Central PA Real Estate Podcast with Dave Hooke

Buying a home?Click here to perform a full home search Selling a home?Click here for a FREE Home Value Report What are the five most important factors that affect the value of a home? Current location: Home value is influenced by a home’s location, depending on the neighborhood, municipality, values of surrounding homes, and even school district. Future location: Although many sellers focus on current location, it’s critical to consider the future location. Think about what’s trending,

Buying a home?Click here to perform a full home search Selling a home?Click here for a FREE Home Value Report A lot of people ask me to help them understand the benefits of investing in real estate. I want to share some insights into long-term investing, like rental property ownership. There are 4 different types of return on real estate to calculate. Cash flow. This would be different from your gross rents and your monthly expenses. If your expenses like the mortgage payment, taxes,

Buying a home?Click here to perform a full home search Selling a home?Click here for a FREE Home Value Report So you're shopping for homes, you make an offer on the one you want, and the offer is accepted. Now what? The first thing I want to say is that it's not time to celebrate yet; we still have work to do before we get to close on the home. That can take up to 60 days after the offer is accepted. The first thing we can do is write out our earnest money deposit check. That's the money that

“It was great. They were very professional, they kept us informed through every bit of the process and the house sold quickly. I thought that they were very good at communicating with us during the process. Just keeping in touch, letting us know what’s going on, how it’s working out. I mean in three weeks we had an offer, so it wasn’t a long process but yet we didn’t close on the home until a month later because of the house we were holding off on buying that home. During that process they were

Buying a home?Click here to perform a full home search Selling a home?Click here for a FREE Home Value Report Can I buy a home and sell a home at the same time? There are two ways you can complete that transaction. First, you can put your home on the market, sell it, and then purchase a home. Or you can wait to list, purchase a home, own two homes, and then sell your old home. There are pros and cons to each decision and it’s important to find out which is the best way for you. If you

We had a couple, course everybody knows the great recession we just came out of, and we had some problem houses that took a long time on the market and we asked Dave to come in and try to market them and sell them he accomplished that on two different occasions achieving full-price offers in a very reasonable amount of time and it was just really helpful for our business. Would you Recommend him to someone else? Oh Absolutely, absolutely. Just did that today in fact.” -Dave Thompson | Custom

Buying a home?Click here to perform a full home search Selling a home?Click here for a FREE Home Value Report What will a seller accept as a fair price for their home? Many people ask this question, but the only true answer is it really depends on the given market. That’s why it’s important to work with a real estate professional who has the tools to do a market analysis and give you a more definite answer. In the Central Pennsylvania market, sellers have accepted, on average, about 2.7% less

Buying a home?Click here to perform a full home search Selling a home?Click here for a FREE Home Value Report What’s the market like in South Central Pennsylvania? Unfortunately, the national news focuses on data taken from 11 metropolitan areas in the United States. You really need to talk to a local expert to figure out what the real estate market in your area is like. Fortunately, I’m here to provide that hyperlocal insight for our area! For the first time in six years, our housing