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Covington Kentucky Homes for Sale – Covington KY Real Estate

Click on the link below to be taken directly to a Northern Kentucky MLS search of homes for sale in Covington KY.  Real Estate in Covington Kentucky is diverse and I’m sure you will find what you are looking for here.

 

Covington KY MLS Real Estate Search

So… What are QR Codes? Do I need one?

Have you seen one of these around lately?  There’s a pretty good chance that this looks familiar.  They’re called Quick Response (QR) codes.  Originated in Japan by one of Toyota’s subsidiaries, they’re comparable to bar codes. The design however, allows for much more information to be stored and it can be accessed more quickly…hence ‘Q’uick ‘R’esponse.

With a quick download of a QR reader to your smart phone you can use the camera function to access the stored information. The uses vary based on application, but they can store url’s, text and other information.  For example, the one above is actually all of my professional information – Name, Phone #, Email Address, Website url and Business Address.  Who needs business cards anymore?  Or instead of using your card reader app (which are consistently inaccurate), you can scan a QR on the back of your contact’s business card an instantly have all of the information stored to your phone.  I definitely plan on including one on the back of my next batch of cards.

You can download a reader from several sources online, through iTunes or from the Android app store.  (Google and Apple aren’t the only supported platforms.) I’ve used two for my iPhone; “i-nigma 4″ (free) andOptiscan ($1.99).  Surprisingly, the free one has actually performed better for me.  If you’d like to make one of your own, go to Kaywa.com.  It’s incredibly simple to do.

Marketing will be the most common application as I can see it.  Granted, at this point, only my most tech savvy potential clients will appreciate them, but as the technology develops they will become more common-place.  In my business I plan on using them on property flyers to direct consumers to a single-property webpage, include basic property information and link them to a Virtual Tour of the home.  The one above is already on the bottom of my new site NickDailey.com.

QR codes can be added to any print media that you are currently using.  A subscriber to your magazine or newsletter can quickly attain information about your product or service.  You could include coupons, contest links, product information, contact info or any other info you want your customer to have immediately.

I’m looking forward to seeing the creative ways advertisers begin to incorporate the technology into their campaigns.

 

How do you see these becoming advantageous to your business??

 

 

Real Estate – Kenton County – Independence – 2157 Lunar Lane – 41051

Awesome 2 year new, 2-story home!  3 Bedrooms, 2 full and 1 half bath.  Walk-out lower level.  Large open foyer, spacious master suite.  Please click here for the full MLS listing sheet.  Call Nick Dailey at 859.344.5747 with any questions about this home, or any other for sale in Northern Kentucky.

Currently being offered at only $189,900!!

For more about Northern Kentucky Real Estate, please visit www.NickDailey.com. 

Fort Thomas – Building Lot – 1 + acre homesite – Hawthorne Avenue 41075

Only 4 Homesites left!!!!  Up to 1.25 acres in Fort Thomas!!  River Views.  Walk-out sites.  Surrounding homes from $500K-$1MM+.  Call Nick Dailey at 859.344.5747 for more information.  Or click here for one of the full MLS listings.  $120K-$150K.

You can bring your own builder, or use one of ours. 

For more information about these sites or any northern kentucky real estate, please visit  www.NickDailey.com.

Northern Kentucky MLS Search – Maps – Northern Kentucky MLS Listings NKY – Homes for Sale

I’m really excited to introduce an MLS search feature that ALL potential homebuyer’s will find helpful.  This is some pretty cutting-edge technology, and it’s FREE…and best of all, there is NO REGISTRATION required!  If you’re looking to search the Northern Kentucky MLS, there’s no better place to do it.  This feature is AWESOME!!

I’ll walk you through how to access the map search and how to take advantage of some of its features.  I highly recommend reading the entire post, but if at any time you feel like you’ve got a handle on it (Google Maps is the base), or you just want to work though some of it yourself, look for the Northern Kentucky MLS link posted beneath each picture.  Additionally, if the picture seems a bit too small, just click on it and a larger version will open up for you.

