Sunset Realty

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Was Sunset Affected by the Tornado?

Our offices were not physically impacted by the tornado that spun through the area on Feb 29, 2012. Operationally, we were closed all day Wednesday due to a power outage caused by the storm. We resumed normal business hours the following day (Thursday, Mar 1, 2012).

Were Your Nightly Rentals Affected by the Tornado?

Of the 55+ nightly rentals we professionally manage, only 3 have been affected by the storms. “Anchors Away” at Anchors Point in Kimberling City is temporarily closed while damages are being assessed. 2 condos on the Branson Landing are currently being assessed. We will update this post with additional information as it becomes available.

How much damage was caused to the Branson Area?

Fortunately, the damage caused to the area is isolated to certain areas of Branson. The tornado literally “skipped” down 76 Boulevard missing most of the area attractions, hotels, and shows. Most of the damage is confined to 2 different areas of Branson; Historic Downtown / Branson Landing Area and a section of Hwy 76 West of Gretna Rd.

According to The Branson/Lakes Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, “There are currently very few road closures in the Branson area due to storm damage. Portions of Country Music Highway 76 are currently restricted due to recovery efforts. Currently five or six of the more than 50 theatres in Branson have sustained significant damage as a result of the storms. City of Branson inspection crews are currently assessing the situation.”

The Branson/Lakes Area Convention and Visitors Bureau went on to say, “Approximately 12-15 of the more than 200 hotels in Branson have sustained significant damage as a result of the storms. City of Branson inspection crews are currently assessing the situation. Approximately five to six of the more than 100 attractions in Branson have sustained significant damage as a result of the storms. City of Branson inspection crews are currently assessing the situation.”

Many of the major attractions including Silver Dollar City, White Water, and Outlet Malls have NOT been affected by the storm.

Contrary to some reports seen in national media, Branson is still here. We assure you. For those affected by this unfortunate event, you are in our thoughts and prayers.

Find Boat Slips and Docks For Sale

We have just launched our new boat slip listings page. This new feature allows you to find slips and docks on area lakes for sale by owner. These listings are not MLS listings and won’t be seen on MLS based realty sites around the web. Follow the contact us link found on a slip/dock listing page for more information or to make an offer on one.

List Your Boat Slip

Have a boat slip or dock to sell? We want your listing! Your slip or dock will be exposed to our large, highly qualified, customer base. The setup process is not only simple, its FREE! A brokerage fee is only charged when the slip sells. Contact us today to take advantage of this free marketing opportunity.

Finding Real Estate Bargains

With the recent explosion of foreclosure listings and short sale listings, it has certainly become a buyer’s market. There are many homeowners out there anxious to sell their homes. However, foreclosures and short sales aren’t the only bargains out there. Many homeowners have a large amount of equity in their homes and are willing to price their homes at unheard of prices in order to avoid foreclosure or short sale. Along with bargain new listings, homeowners are reducing their existing listings at alarming rates. In order to help our clients locate these bargains before other potential buyers, we have created two new sections on our site: New Listings and Price Reductions. Both sections are updated daily at 11:00 am CST.

New Listings Page

On our newly listed homes page, you can see properties listed in the last 24 hours, last 7 days, or last 30 days. You can sort by several different attributes by clicking on any blue column shown above the property list.

Price Reductions Page

This powerful new bargain hunting tool allows you see existing home listings that were recently reduced in price. Just like our new listings page, you can see price reductions that occurred in the last 24 hours, last 7 days, or last 30 days. Be sure to bookmark this useful tool to quickly find your dream home before other savvy buyers.

Commercial Real Estate in the Branson / Tri-Lakes Area

As a premier tourist destination, Branson and the surrounding Tri-Lakes area has a large offering of commerical real estate and businesses for sale. On our site, you quickly locate commercial properties and businesses for sale ranging from vacant warehouses and office space to restaurants and motels.

Our commerical listings include extensive information about the business or property including:
• Business type
• Address
• Lease information if available
• List price
• Parking capacity
• Lot specifications
• and much more..

Searching and Sorting Commercial Properties

Our commercial listings are now integrated into our MLS Search. You can search by city, commercial type, age of property, price range, and more. Once you’ve narrowed your results down by using the search, you can sort by price, type, location, and more. If you have any questions about a listing, simply follow the contact us link found on each listing detail page.

Looking for a Home on one of Branson’s Premier Golf Courses?

Branson Missouri has a large offering of beautiful homes for sale located around golf courses. If you’re in the market for such a Branson home, the following golf membership rates should come in handy. There are multiple plans to suit every golfer’s needs and budget. These rates are subject to change but are accurate as of this post.

Holiday Hills Golf Course

* Rates are for Residents only
• Family Rates: $65 per month or $450 per year with Cart.
• Daily Rate: $14 per round of golf.

