At PMZ Real Estate, we believe educated clients are smart clients. That’s why we’ve created Real Estate Trends.

Real Estate Trends is a new service offered at PMZ.com that allows you to check out the latest trends in the past 14 months in real estate. We have graphs broken up by county to give you a visual representation of how the market is doing. Trends like: Number of Homes for Sale vs. Sold vs. Pending, Average Home Sold Price per Square Foot, Days on Market and Median Price of Sold Homes and Average Prices of For Sale and Sold Homes.

Watch as we expand this service. Check out the latest in Real Estate Trends.

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Mike Zagaris has been talking about it since this market cycle began. The foreclosure crisis has been a bane to some, and a boon to others. However, “We’ve found the bottom,” Zagaris said. “The financial institutions have seen the light and are allowing the market to find its own level.” Banks are moving their inventory of foreclosed upon houses, bringing qualified homeowners into the market with heavily discounted properties and sound lending strategies amidst great interest rates.

At PMZ Real Estate, we’ve seen the bottom in our rear view mirror and we’re riding the wave back to the top. Bloomberg points out in there most recent Exclusive story, California’s Discount Foreclosure Sales Point to Housing Bottom, that there are, indeed, good times coming and that there is opportunity available now in the housing market.

Right now there is EXCELLENT opportunity for homebuyers and investors. Home prices are on an average discount of 30-40% according to Bloomberg. Even with the bidding wars going on with foreclosed properties, people are still walking away with huge discounts on the properties they purchase. And, interest rates are still attractive; no where near the 14% they were in the 80’s.

Interested in learning more? Check out the Bloomberg article for an even more informative look at where the housing market is taking us.

It seems these days that our home phone lines have gone the way of the dodo. Nearly everyone I know has a cell phone and most of them have used theirs to browse the Internet, watch some videos or download a ring tone or two.

The future of the Internet is undoubtedly mobile. According to the PEW Research Center, 62% of Americans have accessed the Internet away from home or work, 42% of those Americans specifically used their mobile phone. “People’s growing reliance on their cell phones, together with wireless internet access from laptops, suggests a shift in expectations about cyberspace,” said John B. Horrigan, Associate Director of the Pew Internet Project and author of the report. “For many people, access to digital information and resources is an ‘always present’ utility for answering questions and documenting what is going on around them through photos or video recording.”

This means convenient access to information whenever you want it wherever you are. With nearly every cell phone offered through any carrier being Internet capable, and with access to mobile friendly search engines like Yahoo and Google, it’s almost silly these days to claim, “I don’t know” anymore. Using your cell phone you can look up facts, movie showtimes, song lyrics, maps, books, and a plethora of other information.

The Internet Pioneer
A leader in online real estate and the first to give the general public free access to all the listings in the MLS, PMZ Real Estate is proud to announce our new online platform for mobile devices called PMZ Mobile.
PMZ Mobile is a simple suite of real estate tools that allows the on the go home-hunter or Realtor® to access information and photos on any home that is in the MLS right from their mobile device. It’s easy to get to and even easier to use.
Just visit m.pmz.com from any internet capable mobile device and you can immediately search by address or MLS number for any home for sale on the MLS.

Try it out anywhere!
Say you are out picking up the groceries or the kids from soccer practice and you see a home for sale, but there isn’t a flyer and you want to know more about it. Now you can visit m.pmz.com on your cell phone, type in the street name, choose the property you are searching for and immediately view a picture slide show, pricing information, square feet, beds, baths and even more details! You can contact the agent directly from there or even email the listing to a friend.