation in local housing markets. Charlotte ranks 2nd in growth nationally according to Radar Logic,11.3%, growth in the Sold Average Cost per square foot. (cps)Radar Logic is a tech company serving the investment banking industry.

For some time I've had issues with the Carolina MLS's regular reporting and the Charlotte Observer's regular coverage of the monthly median price index. It offers little in statistical meaning because it doesn't adjust for changes in average square foot of homes sold, so if one month people buy homes that average 50 sf larger than the year before, there is no meaningful comparison of price. That's why our market reports vary from theirs; our numbers here and for our clients are always based on the average cost per square foot of the sold property. SOLD COST PER SQUARE FOOT! And it isn't hard to figure, it's a mathematical process called division.

Here is the Radar Logic view, "The price per square foot metric provides a powerful tool to analyze housing markets because it significantly reduces the influence of property sizes on overall housing prices that can skew results."

Couldn't say it any better.

Sunday Night Steals and Deals- Myers Park- Charlotte

Back from a trip out east (more on that tomorrow) it is Sunday night and I've been thinking about Myers Park. I grew up in Washington DC and the area there most like Myers Park? Chevy Chase or upper Northwest. Well Myers Park is just 5-10 minutes to Uptown and has housed Charlotte's elites since the earliest days. Wide boulevards and 100 year old oak trees are common, as is original construction dating to the 1930' and 40's, with some a bit older still. These pictures should offer some flavor... so my Sunday Night question is how far would $1M go in Myers Park, a close in suburb of Charlotte, NC?
If you are going large, (over 3500 sf) you'll be getting houses on large roads, Runnymede, Providence and Sharon, with only one exception, a contemporary that don't sell well here. So I went after smaller restored home and found a beauty on the less crowded end of a popular street, Selwyn Avenue. Since this one has a website, I can show you this (non-mls) graphic

3300 heated square feet, plus 1900 sf unheated, with 4 br and 3 baths. This tastefully restored home has a great in town location, curb appeal for $709,000... any one like to try 675K and see where it takes us?