We have written before about the growing shortage of foreclosure homes for sale in Broward County, along with our experience that clients face growing competition for those homes. We often see clients competing against multiple asking price offers for short sale and foreclosure homes in the Ft Lauderdale area. In fact, there is growing competition for nearly every home that is priced right on the market for right now. Today, the Sun Sentinel confirmed the current real estate statistics, which suggest an optimistic forecast for the Fort Lauderdale Real estate market in 2012.
I recently read an article on the improvements in the real estate market, and the commenter negativity towards this claim amazed me. One such commenter who claimed to be from “Yale,” (the people that I know who go to Yale don’t go around telling everyone who will listen, but we digress) claimed that real estate agents are less than honest because they’re trying to sell real estate. He perseverated on this point in response to other commenters and called the real estate projections bogus due to the less than honest intentions of real estate agents. Not only was this somewhat surprising, it is inaccurate.
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