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Are you looking for the best real estate professionals in Orlando?  Then we have exactly what you’re looking for… Top-rated real estate professionals in Orlando, FL.
With us, you can sell your Orlando home for Top dollar in the least amount of time. We guarantee results.  We work with buyers and sellers from around the world which enables us to reach more potential buyers for your home.

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At Orlando Realty Consultants we understand that buying or selling a home is one of the most important decisions of your life. That’s why we go the extra mile to ensure that your home buying or selling experience is a pleasant one.

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What’s In This Year’s Home Buying Season for Home Buyers in Orlando

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The Orlando real estate industry has been reveling the home-buying season in 2014. April 2014 marked a month of consecutive reductions in the rates of fixed mortgages. Rates of interest on the standard 30-year home loans dropped to their lowest level in the second week of April. The rates, the lowest since February, reduced again in the third week – increasing buyer activity in the industry.

Now, according to a new industry report, this year’s spring buying season commenced with a significant rise in the month-to-month sales of residential real estate property. According to industry experts, the month of March saw 17.28 percent more sales than February. Further, in terms of just the “normal” sales in February and March, the latter month outperformed the former by nearly 24 percent!

Realtors in Orlando will confirm the opinions of the experts – all major listing agents in Orlando reporting their hands full with residential buying and selling since the beginning of the season.

Home Buyers are fueling median residential real-estate prices in Orlando

The median price of properties in Orlando was recorded as $160,000 in March 2014. Just a month ago, the rates stood 1.27 percent lower, at $158,000. The rise in median prices is being fueled by increased demand from prospective buyers – a trend characteristic of the spring buying season.

Realtors unanimously hold the spring buying season a good time to buy residential properties, especially for first-time buyers. According to the experts in Orlando short sales, the median rates of short sales in March 2014, witnessed a 4.59 percent hike from the value same time last year.

With the short-sale inventory expanding, the spring season is also expected to bring new opportunities for buyers who haven’t been able to find suitable deals yet. Compared to the number of foreclosed homes available for purchase in March 2014, a fairly large number of foreclosed homes were made available to buyers in March this year (125 percent more than in March 2013). Homes also spend lesser time on the market now, than they did a year ago. The average listing period in March 2014 was 76 days, compared to the 79 days in 2013.

Making the most of the home-buying season

Conditions in the Orlando real estate market seem to be ideal for residential buyers now. Banks are easing up on home loans, the rates of fixed and variable-rates mortgages are decreasing and the market has plenty of options in different price ranges. Further, with Florida’s diversifying economy and its growing reputation as a premium retirement destination in all of the US, many prospective buyers are showing foresight by investing in properties during the season.

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Orlando Home Buyers Buy Their House Back After Losing It To Foreclosure!

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Every once in a while we hear a story about something that inspires us and that reminds us that good things still happen in the world. In this case, it was about one of our clients, Jose and Mary Guadalupe had gone through some financial hardships due to loss of employment and ultimately ended up losing their South Orlando dream home located in the Meadow Woods sub-division to public foreclosure auction.

After it went through the foreclosure process another family bought it and just 2 years later, they hired our Company to complete a short sale on the property. And so we did then we actually ended up buying it ourselves as a re-hab property. We completely rehabbed the home installing new cabinetry, flooring, fixtures, etc. The day I went to put a “For Sale” in the yard was the day I met the Guadalupe family for the first time.

These Orlando Home Buyers Never Gave Up Hope

They went on to tell me their story about how they lost their dream house to foreclosure and about the deep depression the family went through because of that experience. Since going through that experience, Mr. Guadalupe was now employed as a local truck driver for over 2 years and their financial situation had really turned around for the better. As a matter of fact, the family had recently been house hunting in that same neighborhood for the past several months never finding one that interested them.

Mrs. Guadalupe claimed that she would drive by her old house several times per week just hoping that one day it would be for sale. Then one day came when they spotted me installing our sign in the front yard. After listening to their story, I was happy to show them around the newly renovated home. It didn’t take long for Mrs. Guadalupe to start getting teary-eyed as she walked into the kitchen where she had prepared thousands of home-cooked meals for her family. ” My kids were raised in this house,” she said. It was right then and there that we decided to do everything in our power to help the Guadalupe family get back the house that they had lost just a few years prior.

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Typically, it’s much harder to get a mortgage on a property after you’ve gone through a foreclosure or short sale and it used to be that you would have to wait 7 years before you could even apply for a mortgage but with the new lender guidelines in place it could go down to only 3 years for some people. Although buying back the same home that you lost to foreclosure is extremely rare, the Guadalupe family is among a recently emerging group of purchasers, that were able to get back into the housing market under new, more forgiving lender guidelines.

