Janus Real Estate

01/13/2026

Y’all! I helped clients buy a beautiful chalet at Beech Mountain last year and they have it ready to rent. So cute, right on the mountain - check it out ♥️😊

09/20/2025

In 2013 we moved into a dream home in the heart of NoDa. At the time we both lived and worked out of the front two rooms - the home was large with extra rooms up front and zoned commercial. We were just a block off the main strip and entertainment hub of this uptown Charlotte neighborhood. ~~ Joey a...

02/11/2025

Thinking of selling this year? I can save you thousands
The typically busy spring season is almost here - it's time to start getting your property ready!
I'd love to help, offer over 30 years experience, and charge much less than the vast majority of brokers out there - I help my clients keep more of their equity in their pockets with every sale.
Buying too? I can save you even more 🙂
Let's chat... I'll even provide a free market analysis of your property whether you work with me or not.
[email protected]

12/17/2024

OPEN HOUSE THIS WEEKEND
Saturday 11am - 1pm
Beautiful, open, bright & airy townhome located off Park Road between Madison Park & Myers Park - 5 minutes to Uptown & Freedom Park
Very private, shaded back patio
3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, formal dining and living room
Across from the community pool
Link has info and lots of photos!

MLS # 4192206 – Exceptional location for this brick townhome located off Park Road between Myers Park and uptown. Relax under the shade of the beautiful Japanese maple on your private, fence, brick...

10/24/2024

Beautiful brick Myers Park area townhome off Park Road
OPEN HOUSE Saturday, October 26th 11am - 1pm
837 Park Slope Drive - $579,900
Elegant living in this 3 bedrooms 2.5 bath home with shaded & private brick paver patio, community pool, formal dining room and living room with built-ins and fireplace.
For more info or to set up a viewing: [email protected]

08/20/2024

An ad I ran 2 years ago - real estate commissions have always been negotiable!
I keep getting emails from various Real Estate Schools, the National Association of Realtors, Law Firms, etc. offering classes or online seminars - the one today titled "Navigating the New Commission Rules". Navigating?? Seriously, it ain't complicated. At all.
With that part specifically the only real change is the MLS no longer indicates what commission may be offered by the sellers, if any, of a listed property. That's it. Doesn't mean they aren't offering a commission, it just isn't stated on that platform - in any way or fashion.
So what does that mean? Just that when I show a property to buyers I have to ask the agent if they are offering a commission, and if so, how much? They can also post this information on alternative websites (theirs or ones they subscribe to).
Oh, and you can't mention commission on the Offer to Purchase documents. We didn't have that and weren't doing it before, sooo....
There, saved you the time of a 2-hour class or seminar :)

08/15/2024

The real estate market in Charlotte is cooling down, slowing a bit.
And yes, I'm a broker and I'll say it. Happily say it, because the longer you work in this industry the more rises and falls you'll see. You'll begin to see them coming. Or really *feel* them coming.
Some of us will be honest about this, and others will deny like that will somehow make a difference. Screaming clear skies all the while dodging the rain.
Now, do I think it's a big stop or stall? Nope. It's common end of summer entering into fall for things to slow, during more "normal" years it was almost definite. Busy springs, slower summers, fall bump and then winter slooowwwww. But I do think the crazy times that we've had in Charlotte are paused for a while. But, IMO, just a while - if people still move here like they have been our market will be demand based, which will keep us moving along.
It just might take a bit longer to sell a property. It might lower prices just a bit - I've seen longer "Day on Market" and prices being lowered for homes recently that just 1 or 2 years ago would have flown off the market and asking or over. Great time for sellers. Tough time for buyers.
If you work in the industry long enough you plan for this. You never set your budget, or needed income since you are commissioned, on the high marks. You set your life up to live off the median years, even the slower years if you can. And those big years, the busy ones with lots of sales? That's bonus time, savings time, not "buy a new car" time or jack my lifestyle into orbit time.
You also learn to coach your clients, set realistic expectations, especially if they are selling. When I started, early 90's, an AVERAGE marketing time to sell a home was 30 to 90 days. No one blinked an eye for a home to take more than a week or two to sell. We've come to expect a weekend open house and multiple offers, but that's not the way it always was nor will it necessarily turn back to that. In actuality, there is no normal since the market changes constantly.
How do I know this? By easy and hard lessons in real estate over 33 years.
The Fed may lower rates next month - economic indicators show inflation slowing and there is a lot of expectation that this is their next move. If that happens we'll likely see some of the fence-sitters in the market hop off and buy and the market will move more quickly again. If not, so be it, this is how markets work. Ups and downs, better for sellers or better for buyers. Balance is really what I'd prefer since I work with both.
Best thing to do, if you work in the industry, is always be ready to shift and change and always be aware. Always give your clients the best advice, an honest take on the market will allow you to price correctly, choose your timing correctly, and survive the ups and downs, whether big ones or small ones.
Anyway, cheers! :)

08/08/2024

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This one is the "cute cabins" edition with one just under $200,000 and a couple others in the 200's and 300's plus a cabin & commercial property directly across from the Lake Lure Local beach!

Joey celebrating a successful window install on our workshop project

08/03/2024

3200 Wesley Avenue - 3 bedrooms 2 baths 2-story brick home just 3 blocks from shopping dining & nightlife

08/01/2024

NoDa home - great location
This coming Saturday, August 3rd, 11 - 1
Come see me and check out this cute, 2-story brick 3 bedroom home
$638,500

08/01/2024