Starting 12/1/13 through the end of the Winter Season we will be collecting slightly used or new shoes for our area poor and or the Homeless. We need shoes of all sizes Men, Women, Boys, and Girls. Please stop by our Office at 1 Executive Court at the Rivers Hills red light where we will have a collection box outside and help us shoe the underprivileged this Season.
Lake Wylie Realtors
LKW Realty provides Food and Refreshments for Chamber Golf Charity Event
The Realtors of LKW Realty spent the day Thursday October the 10th at River Hills cookin up the food for the Chamber of Commerce’s annual Golf charity event. Quinn Johnson manned the Caribbean Grille featuring Filet Mignon and Shrimp Kabobs along with jerk Chicken.
Lake Wylie Realty Helps Cleanup Efforts during the 2013 Riversweep
Realtors from LKW Realty participated in the River Sweep on Saturday 10/5/13, using the LKW Realty Pontoon Cruiser.
Agents took Students from Charlotte Catholic High School along to help clean the banks of Waterfront Properties.
LAKE WYLIE WATERFRONT LOT REPORT “IT’S A BUYERS MARKET” 9/15/13
Waterfront Properties for sale have increased to 146 listings as of 9/15/13 further increasing supply of vacant undeveloped waterfront lots. Demand for Waterfront Lots has decreased since the Great Recession started, primarily because of the lack Financing available.
Only 29 lots have sold on the Lake this year in Gaston, Mecklenburg and York Counties. The average sales price was $215,000, and days on the market were over 227.
Realistically the glory days in lots sales are over for now and the near future because of the lack of financing. Prices are declining back to the late 1990’s to early 2000 levels. Its a great Buyers Market for Waterfront Properties on the Lake.
Lake Wylie Realty welcomes Quinn Johnson
Quinn Johnson of River Hills has joined The Lake Wylie Realty Man Team as Broker Associate. Quinn has been a Licensed Broker in both Carolinas for more than a decade. His past experience includes Development, Commercial and Residential Sales. For the past seven years Quinn has specialized in sales and marketing of Homes and Home sites in “Lifestyle Communities”. Quinn and his Wife Kara live in River Hills and both grew up in Lake Wylie and are now raising three Children of their own in that same Community. Quinn can be reached at 704-906-6636 or email Quinn@lkwrealty.com
JERRY PLAGEMAN JOINS LAKE WYLIE REALTY
We are very pleased to announce Jerry Plageman has joined Lake Wylie Realty as Realtor/Associate. Jerry is a former Lake Wylie Man of the year and is a 30 Resident of the River Hills area of Lake Wylie. Jerry is married to Phyllis and has two daughters Jenifer and Elizabeth. Jerry has been a Partner in the Shopps in the Landing and in Commercial Real Estate for over 10 years. and will be specializing in River Hills Real Estate along with Lake Wylie Waterfront Properties and Commercial Properties. Jerry can be reached at 704-293-5136 or email at jerry@lkwrealty.com
Real Estate Company opens at Lake Wylie
Published: Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 / Updated: Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2013 01:12 PM
Real estate company opens at Lake Wylie
By John Marks – jmarks@lakewyliepilot.com
Don Stephens has decades of experience selling local real estate including two dozen years in the building where he is now, and even he was surprised at what he saw when Lake Wylie Realty opened.
Foot traffic – something increasingly less common in the online world of real estate. Stephens and partner David McCorkle chalked it up to their location’s long history of selling properties along the lake.
“This is a great place to do business,” Stephens said.
The pair recently opened Lake Wylie Realty in what was for years the First Properties of the Carolinas space in the Wilkerson Building. Before that, First Properties was River Hills Realty. Stephens worked for the business under both names, then for another agency when First Properties moved out in 2011.
Now he feels back home in the office that was designed to sell real estate, and at home with an improving selling market.
“We feel like there’s been a turn,” Stephens said.
McCorkle began in residential real estate in 1978 before going into real estate development and planning. Now the lifelong area resident, who built his own home on the lake, wants to end his career where he started it.
“Our main product is going to be waterfront properties in North and South Carolina,” he said. Eventually we’ll get into doing more commercial.”
River Hills, Tega Cay, the Allison Creek area and other spots will make up many of the company’s listings. Already there are listed properties from $200,000 to $1.2 million. McCorkle hopes the “downtown Lake Wylie” location of his office lends to bringing in the right sellers and buyers. He’s also counting on Stephens with his more than 400 waterfront sales.
“We both live on the lake,” McCorkle said. “We both have boats, and we can show properties by land and by water.”
More agents, likely ones already experienced with selling waterfront properties, are planned. Lake Wylie Realty has the online tools and other features of the modern market, but also wants to lean on its strengths by appealing to buyers and sellers looking for something unique.
“We’re not selling homes,” Stephens said. “We’re selling a lifestyle. We say come home to a vacation every night.”
The company is located at 1 Executive Court, Lake Wylie. For more information, call 704-309-1549 or visit lkwrealty.com.
Lake Wylie Real Estate Report thru September 2013
Currently there are 119 waterfront Homes for sale in both Carolinas, with an average list price of $843,000:
There have been 75 Closings so far this year on the Lake with an average sales price of $619.000, 3400 square feet of living space and an average of 144 days on the market. Waterfront lots for sale have increased to 140 and are price from $45,000 to over 2 Million with an average price of waterfront lots at $292,000. 35 lots have sold so far this year as of October 2013 for an average of $220,000 and an average of 276 days on the market.