With these new rules in place, thousands of Central Floridians who have gone through foreclosure have the potential to make buying a home a reality again. Over 100,000 homeowners in Orlando have lost their homes to foreclosure or short sale since the real estate crash of 2007.

 

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Developers Say the I-Drive Project Will Not be Named Orlando Eye 360

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As the work on constructing a giant observation wheel at the International Drive is going on in full swing, the tourist corridor of Orlando has a lot of things to look forward to. The word was, that the overall project, that the observation wheel is a part of, is to be named the Orlando Eye 360 by its developers. The news was, however, brushed off by developers as they prepare to make an official announcement soon.

Other Than Orlando Eye 360 What is in the pipeline of Merlin Entertainments?

Merlin Entertainments Ltd. is working on a couple of attractions for the state and come 2015, the second-largest operator of visitor attractions in the world will unveil three attractions – the Orlando chapter of Madame Tussaud’s wax museum, the Orlando Eye and the Sea Life Orlando Aquarium.

The three attractions are part of a massive Orlando real estate project – the construction of a towering complex for shopping, dining and entertainment, that is being developed by NY-based Circle Entertainment Inc. and Orlando’s own Unicorp National Developments Inc. The multimillion-dollar Orlando Eye project on the International Drive (projected to cost over $200 million) is planned to be completed in phases – work in certain phases is already over.

For instance, the real estate agents in Orlando reveal that the International Drive will see Orlando’s first Yard House open for business on April 24. The popular restaurant adds to I-Drive’s impressive line of new and upcoming restaurants including Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant, BJ’s Brewhouse and the Red Robin. Local real estate agents believe that the Yard House alone would bring around 200 jobs to the I-Drive area in the form of servers, hosts, hostesses, line cooks and bar tenders to name a few.  Not to mention, new and better dining options for the area’s tourist corridor.

The project was developed with Orlando’s tourism industry in mind. International Drive’s convention area will get some much-needed entertainment, wining-dining and leisure options after the project ends. It will boost the tourism industry of the area that is currently valued at about $50 billion. The entire project will also boost employment in the area as it is expected to brings thousands of new jobs.

Merlin Entertainments is planning for a press event, to be hosted later this month, during which developer Unicorp plans to unveil the new name of the project. While speculations were high in the Orlando real estate scene that the project would be named the “Icon Park”, Chuck Whittall, the President of Unicorp denied, saying the firm would announce a different name.

The name has become a special area of interest, particularly because of the frequent changes made to it. Previously it had names like the I-Drive Live and I-Walk Orlando associated with it. Only Unicorp can tell what new moniker the project will adopt.

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This Spring May Just be the Best Time to Buy a Home in Orlando

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The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation has some good news for all real estate buyers. Results from a new survey conducted by the Virginia-based government-sponsored enterprise, point toward a slight dip in the mortgage rates across all of America.

The spring buying season has commenced and decreased mortgage rates may be just the extra push that home buyers need to kick-start their spring purchases. The average rate of interest on a standard 30-year home loan reached 4.34 percent in the week beginning April 7. Only a week ago, the rates stood at 4.41 percent.

 What does this mean for Orlando real estate buyers?

Have you been thinking about purchasing a property in Orlando? It would make good financial sense to get started now. According to top Orlando short sales experts, mortgage rates are decreasing overall sectors. The average rate on standard 15-year fixed loans also dipped from 3.47 percent to 3.38 percent, the same week. These dips, though not enormous, are substantial nevertheless and present a good opportunity to make a residential real estate investment.

Fixed mortgage rates are not the only dipping bunch. Hybrid ARMs (adjustable-rate mortgages) also spiraled downwards slightly when compared to their rates a week ago. The rate for single-year ARM reduced from 2.45 percent to 2.41 percent. Five-year ARMs followed the trend, slipping from 3.12 percent to 3.09 percent in the same week.

With the industry heavily divided in its mortgage predictions for subsequent weeks, many realtors are encouraging prospects to gear up on their residential property plans. Real estate agents in Orlando have numerous listings on their hands, owing to the wide selection of residential complexes being constructed in the metropolitan area. Luxury apartments typically find buyers fast and disappear from the hands of listers in a shorter span of time.

What could the future look like?

The Mortgage Rate Trend Index saw 38 percent of analysts predict a steady decline in the rate of fixed and adjustable-rate mortgages over the next week. Another 38 percent predicted steady rates over the next few weeks. A total of 24 percent of participating analysts predicted the rates to rise in the next week. Realtors in Hunters Creek speak of the high spring buying trend in the metropolitan area – something they have been witnessing for years. They expect the spring buying season to be the same, asking potential buyers to make the best of the downward spiraling mortgage rates in the spring buying season.

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