Island Colors Offers Spectacular One Day Sale – Located in the Food Lion Shopping Center .  This year Island Colors has a great variety of new fall and winter sweaters, French terry sweatshirts and active wear by Fresh Produce,   I Can Too and Lula B. Island Colors has also brought in fall versions of the OK Ab shoes. They even have t-shirts, sanda...

The real estate landscape has changed dramatically in the last 4 years.  Our local housing market continues to be volatile.  Home sales continued to improve in October giving us two months increase year-over-year, an encouraging sign.  However, the average price of a home fell from $257,912 in October 2008 to $237,998 in October 2009.   How can y...

Paula Ferebee of Intracoastal Realty recently earned the nationally recognized Short Sales and Foreclosure Resource (SFR) certification. The SFR curriculum and standards are governed by the National Association of REALTORS®.  Agents with the SFR certification have an understanding of how to direct distressed sellers to finance, tax, and legal profe...

Intracoastal Realty announces recipients of the October 2009 Million Dollar Club.  See below for the big winners. Closed Volume: 11 agents had a closed sales volume of at least $1M in October Vance Young - 9.2 Keith Beatty - 3.9 Angie Pool - 3.4 Mark Bodford - 2.1 Debbie Mitchell - 2.0 Susan Lacy - 1.4 Eva Elmore - 1.2 Rodney Keesee - 1....

Checkered Church to host Open House – The Checkered Church Gift Shop will hold their 13th Annual Holiday Open House on Saturday and Sunday, November 14th and 15th from noon until 4:00 p.m. Come see their Mermaid themed tree, sample their gourmet foods from Goodness Gullah Gourmet, Maggie & Mary’s and more. Refreshments will be available and every s...

Dan Willard of Intracoastal Realty recently earned the nationally recognized Short Sales and Foreclosure Resource (SFR) certification. The SFR curriculum and standards are governed by the National Association of REALTORS®.  Agents with the SFR certification have an understanding of how to direct distressed sellers to finance, tax, and legal profess...

The graph below depicts an eye-opening return on investment for real estate.  The graph is based on assumptions that an equal amount of money was invested in each of the three markets shown and in real estate on January 1, 2000.  With all of the negative media attention, who would have thought that real estate not only provided the highest ROI, but...

New legislation under The Worker, Homeownership, and Business Act of 2009 was recently signed to extend the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers and to provide a new tax credit of up to $6,500 for qualified repeat buyers.  For both programs, the credits apply to sales taking place by April 30, 2009 (binding sales contract by April 30, 2009 ...

American Legion Fish Fry Today – Since it’s the first Friday of the month that means that the American Legion will be hosting their monthly fish fry. Today from 11-7 $8.00 will get you a plate with Fresh Fried Fish, Hushpuppies, Cole Slaw, Potato Salad, Corn on the Cob, Ice Tea &Coffee. Desserts will be sold by the Ladies of the auxiliary starting ...

Following are recent comments from some of our satisfied clients: Reddingta:  Deb Quaranta (Hays) was our agent and she went way above and way beyond helping us. Deb is a great asset to your company -- the best agent we have had!!   LaPierre: Ashley Garner was excellent to work with. He went above and beyond our expectations!   Blair Mahoney: ...