First, you’ll need to navigate to NickDailey.com.  Once you’re at the homepage, there are 2 ways to access the MLS Search.  (The results will encompass every listing currently active on the MLS, not just RE/MAX listings.)

HOMEPAGE

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MAP SEARCH

Once you reach the MLS Search page, it will default to the ‘Quick Search’.  You’ll need to click on the ‘Map Search’ tab.  All of the red dots are cities where listings are available.  Look just above the map on the right-hand corner, and you’ll see how many cities are in each view.  You can zoom in and out, or drag the map around until you get to the area you’re interested in.  Or, you can enter your criteria into the search boxes above, and it will populate the map with only those specific properties.

Northern Kentucky MLS

SATELLITE & HYBRID MAPS

If you’d like, you can also view the map as a ‘satellite’ image, or a ‘hybrid’ image that contains both satellite imagery and named streets.  This is easily accomplished from the menu directly above the map.  I guess now is a good time to mention the other choice here.  If you’d like to see your results in a more traditional manner, click the ‘List’ button and you’ll be able to view the listings that way, with all of the information below included…but it’s not as fun .

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CITY/ZIP CODE FEATURE

When you move your curser over each of the dots, you will see a pop-up that tells you exactly how many houses are for sale in each city, and what the average asking price is.  Sweet!!  Click on the ‘click to search’ link, and it will take you to all of the available properties in that city.

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LISTINGS

Once you have the area that you’d like to live featured on the map, you’ll see little blue (all listings) and red (RE/MAX listings) houses.  Each of these is an active listing.  When you move your mouse over each of the houses, you’ll see another pop-up.  That will give you the asking price, the number of bedrooms/bathrooms, a photo of the home and an option to get more information about the home or save it to your account.  (I told you this was AWESOME!!)

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STREET VIEWS

After you’ve decided that you’d like more information about the home, and clicked through, you’ll be taken to a detailed listing page.  This will give you a better description, more photos (where avaiable), room sizes and a whole host of other options.  Want to know what the neighborhood is like…?  Clicking on the icon to the right will get you to a street view of the home that will let you navigate the entire area!!

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BALLOON VIEWS

Curious as to whether or not there are neighbors behind your new home?  Or just how close the homes are?  Click on the ‘Balloon View’ icon.

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NEIGHBORHOOD INFORMATION

The ‘Neighborhood Information’ icon will pull up some useful information as well.

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RECENT HOME SALES

And lastly, but definately not least, you can pull the most recent home sales in the area by clicking on ‘Recent Nearby Home Sales’ icon.  This will pull a map of the immediate area with little pink signs on it.  Clicking on each of the signs will pull up information about that home.  Most importantly, it will identify the sales price, but it also gives you mortgage information, square footage, when it closed, bedrooms/bathrooms and the size of the lot!!!

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That should give you a pretty good feel for this feature…I hope.  If there are any additional questions, either about my site, or the current real estate market here in NKY, feel free to contact me at any time.  You can find my # and email at NickDailey.com, your home for everything real estate.

Neltner Plaza – Commercial Retail Space for lease: Florence Boone County Kentucky KY

Property Description:
Brand new construction located next to Boone County High School with visibility on KY 18.  Traffic counts of 17K+ VPD.  Still time left to build-out.  Plenty of parking with over 50 spaces available.  Great demos in one of KY’s fastest growing counties.  Available summer ’08. CAM’s are currently being quoted at $2.50.

Location Description:
Plenty of rooftops to help your retail business thrive.  Located just minutes from both I-75 and I-275.  Rt 18 is a major through road for the county.

