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Enchanting Home in Fuquay-Varina on 10 acres

Welcome to 938 Cokesbury Road, Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526

This unique home is nestled on a beautiful 10.8 acre secluded, wooded lot right here in Fuquay-Varina.

The ground/basement level area has it’s very own full bath and fully equipped kitchen. This space makes the perfect Mother-In-Law suite, kids bonus room, or a home office.

The upper main floor of this home has 2 Bedrooms and an open Kitchen/Living room area with plenty of natural light. The Dining Room is an oasis itself with gorgeous views. The Master Suite is located on the 2nd floor with its own private balcony.

Beautiful solid white oak flooring found around home. The screened porch areas are perfect retreats for winding down after a long day or enjoying meals in the outdoors during the upcoming beautiful months!

NO HOA | NOT IN SUBDIVISION

Contact Front Porch Realty for your private tour today!

3 BEDROOMS | 3 FULL BATHS FULL BASEMENT WITH OFFICE | IN-LAW SUITE SCREENED PORCH | BALCONY

1399 Honeycutt Road, Willow Spring, NC, 27592

Check out this charming home with numerous recent updates, it’s move-in ready! Located just outside of Fuquay-Varina in Willow Spring, you aren’t far from any of your necessities!

Beautiful, secluded home on a wooded .93 acre lot. New HVAC system, roof, and windows! Privacy in your own backyard with a beautiful view.

Another wonderful upgrade to this home, new wood laminate flooring throughout the living room area. Enjoy a gas log fireplace to enjoy on these cold winter nights ahead!

Enjoy a separate utility room attached to the kitchen. Kitchen has laminate tile for easy to clean messes. Back doorway leads to the back porch to enjoy a cup of coffee in the early mornings or a late night glass of wine while gazing out into your private backyard.

All Bedrooms have walk-in closets, you certainly are not short on closet space in this home! Master bathroom includes a double vanity, tiled floor, and beautiful chair rail molding!

Bonus time! Enjoy a pre-wired 10×12 Storage Building for all of your handy needs!

This home features a concrete driveway with a private fence around the yard! DO NOT MISS OUT ON THIS AWESOME HOME! Listed at $305,000! Call TODAY: 919-577-0175 to learn more!

631 Whitetail Creek, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 27526

This gorgeous townhome did NOT last long! Only 3 days on the market and 6 offers later, 631 Whitetail Creek is UNDER CONTRACT! This area is continuing to grow and the market is CRAZY! Now is the time to sell your home if you have been thinking about it! Be sure to contact your local Front Porch Realty team for all of your selling and/or buying needs. We update our website with new listings, be sure to check it out! Lovely ranch end unit. 2BR and 2 full baths. Fireplace in living room. In town amenities.

703 SWAN HILL COURT, FUQUAY-VARINA, NC, 27526

  This beauty in Fuquay-Varina certainly did NOT last long. On the market for 3 days..18 offers later, we have a contingent! Be sure to contact your local Front Porch Realty agents for help buying or selling a home! Our website is updated regularly with any new or coming soon properties! PRIME location for this 3 or 4 BR home on the “Holly Springs side” of Fuquay-Varina. Wide-plank laminate flooring in Living Room, Kitchen/Breakfast room and 2 secondary Bedrooms. Dining Room has 2 closets so can be 4th Bedroom or Office; has French doors and a barn door! 3 Bedrooms on 2nd floor, 2 with WIC’s. Nice wide open fenced yard with an adorable wired “She-Shed”. Garden area in side yard as well!

Selling Your Home In Today’s Busy Market

Let’s take a peek inside the local housing market in Fuquay-Varina, Raleigh, and all surrounding areas in the Triangle. You may notice housing inventory is at an all time low right now. Front Porch Realty has seen both sides of the market including the good and the bad and the ugly. With the housing market as crazy as it is lately, we find ourselves writing fantastic offers to buyers that do not make the winning bid along and on top of that some of our listings are selling without the buyer having one showing! With advertisements for so many services popping up every other website I am sure you have come across the “online, easy way to sell your home” ads, maybe even before you came to this blog post. Sure, it may sound amazing to not have to prep your home to be sold and you may be surprised with how much equity you may have. The one thing we can assure you of – listing your home with a local real estate agent and letting your home go on the open market will net even more equity than online. There are quite a few catches to these online real estate companies you may not even be aware of including charging upwards of 10% commission on top all kinds of hidden fees. Think of it like this, they are making their money on the front end then will go turn around and immediately sell your house for more. Please talk to your local Real Estate Agent, you will be surprised to find there is not much prep to be done to sell your home! Heck, most homes are selling “as is” without the buyer even seeing the home in person! Your local real estate professional will have a much better insight on your local market versus an online company that most likely is out of state and has zero clue of the local housing market in your area. At the end of the day, there will be hidden fees, service charges, inspections fees, that could cost you from 6%-13%…NO THANKS! If you’re thinking of selling, now is a fantastic time! FRONT PORCH REALTY Owner and Broker-in-charge, Laura Moody, recently had a chat with one of our FRONT PORCH REALTY agents, Melissa Zappia. See what they had to say HERE! Contact us for more about the real estate market or sign-up for our MONTHLY NEWSLETTER where you’ll stay up to date on community events, new listings and what’s happening in the real estate world – click HERE.

