Long Island Real Estate Podcast with Karen and Joe Donovan

You may have heard that spring and summer are the best times to sell a house, but today, I’m discussing why this winter is a fantastic time to sell your house. Buying a home? Search all Long Island homes on the MLS Selling your home? Get a FREE home value report Welcome to my new series, ‘Keeping in Tune With the Market.’ We want to use this series to bring valuable and relevant information to home buyers, sellers, and Realtors alike. The question we’re answering today comes from Amy

It may surprise some of you to know that we at the Donovan Team are as passionate about music as we are about real estate! Please check out this year's Singing Christmas Card! Want to listen to the song? Play Song Want to watch the full video? Play Movie With the holidays in full swing, we wanted to share something special with you today. As many of you may know from prior posts - when we aren’t busy helping our clients buy and sell real estate or helping our team members design their

What is a CMA? Why do you need one? I’ll go over the entire comparative market analysis process for you today. Buying a home? Search all Long Island homes on the MLS Selling your home? Get a FREE home value report This month I’m answering a question from Evan Resnick, the winner of our $25 gift certificate. Evan asks, “What is a CMA and why do I need one?” First of all, CMA stands for competitive market analysis or comparative market analysis. If you want to know what your home is

Travel alert — avoid bright, shiny objects! More and more people are traveling every year, so I thought I'd better issue this travel alert to watch out for bright, shiny objects at the airport. I'm not talking about guns or knives, but rather clothing with metallic features, like the ones on my shirt in the video above. I actually set off security with this shirt! I thought they'd just take me aside for a moment, but it turned into a full-body search in a private room. I also had to take apart

I recently had a buyer whose lease was up. This buyer had been in the army and felt that he “hadn’t had a place to call home since.” He was about to close on the property when the lender sent an email requesting more paperwork, pushing the closing back another month.The buyer had sent in his application on time and paid for inspections and appraisals. Unfortunately, the lender never sent the application to underwriting. When the buyer asked why everything took so long, the lender cited staffing