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Florida’s Stay-at-Home Order & Working With The Sandberg Team

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Let’s call it “business as (un)usual”.

Starting today, Florida will officially be under a stay-at-home order. Like other states with similar restrictions, we’ll be able to get out for essential activities such as grocery shopping and the like. But otherwise, we’ll be homebound, in efforts to flatten the curve.

What does that mean for real estate?

Residential real estate is considered an essential business in Florida. So real estate agents, like us, are able to continue working to help home buyers and sellers. And while business will carry on, it will be anything but “usual”. And that’s OK.

We plan on continuing to serve customers, safely and responsibly. To do that, we’ll adhere to one simple guideline:

Maximize the use of virtual tools wherever, whenever and however possible.

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COVID-19 & the State of the NE Florida Real Estate Market

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How social distancing, and the economic outlook, are impacting real estate sales in northeast Florida…and beyond.

NE Florida Real Estate & COVID-19
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The coronavirus is having a big impact on real estate–and every other industry–around the world. What’s happening locally, here in northeast Florida? Let’s take a look at a few current data points that help tell the story.

Suspending Open Houses
realMLS, our local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) here in northeast Florida, is temporarily disabling the Open House feature in our MLS system. This means open houses will not be officially marketed via MLS, nor will they automatically appear on syndicated websites such as Zillow, Realtor.com, this website and the like.

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3 Ways to Save When Listing Your Home

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With a little foresight and planning, you may be able to save on closing costs and other expenses when you sell your home.

How to Save on Closing Costs

Closing costs are additional fees associated with selling real property. Fees include things like deed stamps (essentially, a tax on the value of the property), title insurance, appraisals, courier fees and the like. Both buyers and sellers have closing costs they will need to pay, and those costs can range anywhere between approximately 2% and 6% of the sale price.

Fortunately, there are a few things you can do as a seller to reduce your closing costs:

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Disclosure in Real Estate – What, When & How?

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Disclosure is among the most important terms in the real estate lexicon.

Florida Real Estate Seller's Disclosure

Engage in any real estate transaction, especially here in NE Florida, and you’ll be introduced to any number of standard disclosures. Homeowner’s association disclosure, CDD fee disclosure, seller’s disclosure…there’s even a coastal construction line disclosure if you happen to be involved with property at the beach.

All of these disclosures are fairly self-explanatory. But when we talk about disclosure in the broader sense—what did you know, when did you know it and whom did you tell—things can get a little murky.

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