ATLANTA — Beacham & Company, REALTORS has chosen the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University as its recipient charity for the third quarter of 2017. The primary fundraiser for Winship is their annual Win the Fight 5K Run/Walk on the campus of Emory University. This year’s race will be held Oct. 14 and marks the fifth…
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PHOTO CAPTION – Kate Kratovil (second from right) of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation (CCF) accepts a check for more than $11,000 from Beacham & Company, REALTORS on July 11 as part of the company’s new quarterly charitable giving campaign called Beacham Gives Back. Also pictured are, from left, David Sirzyk, Beacham Gives Back Q2 captain; Dac…
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PHOTO CAPTION: Zillow CEO Spensor Rascoff purchased this Los Angeles home for $2.4 more than the Zestimate after selling his Seattle home for $650,000 less than the Zestimate – a more than $3 million difference in total value for both homes. Photo courtesy of The Agency and Curbed Los Angeles. The data on Zillow’s…
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Sales of Atlanta residential real estate rebounded a bit in May as the number of homes sold in the five-county metropolitan area rose 1.3% last month compared to May 2016. The modest increase follows two other months this year (February and April) when the Atlanta market experienced declines after two years of positive year-over-year comparisons…
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Above: This home on Dellwood Drive in the Haynes Manor neighborhood of Buckhead sold last month – part of another record year for Beacham & Company in 2017. The home was on the market for $1.195 million. In May, Beacham & Company set an all-time sales record for number of sales in a month, while dollar…
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PHOTO CAPTION: The mothers and daughters of Beacham & Company, from left, (front row) Kristen Sodemann (mom Ruth Skogstad not pictured), Georgia Hart, Jan Hart, Glennis Beacham, Blayne Beacham Macauley, Elise Lowe Baumann, Janey Lowe, Nicole Farmer, Rachel Farmer, (middle row) Shelley Sloan, Lynn Sloan, Charlotte Perry, Douglas Perry, (top row) Gail McCown, Claire McCown, Melissa…
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The number of homes sold in Buckhead declined 6.1% last year as affordable condos and single family detached homes (those priced less than $700,000) were either nonexistent or in less than desirable condition. Sales of homes priced $1 million or more were also a drag on the market, with value relative to asking prices acting…
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Beacham & Company participated in the annual conference for Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE) at the Fontainebleau Hotel in March. The conference and its participants represented 25 percent of all real estate business done in the United States in 2016. Among the conference’s many nationally known speakers was Marci Rossell, formally chief…
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The Spring 2017 issue of Atlanta’s premier real estate magazine, The Beacham Series, recently published featuring 5525 Long Island Drive on the cover. The issue marks the beginning of the magazine’s eleventh year in print. The cover home was originally designed by Keith Summerour and built in 2000 by Benecki Homes. Part of a 1.6-acre…
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We love Millennials. So many of them are smart, sociable, passionate, eager to try new things, and want to be challenged/inspired by their work. It’s a fun generation! Unfortunately, the Millennial generation is trailing previous generations in first-time home ownership rates (near a 30-year low according to NAR). In many ways, this is understandable considering many…
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