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Breaking News From Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices
Posted by thunsicker in Uncategorized on May 5, 2014
February 2014 Market Update
Posted by thunsicker in Uncategorized on March 27, 2014
Click the video below for the latest real estate market upate for the Vinings area. You may also view additional video reports for many of our local markets. I’ve included links directly to the Buckhead update as well as the Smyrna update.
Please contact me with any questions regarding your real estate needs. As part of Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, I have access to proprietary information resources that are not available to the public and can help you understand the real facts in your area.
Better information leads to better decisions!
Happy New Year!
Posted by thunsicker in Uncategorized on January 8, 2014
Whew! December was quite a busy month! For some reason, December has always been a good month work-wise, and this year was no exception. Of course, with a young child, there is a lot to do to prepare for Christmas. And if both of those things weren’t enough, on the 10th we converted from Prudential to Berkshire Hathaway Home Services!
Here is a nice article about the conversion from the Atlanta Business Chronicle:
Prudential set to become Berkshire Hathaway
by Douglas SamsCommercial Real Estate Editor- Atlanta Business ChronicleAtlanta’s largest residential real estate company plans to make a bold move into the ultra-competitive luxury home market.
The push comes almost eight months after Prudential Georgia Realty, probably known best for new home sales in suburban Atlanta markets, was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A, BRK-B) affiliate HomeServices of America Inc.
Now we’re on to 2014 and have new listings that will be popping up soon. I’ll be posting some in the days to come, but for now, we are hoping your year is off to a great start and you are staying warm!
October Market Update
Posted by thunsicker in Atlanta Real Estate on November 19, 2013
Here are the Prudential Market Updates for Buckhead and Vinings in the month of October:
Sales in Buckhead have dropped month over month and year over year. I believe this is primarily due to decreased inventory, but it is also a seasonal adjustment. As a result with 6 years of inventory available, sales are slowing and inventory is climbing in the the over $2M market.
October Market Update – Buckhead
Vinings remained steady with a much higher increase in sales price. I believe that is primarily due to the higher end homes (at and over $1M) moving again at a great pace. Many of those homes had been on the market for quite a while, but with no new inventory coming on the market, I believe buyers finally picked from what existed versus continuing to wait and hope for what they wanted to come on the market. We had a great flurry of the newer high end homes sell this spring and finally this fall the remodeled high end homes have gone under contract. That could partially be due to the sellers compromising further in price as well.
October Market Update – Vinings
I’m including more specific Vinings data from another source as well that I find to be interesting.
Under $800k
| Location: | ZIP 30339 |
| Price Range: | $0 – $799,999 |
| SQFT Range: | 0 – No Limit |
| Property Types: | Residential Detached – All Properties – All Properties |
| Bedrooms: | 0 – No Limit |
| Full Baths: | 0 – No Limit |
| Half Baths: | 0 – No Limit |
| Year Built: | 0 – No Limit |
Look at the balancing of inventory to demand that has taken place over the past year in Vinings under $800,000. Inventory has steadily declined and transactions have increased. This is great news as well. It shows us that homes in 30339 that are priced right will sell.
$800k and Up
| Location: | ZIP 30339 |
| Price Range: | $800,000 – No Limit |
| SQFT Range: | 0 – No Limit |
| Property Types: | Residential Detached – All Properties – All Properties |
| Bedrooms: | 0 – No Limit |
| Full Baths: | 0 – No Limit |
| Half Baths: | 0 – No Limit |
Notice the volume of sales in April (which were newer construction over $1M) and then last month. I’ve pulled this over the past 2 years to show you the significance in the volume change. There has been pent up demand for the higher end homes, but the remodels weren’t selling this spring and then, as of last month, they are moving. This definitely sends us a message that buyers want Vinings enough to compromise or set their expectations a bit higher on price points. This is great news for us and also indicates a need for high end homes on the market in Vinings again.
As always, let me know if you might be interested in selling as I have buyers that are still looking!