Construction Status:	Under Construction/Proposed	Traffic Count:	17000
This is a Build to Suit Lease

Exterior Rendering

Type:	Retail Free Standing Bldg
Total Space Available:	10,787 SF
Divisible To:	1,232 SF
Maximum Contiguous:	4,265 SF
Building Size:	13,739 SF
Year Built:	2008

For more information about this property, please click Contact Me.  For more information about Northern Kentucky real estate, please visit www.NickDailey.com.

Is it really that bad?!?

With all the gloom-and-doom articles out there, it’s pretty hard to feel confident about (fill-in-the-blank). In particular, real estate. You cannot go one day without seeing some sort of article about how bad things are.  Is it the best time to sell a house?  Maybe not.  Were there still over 2600 people that have successfully sold a home (single-family, condo, multi-unit) in NKY over the past six months?  Yes. 

The best advice I can give is to not pay attention to the national news media, and get in touch with a local real estate professional to give you up-to-date statistics on what is going on in your neighborhood.  You wouldn’t pay attention to the weather forecast for California to decide what to wear for the day, would you?  Why pay attention to their real estate market when it has nothing to do with whether or not your home will sell?   A successful home sale is still based on the same things: your asking price, your competition, and how well your home has been maintained.  Period.   The number of foreclosures in Tampa FL will not affect how quickly your home sells.  I promise.

Even some of the national media postings are contradictory.  Take the following graph for example.

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They’d like to have you believe that the little tail at the top of the graph indicates the end of the real estate world as we know it.  What they don’t take into account is the bulge that threw the entire scale off…  Everyone in the industry knew, even if they didn’t want to admit it at the time, that the boom couldn’t last forever.  But what does this graph really show?

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It shows that we’re actually right about where we should be if you take out the egregious influx that we experienced.  As with anything you read, please take the national articles with a grain of salt.  And I’d like to reiterate, the most important and relevant information you can attain is from a local professional. 

For more on Northern Kentucky real estate, please visit my site at www.NickDailey.com.

Restaurant for Sale – Florence KY 41042 Houston / Turfway Rd. $1.35MM

Property Description:
Formerly Fudruckers. Approximately 5800 SF. Surrounded by other restaurants and retail.  High Traffic Counts/Easily Retrofitted to your needs/All Fixtures and Equipment Included/2 walk-in fridges and 1 freezer.

Location Description: 1355 Hansel Dr Florence KY 41042
Located in the heart of Florence KY (Boone County is KY’s fastest growing), and less than .5 mile from the Turfway exit of I-75. Immediate Neighbors include: Dick’s Sporting Goods, Linens’N'Things, Steak and Shake, O’Charley’s, Longhorn’s Steakhouse

Own this prime piece of real estate today!

Contact Nick Dailey about this property

Site Plans, Plats, and other docs available.

Please visit www.NickDailey.com for more about this commercial property, or any others in Nothern Kentucky or Greater Cincinnati.

Search the Northern Kentucky (NKY) MLS

**UPDATE: Please also see this post, as it provides more details and highlights a new map search feature**

NO REGISTRATION!!  For complete access to every home that is currently listed on the real estate market in the Northern Kentucky MLS, all you have to do is click the link to my website (NORTHERN KENTUCKY MLS) at the bottom of this post.  As a web consumer/surfer myself, I hate getting just close enough to the information that I want, only to see a pop-up asking me for my name, email, phone #, first-born child…  I want my past and potential clients to have easy access to the information that they need and want.

While most people search the MLS for residential, single family listings in Northern Kentucky, there is much more information available.  If you’re lucky enough to be looking for a high-end home in NKY, you can specifically search the Northern Kentucky MLS through my site for luxury homes.  If you’re looking to build a new home here in Northern Kentucky, you can search the MLS for land for sale; please also see my Northern Kentucky new construction page.  Additionally, you can search specifically for condos for sale in the Northern Kentucky MLS. 

Ok Nick, I got it!  Show me homes currently for sale on the NORTHERN KENTUCKY MLS.

Please see www.NickDailey.com for even more information related to the Northern Kentucky real estate market.