Sonoma Isles homes: DiVosta to start selling Monday

DiVosta will open the doors of it's newest sales center in Jupiter on Monday, Nov. 23.  The community is called Sonoma Isles and is located just west of the Florida Turnpike on Indiantown Road (SR706) across from the Toll Brothers community of Jupiter Country Club.

Homes for sale in Sonoma Isles will range in size from 2,488 to 5,100 feet and will be priced from the mid-$600's to over $1 million.

New homes in Jupiter just a few years back were priced from the mid-$300's.  When Lennar began building Rialto, the homes were priced in this range.  But times have changed and new homes are going up again on every remaining parcels of land.

Sonoma Isles is not the only location offering new construction.  So let me show you the best choices to meet your price point and lifestyle.  I have lived here 25 years and know the market inside and out.
You can reach me at 561-762-4073 or richard@coastalflrealestate.com.

If you prefer to search Jupiter homes for sale yourself, all the homes currently listed in the MLS, along with pictures, prices and fees, are available to you by visiting Coastal Florida Real Estate.

Jupiter Farms: Backyard chickens

Jupiter Farms means freedom...freedom from restrictive HOA covenants and the freedom to do as you please.  People move here primarily for this reason and for the large home sites.

One of the things you can do here is own backyard chickens.  With the current sustainability craze, owning chickens is quite the in thing to do.  If you own them, you will learn about their laying habits.

One of which is they lay best when the weather is great, just like it has been this weekend.  Once the really hot weather of the summer is upon us, the number of eggs laid daily will really drop off. Here's a sample of what I picked up yesterday.

Unless you have tried the real cage free eggs you haven't really tasted how good an egg can be.  And those from backyard chickens are much lower in cholesterol than those from industrial production farms and you can supplement their diet with flax to boost Omega 3 in your diet.

If Jupiter Farms sounds like the kind of place you would like to live and are thinking of moving here, let me show you the best deals and locations.  Since this is a 16 square mile area, there are plenty of things to know before you buy.  I have lived here for the last 15 years and can be reached at 561-762-4073.

Pileated woodpecker in my Jupiter Farms yard

One of the reasons people like to live in Jupiter Farms is because we have so much wildlife here. This Pileated Woodpecker was making noise in my front yard so I grabbed the camera and shot this.

 

If you are looking for a home in Jupiter Farms, use a Farms agent. I have lived here 15 years and can show you the best locations. And with sales and prices both going up, the best deals will go quickly. You can search Jupiter Farms homes for sale yourself at Coastal Florida Real Estate or for personal service call me directly at 561-762-4073.

Jupiter Farms: Is it the right spot for you?

Jupiter Farms real estate is often overlooked by people considering moving to this area. Let me tell you the area is one of the hidden jewels of Palm Beach County.

 Let me explain Jupiter Farms and our other western communities.

 

 OK, that is a little bit about our area. Are you looking for the right real estate agent to help you buy or sell in the Farms? I have lived here 15 years and can show you the best locations, great opportunities and the areas to avoid.

 You can reach me at 561-762-4073 or search yourself at Coastal Florida Real Estate where you will get the fastest search results.

Richard Sites

Just Sold in Jupiter Farms

Jupiter Farms is a very large are and we always have plenty of homes on the market.  This one just sold after over 600 days on the market.

It is a 3 bedroom, 2 baths home with about 1,700 square feet of living space and no pool.

Jupiter Farms home

If you are looking at homes in Jupiter Farms, let me show you the best locations.  Unlike many agents I have lived here 12 years.  Contact me, Richard Sites, at 561-762-4073 or send me an email.

Jupiter Farms: It could be the flooring, right?

OK, the house is ready to sell...or so you think. You learned all about staging from HGTV and your agent. 
And you have some great pictures.  But what about the flooring?



Yes, they make a big difference! Thinking of selling or having trouble selling? Let's talk. Usually just a 1% improvement in your value proposition will get you the successful sale you need to move forward with your life. Give me a call at 561-762-4073.

Junk mail on the Internet. Got a phone?

Several years ago when the Internet was "introduced" real estate agents began to migrate to websites to display their listings and comb the web for buyers.  In fact, there is now every conceivable opportunity to look at homes on the web, now called Web 2.0.  But here is my challenge:  Are you really any better off?

 
In the "old days" real estate listings were published in a book each week and buyers had to pour over pages for small print to find possible houses.

Then the Internet allowed us all to see things quickly and easily anytime, anywhere.  But consider what it has also brought us:  clutter!

How has email made things simpler?  Does your Inbox have too much stuff each day?  Do you spend some time every day adding people to your blocked senders list and deleting things?  Of course you do.  Email has now suffered the same fate snail mail did, that is "junk mail".  In fact your first task when going to your mailbox is to stop at your recycling and throw most of the stuff out.

How about your home phone...if you still have one?  Many people don't even answer the phone any more since it is plagued by robo-calls that are not policed by the DNC list.  They just let the phone go to the answering machine (if they still have one) and sort out what messages they want to hear at a later time.

So based on these two things, why would a buyer prowl the Internet signing up on every website only to have the results be lots of information they don't want?  All the information comes from the same MLS database.  IT IS ALL THE SAME INFORMATION.

Every website, whether it be personal, corporate, Realtor.com, Homes.com, Zillow, Trulia and on and on...are all providing the same information.  The ONLY difference is the display format and some companies are spending a fortune to try and display it attractively.  So what do I suggest?  Stop searching for houses and instead search for an agent.

A great agent has tools and software that are better than anything offered on the web.  A great agent knows the market, both geographically and financially.  A great agent knows how to communicate and I don't mean tweeting.

Now here is the really crazy idea:  If you are really serious about buying, how about calling someone?  I know this is a radical idea but you can test their effective with a simple call.  If you don't get a return call within say an hour or two, just move on to another agent.  Hey, getting an automated email response to signing on to a website telling you how important you are is not communication.

Just have a real, old-fashioned phone conversation with someone and see what you think.  Every agent would rather have a conversation with a truthful buyer than waste time chasing Internet leads around or calling them every day.  So tell the agent exactly where you stand in terms of your purchase.  Then let them send you appropriate listings.  The irony is that you may not be able to reach someone, even though everyone has a phone everywhere.  So if you can't reach them on the phone you can cull them off your list.

Let's face it, given a chance everyone pushes the "0" button to speak with a Customer Service Representative so do the same when looking for a home.

OK, give me a test.  Looking for a home in this area?  Call me, Richard Sites, at 561-762-4073, and see how I do.  I have lived in Jupiter for 22 years, I know the area and I know how to answer my phone.  And as the commercials say, "No salesman will call".