Making Your Offer Standout With an Appraisal Addendum

FRONT PORCH REALTY agent, Donya Clark and FRONT PORCH REALTY Owner and Broker-in-charge, Laura Moody, recently had a discussion about appraisal addendums and how they’ve become quite important when putting in an offer. The market is tough for our buyers right now and FRONT PORCH REALTY agents understand the challenges of putting in a winning offer! Multiple offers are being submitted for homes these days, often at sales prices much higher than what we believe the homes will appraise for. The buyer’s lender will NOT loan more money than the value of the home is worth and this is determined by a licensed real estate appraiser. To assure the sellers that you will not use a low appraisal to try and re-negotiate your terms, an APPRAISAL ADDENDUM can be added to the Offer To Purchase. This attorney written addendum lets the homeowner know the buyer is willing to pay their offer price regardless of what the home appraises for. In other words, the buyer has the cash difference available to bring to closing if the appraised value ends up coming in less than their offered price. Watch Donya and Laura’s video chat HERE. All of our FRONT PORCH REALTY agents strive to make buying a home a positive and professional experience for you. With interest rates at all time lows, its a great time to purchase a home, just make sure you have an agent on your side, Buyer’s Agency representation will not cost you a thing at FRONT PORCH REALTY! Begin your home search now by calling or messaging our Agent on Duty today! 919-577-0175 or send us an email HERE.

Now Is The Time To Sell!

In Front Porch Realty’s 25 year history, there has never been a better time to sell your home than in today’s market! We have a low inventory of homes across all price points and an influx of buyers from all over the country. Super hot LOW interest rates are adding to our buyer pool as first time buyers strive to leave their high-priced rentals and apartments. Multiple offers within days, and even hours, way above list prices are fast becoming the “norm” at FRONT PORCH REALTY. According to our latest Triangle MLS stats, our local inventory is down a whopping 80% from 2020 and our Days on Market is down 68%! Not only is Front Porch Realty selling our listings extremely quickly, we are also accepting offers way over list price with the buyers signing appraisal addendums willing to pay their offer prices regardless of what their lender’s appraised value comes in. Below is a snapshot of February’s 2021 Fuquay-Varina and Holly Springs MLS activity, courtesy of our local Triangle MLS.     Thinking about selling this year but not quite ready? Our “COMING SOON” option may be the perfect solution for you! Potential Buyers are able to get a “sneak peak” of your home before you are ACTIVE on the market ensuring a very quick sale with mimimum showing exposure of your home. Find out what your home is worth HERE, no obligation, just info, we are LOCAL experts and are here to help!

What does that mean anyway: Real Estate Lingo

Real Estate brokers have sometimes been accused of “shortening our words” or using terms that we think everyone already knows!  So, here’s a little helpful guide, if you have trouble navigating real estate terminology! What it says versus What it means conveys with sale … it will STAY with the home EIK … eat in kitchen SS … stainless steel HDW, HWF, Hdwd ….. hardwood floors WIC …walk-in-closet FDR ….. formal dining room MLS...multiple listing system FSBO ….. for sale by owner Pre-approval …  based on information you are able to provide to the lender.  This will look much better than a pre-qualification to the seller. Pre-qualified ….  based on a 5 minute phone call to the lender and only on what you tell the lender.  This is needed in order to even make an offer on a home. due diligence funds …the funds the buyer gives the seller at time of contract to “buy time” off the market while they do their due diligence due diligence or DD…all of the inspections and loan process, etc a buyer can exercise on a prospective home during their due diligence time period Due diligence money- is non-refundable The good news is the money is typically credited towards the purchase of the home at closing. Earnest money is “good faith” money. The buyer is showing the seller they are serious about buying the home. contingency … a contract on a home that is dependent on you selling your existing home 3 BR/2BA  3 bedrooms and 2 baths *************************************************************************************************************************** I’m sure we’ve missed a few, feel free to leave comments with any you might still be wondering about and we’ll do our best to define them. We are here to help you navigate your real estate needs and ALL the terms that come along with that! Welcome home!

4 Tips For Buying A Home In A Hot Market

When a market is hot, finding and buying a home can feel like an uphill battle. In a seller’s market, homes go quickly. They can be on the market one day and gone the next. And on top of the challenge of finding a home, most homes (especially the desirable ones) have multiple offers, making it harder to get into the home of your dreams. But buying a home in a hot market isn’t impossible! You just have to approach it strategically and stack the deck in your favor to find – and successfully buy – the right home for you and your family. Here are four tips for buying a home in a hot market that will put you a step ahead of the home-buying competition: Continue reading →