Towne Lake Real Estate Guide

“Make our bright future part of yours”

That’s the slogan that was selected by the Woodstock City Council last night.

Forbes Magazine just released their list of the fastest growing suburbs in America. Guess what? Woodstock is the fastest growing suburb in Georgia. In fact, it’s the 10th fastest growing suburb in America.

2000 Population - 10,697
2006 Population - 21,482
100.8% Growth

A 24 hour, 7 days a week hotline has been announced to assist Georgia homeowners avoid foreclosure. The program, called HOPE, will also offer face to face counseling to Georgians who may be at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure. This program announcement comes on the heels of a report that places Atlanta’s 2006 foreclosure total at 63,737 homes, 4.4% of the city’s households, which is 2nd highest in the country among major metro areas.

The hotline phone number is 1-888-995-HOPE (4673)

If you own a home in Eagle Watch or Towne Lake Hills, Golf Digest may have just helped you sell your home if that what you wish to do. In their June issue, Golf Digest ranked Cherokee County the best place in the south to own golf course real estate.

If you would like to speak more about golf course real estate in Towne Lake, or about selling your golf course home, please call me at any time or use the contact form to find many ways to reach me.

Knox Bardeen
(678) 471-7612

I received an e-mail from one of the readers here, Brian, who asked about appreciation rates for individual subdivisions within Towne Lake . I didn’t at the time, but I now have sales data for the last 3 years (2003-2005). I plan to publish each individual subdivision in future posts. If you would like to see the spreadsheet with all the neighborhoods listed together, please send me an e-mail and I will get one out to you.

I just went and toured the construction and development progress at The Village at Towne Lake. This really is going to be a fantastic new addition to the Towne Lake family. I’m going to share a bunch of new Village at Towne Lake information in the next few posts.

Right now I am enjoying coffee and lunch at the Woodstock Coffeehouse. I love this place. With great coffee, food and free wi-fi, I spend a lot of time here.

After the Coffeehouse, I am off to view a few of the Towne Lake foreclosures in the area. If anyone is out and about and would like to join me please give me a call. Or if you’d like to see any Towne Lake real estate at a future date, call or use the contact form to find many ways to reach me.

Knox Bardeen
(678) 471-7612

Over the last few weeks I’ve been very busy. I’ve been a terrible blogger, but the changes that have come from my busy period will be beneficial to everyone.

Over the holidays, the company I work for restructured. We’re no longer the Keller Knapp Team, working for someone else. We’ve turned into Keller Knapp Realty. The people are still the same. We have the same broker, the same support staff and the same agents. We’ve even hired a few more agents. The change was really just a bunch of paperwork. Our company still functions the same. You can still expect great service, professionalism and top notch real estate knowledge from Keller Knapp Realty.

However, with a new name comes new toys. We’re working on new logos, websites, business cards, signs… the list is way too long. With new signs and logos comes the need to reestablish name recognition. To do that I need to get these new signs in as many yards as possible. So, I am offering a special “help me get our new company name out” deal.

For the remainder of January and all of February, anyone in the Towne Lake area who would like to sell their home, I will list it at a 4.5% commission rate instead of the standard 6%-7%. You’ll still get all the same hard work of a 6%-7% listing, but pay a lot less.

In addition, Wade Hunt, with Homebanc Mortgage Corporation, has generously offered a special deal of his own. To congratulate Keller Knapp on their newly formed company as well as any new Keller Knapp clients, Wade will:

• Offer $500 off of closing cost through May 31st for all loans
• Will donate $250 to Keller Knapp’s charity of choice, which is the Atlanta Youth Academy
• Will donate $100 to my charity of choice, which is the Tiger Woods Foundation, in particular the Start Something program where the Tiger Woods Foundation and Target partnered to create a program that encourages kids ages 8 to 17 to identify a specific personal desire or goal and begin taking steps towards achieving their dreams.
• Not only will Wade make a $100 donation to the Start Something program for every real estate transaction, but so will I.

So please, take advantage of these special deals from Wade Hunt at Homebanc Mortgage and myself to get your Towne Lake home on the market before the spring rush begins. If you have any questions please call me at any time, or use the contact form to find many ways of reaching me.

Knox Bardeen
(678) 471-7612

The Atlanta Metro Area is near the top of the nationwide list of foreclosures every month. Over 3000 homes go into foreclosure each month here. It’s a huge problem. Many times foreclosure can be avoided by speaking frankly with your mortgage servicer. Before you call an attorney or just stop payments on your mortgage, call up the company that you send your mortgage payment to every month. You’ll be surprised at some of the options they can give you.

Whether you have sold your home in 2005 or have made an investing purchase or two, this article from Forbes will help you with some 2005 real estate tax tips