New mobile app for local real estate
Posted by thunsicker in Atlanta Real Estate, Prudential Georgia Realty on November 11, 2013
Prudential Georgia Realty has introduce a new mobile app for Android and iPhone! For instructions on downloading it, text TinaH to 404-620-2300. Even if you aren’t shopping, it’s fun to keep up with everything that’s going on in the market. Here are a few of the great features available:
- Best Local Real Estate App for Greater Metro Atlanta
- Listings from all MLS’s
- Sold Properties from MLS
- Recently Rented from MLS
- New Home Properties
- Short Sales/Foreclosures
- Property Scan/Augmented Reality
Download it and let me know what you think of it!
SOLD: 1956 West Wesley
Posted by thunsicker in Uncategorized on November 6, 2013
I’m so happy for my clients who are moving to 1956 West Wesley. We just closed last Friday!
As many of you know, Paces Neighborhood has large lots, estate style homes and is my dream location. Earlier this year, I had moved another family to 3111 Ridgewood just around the corner. Although different in style, both of these homes have over one acre lots, pools and fabulous kid friendly terrace levels. We are going to plan something soon so both of these families can meet other friends in the neighborhood. Fortunately, they are both still close to Vinings and I still consider them neighbors!
1956 West Wesley
3111 Ridgewood
Upcoming Vinings Restaurant Week!
Posted by thunsicker in Living, Neighborhoods, Restaurants, Vinings on September 11, 2013
Come one, come all to the Second Annual Vinings Restaurant Week from Oct 5th-13th.
If you already call Vinings home, live just across the river in Buckhead or over the RR tracks in Smyrna, you are probably looking forward to another great restaurant week. Besides the fact that these are all great restaurants (we’ve tried all of them!), eating locally gives us a chance to run into friends and neighbors while we are out. We will make it a point to visit as many of these restaurants as we can.
Each place will offer fixed price menus – $15, $25 and $30.
These are just a few of the eighteen neighborhood restaurants participating in Restaurant Week! With so many great places to choose from, you’ll find something to suit anyone’s taste including dessert and breakfast/brunch/lunch for you early birds.
If you’ve found this link because you are searching for a Vinings home, this is a perfect opportunity to see what the area has to offer. Grab a friend or come out and make a friend. We looking forward to seeing you there!
For you locals – which of these restaurants is a must-visit? If these places are new to you, which one are you most looking forward to trying?
Modernism and Architecture in Atlanta
Posted by thunsicker in Atlanta Home Builders, Interior Design on September 6, 2013
I’ve recently had a few listings that a few Atlanta real estate agents called “contemporary”, and although the homes themselves would not be called contemporary it seems that anything different than what Atlantans are used to seeing being built by builders around 2005 gets labeled contemporary. I’ve had agents tell me contemporary doesn’t sell in Atlanta.
I want to be the first to disagree and talk about the contemporary trend in metro Atlanta real estate.
Contemporary influences and style can be found in homes throughout metro Atlanta, including this home for sale in Smyrna at 1912 New Haven Court. Click on the photo for more pictures and information. Listed by Tina Hunsicker of Prudential Georgia.
When I first started in real estate in 2002, I may have agreed. I saw builders all building the same things – brick and stone with a lot of mixed media in between. The floors plans all had a similar feel.
In 2013, not only do we have a different audience in Atlanta, but also we have a very global influence on our home designs and clients’ desires. Those from NY, California and yes, many places in between have been seeing modern architecture and finishings a lot longer than here in the heart of the South where oriental rugs and draperies seem to be the preference.
The dining room at 1912 New Haven Court is also modern – note the light color palate with an intentional splash of color. Wonderful! Click on the image for additional information and more photos.
I was inspired to write this post this morning after reading an article in my daily Prudential e-news. The article which I’ll post below is about Legos and the simplicity their new design holds.
I find myself starting to move everything in my house to “white” or variations of it. I like the simplicity, the ability to add accents in different seasons and have a new look all the time. Sometimes when life is crazy, the best retreat is to a room that is clean and simple. It’s relaxing to me. I guess that’s the Zen feel that many look for.
Anyway, I hope we continue to see more structures in Atlanta that are “simple” with clean lines, and our children can take the monochromatic Legos and really “create” versus copying the picture off the front of a box. I like the lesson learned here, and I think I’ll find this set for my son for his birthday.
