
A time for friends, family and festivities, the holiday season is right around the corner. And while it may look a bit different than in years past, it will likely include at least some of the normal hoorah of the holidays: decorating, cooking and gift giving. Ensure the Grinch doesn't pay you a visit in the midst of the prep and planning with these holiday safety tips.
O' Christmas trees, how lovely are their branches? It's hard
to beat a tree decked out with lights, ornaments and tinsel. Help children hang ornaments and keep any that may look like treats to toddlers or pets high on the tree. Only use lights that were tested from a recognized laboratory to help...

Over the last few years, I've come to realize what everyone reading this needs to realize. We as REALTORS® are simply in marketing: the business of marketing our value.
A real estate agent's true job (the number one job) is marketing your value to potential buyers and sellers. This is a contact sport; everything else is secondary. Marketing is the big rock you fit in first and squeeze everything else around it. How much time are you spending on mark...

Just months after launching their newly redesigned website, Bellator Real Estate & Development received national recognition for its design. On Oct. 30, 2020, REAL Trends, a recognized real estate news, analysis and information source, released its annual Real Estate Website Rankings. According to the company, REAL Trends web consultants reviewed nearly 400 residential real estate we...
Bellator agents and staff are always striving to better themselves personally and professionally by serving their communities. We are proud two of our agents will be serving their fellow REALTORS® next year within local and national real estate organizations:

Kate Irvine, an agent in Bellator's Eastern Shore Office, has been named to the 2021 Baldwin REALTORS® Board of Directors. Members of the board are elected to server their fellow Baldwin County REALTORS® in this leadership position.
Alabama's Gulf Coast contains several real estate markets depending on location and price point – just to name a few factors. The graphic below shows real estate statistics for September 2020, the latest month available.

Vital Signs provides a visual representation of what's happening in several local markets by showing you supply. The colored-coded numbers represent the absorption rate, the number of months it would take to sell every home on the market in a particular price range if no others were added. If the market is moving quickly, the absorption rate will fall below six months of supply, and if it's more of a buyer's market, it will jump above six months of supply...