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Fabulous and fully furnished 2-story single family estate home for sale in central Boca Raton. This custom built home features 5 bedrooms, 6 baths, 2-car garage and a private in-ground swimming pool. This special home is located in the popular Thornhill Green subdivision of Montoya Circle.

Beautifully designed and decorated, this elegant home is a cook and entertainer’s dream. The large kosher kitchen which overlooks the pool and patio is light and bright and offers two sinks, two dishwashers, double oven, granite countertops and breakfast room.

The master suite with its magnificent master bathroom and two walk-in closets is located on the first floor while the remaining four bedrooms can be found along with the loft/TV Room on the second…

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Newport Bay Club

 

Karen Rothstein found her buyer this fabulous deal on a singled story 3 bedroom, 2 bath pool home built in 1989 in a fantastic neighborhood in Boca Raton. Karen’s buyer purchased this 1868 square foot home with gorgeous views of the lake and pool for only $410,000 (asking price was $435,000 ~ reduced from $479,000). The seller paid $355,000 for this home in 2003. This contemporary home had a brand new roof, an updated bathroom, and numerous other upgrades. Newport Bay Club is a fantastic non-equity top tennis community. Located on Jog Rd in the “Millionaire’s Row” of Boca, Newport Bay is a gated community with tennis, pool, clubhouse, and fabulous exercise facilities. Newport Bay is known as a top tennis community with a wonderful…

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A new Boca Raton real estate Broker is in town!

I am so pleased to announce that the brand new Boca Expert Realty LLC is now open for business. It has been my dream to open a brokerage where the focus will be on providing excellent representation to buyers and sellers of Boca Raton real estate and the surrounding areas. Our in-depth knowledge of the local market, as well as years of experience with hundreds of real estate transactions, combined with an emphasis on cutting-edge technology is sure to benefit our current and future real estate clients.

We are centrally located at 2000 Glades Rd in the Bank of America building. Anyone interested in an innovative and personalized real estate experience should call us at 561.347.6444 or email…

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buy-vs-rent-home_200The latest rent ratios were released by Moody’s and can be seen in this New York Times article, giving support to the argument that in South Florida at least it is looking like it is more worthwhile to buy than to rent in today’s market of depressed home prices.

The rent ratio is the purchase price of the property divided by the annual cost of renting that property. The premise is that if the ratio is more than 20 (as in New York City for example), it is a better economic decision to rent. When the ratio is less than 15, the advantage tilts to owning. Between 15 and 20 is up in the air, but of course these ratios do not take into consideration potential price appreciation.


Because of the low prices and amazing opportunities in the Boca…

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Property Tax Good GriefBeginning Monday, August 23, 2010, the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s office mailed the proposed property taxes for 2010. In the notice, there is a breakdown of millage rates , the property’s assessed and taxable values (as of January 1, 2010), and any exemptions applied. Read your notice closely. Although unfortunately millage rates have gone up in most areas, the values have declined. (example: I am an owner of Boca Raton Real Estate. My market value declined 10%, however my tax bill increased because the local taxing authorities increased their millage rate.) If you disagree with the value, or an exemption has not been applied, you have between now and September 16, 2010 to file a petition. With property values plummeting in the area, many…

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I just sold this gorgeous courtyard home in the Courtside subdivision of Broken Sound Country Club. For those of you who don't know the lingo, a Courtyard Home is one in which the swimming pool and patio are in the front of the house. You usually enter through the entrance doors into a courtyard and then the front door of the house is through the courtyard. Many courtyard homes in Boca Raton have detached guest houses as well.

 

This stunning home in Broken Sound Club has four bedrooms and four baths in the main house, in addition to a one bedroom suite guest houses. It has beautiful Brazilian wood floors throughout, and over 3400 square feet in total. 

Broken Sound Club is an equity country club in a fabulous central Boca Raton location. 

This was…

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I just sold this awesome house in Trieste in Addison Reserve Country Club in Delray Beach Florida. It closed on April 30, 2010 and was listed in late February 2010. The buyers will be using this as a vacation home and got a great buy at $500,000 for the property which was listed at $619,000. With three bedrooms, three baths, a gorgeous pool and spa and golf course view, with a transferable golf membership. Although the membership equity is a separate fee, not all homes in Addison Reserve come with full golf and those that do generally command a higher price since the golf memberships are limited and there is a lengthy waiting list. The house was built in 1999 and was in excellent condition, as a matter of fact the buyer purchased all the furniture in…

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I just sold this fabulous condo in Sea Ranch! It is on the tenth floor of the "A" building, with fabulous ocean and intracoastal views from every room!

This condo is two bedrooms, two baths, and over 1900 square feet under A/C. The Boca Raton condo was originally listed in November of 2009 for $629,000 and then subsequently reduced to $585,000. My client picked up this great unit for $530,000!

Sea Ranch is a wonderful guard gated oceanfront community in Boca Raton with four towers, pools, tennis courts, exercise facilities, a marina and private beach access.

Our buyer clients are still getting great deals on Boca Raton Condos as well as all Boca Raton Real Estate.

Besides Sea Ranch, other popular buildings include Toscana and Marbella.

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‘IF YOU CAN FIND ME A “GREAT DEAL” PLEASE LET ME KNOW…THAT’S WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR!”

 

This is probably the most frequent request I hear when working with a buyer looking for Boca Raton real estate.  Of course I haven’t met anyone who has said, “price doesn’t matter”. The truth of the matter is really quite simple. It’s all inventory whether it is a Boca Raton short sale, Boca Raton Foreclosure or a regular deal (an arm's length transaction between a motivated buyer and seller). What is different about each one of those sales is the process that you undertake to purchase the home.

 

Yes, it is important to know the difference between a short sale and a foreclosure because since the process is different, a short sale or foreclosure may not be a viable…

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I have been spending some time examining the Boca Raton real estate market and the underlying statistics of what is happening in our area. I think it's important to discuss the market in terms of price bands, as we have a wide range of inventory and price ranges in our local market. As an example, I have analyzed the current situation for single family homes in Boca Raton, in various price ranges. Check out this chart below:

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What is most interesting to me is that the number of months of inventory for homes priced between $750,000 and $999,999 is a whopping 92 months! Only two homes in this price range sold in February 2010 out of 193 listings! Not that it's so great for homes over a million, but they are actually faring better, with 45 months supply.…

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