Lego, the Tool of Young Modernists |
| By Christopher Hawthorne |
| RISMEDIA, Thursday, August 29, 2013— (MCT)—Over the last couple of weeks, a tiny monochromatic skyline has been growing in my kitchen.Since opening Lego’s new Architecture Studio, my daughters (who are 9 and 4) and I have been putting together, dismantling and redesigning a group of about 10 buildings. We’ve kept the results on display on a shelf above the sink.Because the Architecture Studio includes bricks in just two shades — white and transparent — the buildings we’ve created all seem to be related, at least distantly, to modern architecture. This is a decidedly Corbusian color scheme; as my 9-year-old put it, gesturing in the direction of a house she’d made, “If that was hot pink, it wouldn’t look modern.”Even her barn-like structure with a pitched roof looked as much Cliff May as old-fashioned stable, thanks in part to a transparent ground floor. The limited palette also seems to make the kit more forgiving — nearly any design looks pretty good in all white or the Lego equivalent of all glass (or a mix).Lego has produced a number of architecture-related products, but they’ve tended to be kits to design a single famous building: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, for example, or the Sydney Opera House. The Architecture Studio is closer in spirit to the original Legos, the ones that allow you to build whatever you feel like building.And as Edwin Heathcoate, the British architecture critic, pointed out recently, there’s something to be said for simplicity and open-endedness in toys. Part of that is nostalgia, I think, for a pre-digital age; but you can’t argue with the number of accomplished architects who talk about playing with Legos or wooden blocks as a formative experience. In that sense it’s surprising Lego didn’t release a set like this years ago.
The Architecture Studio comes with a pretty thick book featuring interviews with (and design advice from) architecture firms, including Tokyo’s Sou Fujimoto and the Swedish office Tham & Videgård. But it’s as much a collection of conceptual essays on the nature of architectural play as instruction manual — and to be fair, this is a product pitched at a target audience older than my kids, really teenagers and up. I decided I liked the limited color scheme: It made the ungainly buildings I put together seem to come from the same architectural family as the ones the girls made, even if the shapes and sizes were quite different. I suspect more than a few kids, though, will open the box and immediately wish for brighter colors. As I thought back on the time we’ve played with the set, I realized something surprising: The only time the three of us spent a sustained period of time using it together was right after we first took it out of the box. The 1,200 pieces in the set come all mixed up in a bunch of small pouches. Before we built anything we decided to sort them by type as we all sat on the floor. That took a full hour. It was strangely meditative. A rare quiet descended on the house as we tossed the little bricks into growing piles. |
Tina’s Exciting New Affiliation with Prudential Georgia Realty
Posted by thunsicker in State of Real Estate Market on August 27, 2013
By the end of the year, metro Atlanta will be seeing the new Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices sign – with my name on it!
I’m pleased to announce my new affiliation with Prudential Georgia Realty. As of this Monday I’ve made the transition and am working at getting new listings converted as I post this.
There is something exciting going on at Prudential! On December 10th we will become Berkshire Hathaway Georgia Properties. Below is a video to give you an idea of why the conversion and the new signage.
I’m thrilled to be entering the largest network of agents in the state of Georgia and bring this fabulous brand to Buckhead, Vinings and Smyrna. You will see my signs converting to Prudential this week and in December the Cabernet signs will appear. More to come of this fabulous affiliation but I’m still learning them as well.
Check out this video!
Click here to get to know Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices – there’s a brief video and more information describing the company coming to Atlanta in December 2013!
Here’s my contact info (email and phone number are still the same!):
Tina Hunsicker
Tina Hunsicker
Prudential Georgia Realty – Buckhead Office
(404) 931 – 3944
Vinings home SOLD: 3849 Brandy Station, Atlanta 30339
Posted by thunsicker in Under Contract and Sold Homes, Vinings on March 21, 2013
We’re doing the happy dance here at the office – I have my listing at 3849 Brandy Station SOLD! It’s a lovely French Provincial estate in Vinings. It was redesigned from top to bottom in 2007 by Linda McArthur and has over 7000 square feet of space.
This stunning, airy living room will be host to new owners soon – my listing at 3849 Brandy Station in Vinings is under contract!
A French provincial home Vinings – in an established neighborhood but new inside and out. 3489 Brandy Station in Atlanta’s zip code 30339 is under contract with an original list price of $1,599,900 by Tina Hunsicker.
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