The following text was taken from a Facebook live video on 4/7/23

Happy Friday, friends. I get to finally showcase the interior of this renovated home. It's a hundred-year-old plus property in downtown Summerville. Last week, I recorded from the outside because they were finishing up on the interior of the home, but before we start a quick market update, I want to show you the finished product, and it's a beauty. This construction team has worked really hard over here on Simmons Avenue to produce a fine house. Literally, they had to take it back to the studs in a lot of cases. They have revamped the interior of the home. It had one bathroom, now it has three. They enclosed part of the screened porch. They stabilized the foundation, and basically just rebuilt the house from the foundation up to the roof, so it lives like a new house in all aspects, new plumbing, new electrical, new HVAC, new roof.

We did keep the charm of the old windows, and so it has some of the characteristics and flair that give you that old classic style, but it's going to live like a newer home. So, look at this kitchen. Y'all, the hood, the herringbone backsplash, just the fine details that are featured here. The shaker-style cabinets that are nice and tall. There's just a whole lot of things to love about this house. We did have it staged, and as we've been talking about with the style to design that my team is launching and we've been running those statistics that a house that is staged on average, according to the National Association of Realtors, sells for 6% more. Well, this is a prime example of that because this house would not showcase nearly as well if it did not have certain furniture.

Now, this home was staged by Refresh Your Nest, and so we actually do have furniture in the space, but we can recreate this virtually. If your budget doesn't allow for a fully staged property, we can do it virtually as well, and we'll show some examples. If you want to learn more about that, you can visit my website at ThatSCRealEstateChick.com, and it will give you some prime examples of a before and an after that one of my other home builders recently has done. So, it'll showcase living room and a master bedroom, where we took it before pictures and we virtually staged it. Wow. But isn't this space beautiful? They've got an accent wall. They put a gas line to the fireplace. It has gas lanterns out front, of course the gas range that we just saw, just the high ceilings, the doors and hardware in this house. It goes on and on and on.

We are going to have an open house here today from 11 to 1 on Friday, and then from on Saturday, I'll be here from 10 to 12. So, if you want to come and preview this house or if you know somebody that's interested, come visit, talk to me about real estate. You know that I love to share some numbers and stats, and so even if you're not in the market for purchasing, maybe you just want to come and browse through it. Listen, I love a nosy neighbor. I'll talk to you all day long, and I will showcase this house, and we'll just have a fun time. So, come and see us either today on Friday or tomorrow on Saturday. Also, we're going into Easter Sunday, so all of you families that are rejoicing in that, I am there with you in that rejoicing. Also, this is my personal invitation. If you want somewhere to worship on Easter Sunday with your family, come and join me at Summerville Baptist Church. There's three different services. So, touch base with me and consider that my personal invitation to you to come and worship with my family.

All right, let's talk about the market for a moment. It is still hot, guys. It is hot. That's my message to you. There are buyers. We are going back into multiple offers in many cases. I had to dust off my spreadsheet this week where last year I had this spreadsheet created where it has different columns, itemize and offer one, offer two, offer three. I had to pull that guy back out, and dust him off, and use him this week because we put a property on the market and within 24 hours, I had multiple offers on that property. So, the market is back hot depending on the price point. Our average days on the market though, have gained. Average days on the market, guys. So, it depends on the price point. It depends on what community you're in. I get all of that, but I'm giving you average stats here, and our average days on the market are becoming more normalized, with 44 days on the market being that average.



Our prices are continuing to hold steady. In a lot of cases, we are continuing to see those being driven up, but we are negotiating as well. That's my strong suit. That's what I enjoy doing on behalf of my seller clients. Therefore, I'm back in the game of being able to negotiate for my seller's behalf and a lot of times for our buyer clients as well. If you know of anyone that's looking to buy or sell, my team is anxious. We've onboarded two new agents this week and we are just rocking and rolling. Allison and Valerie out there with buyers this week, they're running the roads. They know the market better. I would say the value of those ladies from a buyer's agent perspective is unprecedented. Our team holds that status in the top 1% for a reason. We work hard for our clients. Reach out to us if we can be a resource to you and have a wonderful Easter weekend.