TeamDuncan Blog

I’m glad to relay the latest figures from the National Association of Realtors which, on Nov. 17th, reported that first time buyers accounted for a record 47 percent share of home sales over the past year, up from 41 percent in 2008. To put this into perspective, that’s a whole 11 percent more than [...]

Kudos to Washington for extending the $8,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers and for expanding it to provide up to $6,500 in credits to homebuyers moving up into new primary residences. This brings much needed opportunity to many more homebuyers who want to get into the market and helps to provide greater stimulus for [...]

I was so pleased to see that two local Sarasota celebrities, HGTV’s Design Star Contestant Jason Champion and “Chic on the Cheap” author Mark Dalton will face off on a home style competition for Manatee County Habitat for Humanity and unveil their designs for two Habitat homes on Saturday, November 14. The proceeds [...]

With summer over and our season about to “kick in,” many of our customers who took advantage of great pricing to jump into the vacation rental market are now wondering how to go about renting those properties, more specifically, if they should hire a management company or try to go it alone.