 Michael Masters is a leader in the new breed of Socially Responsible Real Estate Consultants with a new vision for the 21st century, investing builders, homebuyers and sellers in how to successfully thrive with social and environmental integrity in the new real estate market. Masters, of Re/Max Ideal Brokers, Inc. in Grants Pass, Oregon, believes that success is achieved when all parties in the transaction are winners. He believes homes built in 2009 and beyond must be different in style, design and concept than those constructed during the housing bubble of the last decade. It is Michael’s socially responsible approach that makes him unique in the real estate business. He and his team of real estate professionals offer buyers and sellers a comprehensive marketing strategy encompassing leading edge, socially responsible and result-producing methods in today’s challenging real estate market. For builders and developers, Michael emphasizes consumer research around the latest buyer trends in new homes and neighborhoods. Michael’s research and experience reveal that green homes or green hybrid homes represent the best potential for future and present profit. With the rapidly changing financial conditions of the global market, Michael believes green homes are the salvation of the building industry since green-type homes tend to be more energy efficient and environmentally friendly. They represent the challenge faced by American products as they strive to regain worldwide status by addressing the needs and demands of the consumer for green homes, products, and technology. An award winning top selling real estate agent in Grants Pass, Oregon, Michael has closed over 10,000 real estate transactions, his business experience includes commercial and residential real estate sales in southern Oregon, leasing, lot sales, new home sales and green home sales in Southern Oregon. With his Southern Oregon real estate showcase project, Summerfield Estates, Michael demonstrates that builders who move toward green construction and offer unique products attract buyers, even in the worst of economies. A vital element for success is to offer today’s customer’s greater value and economy for their increasingly socially responsible and green lifestyles. Social responsibility and green real estate — whether in the Grants Pass or Southern Oregon real estate market, or in markets worldwide — is not a fad, but a new trend in the housing industry that will reinvent North America and the world markets. Michael Masters offers consulting advice to those inside and outside his Southern Oregon real estate market area. He teaches and trains brokers, builders and developers in his approach to a socially responsible real estate sales system. As a speaker, he shares his philosophy by speaking to groups large and small throughout Oregon. Michael’s outlook on the real estate business is both inspiring and entertaining. Grants Pass and Southern Oregon real estate has never been the same since Michael Masters appeared on the scene. 
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Buying Land and New Construction >Buying New or Buying Old
New homes typically have a higher sales price than comparable existing homes, and buyers are usually willing to spend more on a new home because of lower maintenance costs. Builders' warranties on new homes, when combined with a new roof, appliances, and major systems, usually make major repairs unnecessary and help to counter a slower initial rate of appreciation.
Census Bureau Housing Surveys suggests that operating costs are lowest for brand new homes and slightly higher for relatively new existing homes. Operating costs per square foot of living space are consistently higher for progressively older existing homes. Utility costs represent the largest factor in operating costs. Energy consumption per square foot depends on the size of the home, the insulation and quality of the windows, air leakage and the efficiency of the furnace.
New homes require fewer expenditures for routine maintenance. The cost of maintenance first increases with age, then declines, so you will generally spend less maintaining a home built before 1960 than for a home built between 1970 and 1975.
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Michael Masters RE/MAX Ideal Brokers, Inc. 1820 NE 7th Street, Suite 100 Grants Pass, OR 97526 541-660-6006 Fax: 541-476-5637 michaelmasters@NUMBER1EXPERT.com
With sales of over 1500 homes and properties, Michael is recognized as the top selling real estate agent in Grants Pass, Oregon. His business experience includes commercial and residential real estate sales in southern Oregon, as well as leasing, lot sales, new home sales and green home sales in Southern Oregon. Michael and his teams have closed over 10,000 real estate transactions.
When it comes to Grants Pass real estate, Michael Masters is the agent that home owners, investors, builders, developers, and banks with REO's call to solve their real estate challenges in order to get results. 
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