As a real estate agent, I am a little surprised at how often visitors to Fredericksburg misunderstand how real estate listings work in our area.

Because CC Herber Co., Real Estate is located on Main Street in the heart of the shopping district,  many visitors to Fredericksburg look in our front window at the flyers we have displayed of our company’s listings for homes and land. They will then walk into the  office and ask for a flyer with all of our listings and grab a copy of our current newspaper ads, a few real estate magazines, and are ready to bolt out the door on to their next stop.

Then they mention that the are going to stop at ALL THE REAL ESTATE OFFICES in town, to see their listings.

I try to stop them long enough to explain, this simply IS NOT NECESSARY!

All of the real estate brokerage offices in our area belong to the same Board of Realtors. As we each get listings, and with the owner’s permission, we enter those listings in the local MLS. As Board members, we all have access to the same data, which is updated many times daily.

The big name national real estate websites also get their information from our MLS, but it is not always as up to date as the information you can get from a local real estate office. Old listing sometimes linger  long after they are sold and price changes may not make it through cyberspace to update the old information.

The real estate magazines are great to read to get an idea of the market, but they are never up to date. Between the times ads are submitted, the magazine goes to print, and when they are distributed, some listings have been sold, and new ones have come on the market.

So how do you find the most up to date information on homes and property for sale in Fredericksburg, Texas? Find a local real estate agent!

As a Fredericksburg real estate agent, I have not only access to the current listings, but I may also know of properties about to come on the market or those that could be available.

Say your dream home was on a huge piece of land and is over budget? Well, that land owner may be willing to sell the home and less land.

Is another home only 2 bedrooms and you need room for company? As a real estate agent, I know that many of our listings have a guest house.

How about needing more land? I may know if a neighbor to a listing would be willing to sell his property.

There can be a lot of flexibility in Texas Hill Country real estate!

I am Melanie Lehmberg, a real estate agent, with CC Herber Co., Real Estate, and I am here to help you buy or sell your home or land in Fredericksburg, Gillespie County, or the surrounding Texas Hill Country!