Stonebridge Resort and Golf Course

* Rates are for Residents only
• Family Rate With Cart: $2660 per year.
• Family Rate Without Cart: $2210 per year.

Pointe Royale Golf Course

* Rates are for Residents only
• Yearly Rate with Cart: $650 per year.
• Yearly Rate without Cart: $600 per year.
• By the Round: $25 per round ($14 extra for cart).

Thousand Hills Golf Course

* Rates are for Residents only
• Yearly Rate Sunday thru Thursday: $1000 per year includes cart.
• Yearly Rate Any Day of Week: $1500 per year includes cart.

Murder Rock Golf Course

* Rates are for Residents only
• Yearly Rate: $2800 per year includes cart.

Branson Creek Golf Course

* Rates are for Residents only
• Yearly Rate: $3000

Contact Us for professional assistance finding the perfect Branson Area Golf Home.

In May, 2011, Dustin and the Sunset Team were selected in 417 Magazine’s “Top 100 Real Estate Agents” list. The Southwest Missouri Realtors on this elite list were selected based on customer service, professional reputation and sales volume. Read the full article at 417 Magazine.

Major updates to Sunset Realty Website

We have just made many new changes to our website. Along with lots of small improvements to the website appearance, we have added several new features to assist our home buyers! The biggest change to the site involves our MLS search and MLS listing pages.

MLS Listing Search Results

Property listing improvements include:

• Layout improvements to property search results.
• Improved pagination for browsing through search results quickly.
• Addition of sorting feature. Sort ascending/descending by property price, beds, baths, location, and more.
• Property detail page now provides extensive information about the property listing.
• Addition of visual icons to quickly recognize foreclosure properties, lake view / lake front properties, featured listings, and more.
• Run a MLS Search to test drive the new features!

Property Comments by The Sunset Team

As local Branson Real Estate Agents, we are very familiar with the local housing market and felt we would share our “inside” opinion on select properties! This information is invaluable to buyers looking for that special Branson home. If the Sunset team comments on a property, it will appear at the bottom of the detail listing page. If you’d like to see all properties we have commented on, visit our new Sunset Top Picks page.

Short Sales and Foreclosure Listings

To assist investors and bargain hunters, we have added 2 new pages which serve as a collection of both Foreclosure homes and Short Sale homes.

Live Chat

Sunset has always put customer service first. In order to quickly answer home buyers questions, we have added a new live chat feature. During normal business hours, a Sunset agent will respond to your questions within seconds. The live chat button appears at the top of every page except the blog pages.

Other Changes

Returning visitors will notice lots of other “bells and whistles” scattered about. All these little niceties are there to improve our website visitor’s overall real estate experience! Check back frequently for more updates and valueable information we are planning.

As of January 26^th, 2010, there were 92 foreclosures and 35 short sales active on the market in Taney and Stone counties.  45 of these are residential foreclosures in Taney counties ranging from a 1 bedroom, 2 bath home in Branson listed for $49,900 to a 4 bedroom, 4 bath home in Branson’s Pointe Royale subdivision listed for $549,900.  Stone County has 27 residential home foreclosures on the market ranging from a 1 bedroom, 1 bath bungalow located down DD Highway outside of Branson West listed for $22,500 to a 4 bedroom, 3 bath home in Kimberling City’s Overlook subdivision for $439,000.  In regard to the condo foreclosure market, there are currently 16 condos in Taney County listed for sale ranging from a 3 bedroom, 2 bath condo at Academy Commons outside of Branson listed for $44,500 to a 2 bedroom 2 bath Branson Landing condo listed for $219,900.  Stone County currently has 4 condo foreclosures on the market ranging from a 2 bedroom 2 bath condo located at Notch Estates for $49,900 to a 2 bedroom, 2 bath Stonebridge Village lodge listed for $124,900. 

Currently, there are 35 short sales listed for sale on the Tri-Lakes MLS.  There are 20 residential short sales in Taney County ranging from a 3 bedroom, 2 bath duplex in Forsyth listed for $69,900 to a 5 bedroom, 4 bath home outside of Branson listed for $369,900.  There are 3 residential short sales in Stone County ranging from a 5 bedroom 2 bath home located down DD Highway outside of Branson West listed for $119,900 to a 4 bedroom, 2 bath home in Branson West listed for $237,900.  4 condo short sales are currently on the market in Taney County ranging from a 1 bedroom, 1 bath condo at Pointe Royale listed for $44,000 to a 2 bedroom 2 bath Branson Landing condo listed for $399,900.  In Stone County, there are 8 condo short sales listed right now ranging from a 1 bedroom, 2 bath lodge at Stonebridge Village outside of Branson West listed at $79,500 to a 3 bedroom, 3 bath lodge also located at Stonebridge priced at $211,750.

Residential foreclosures in Taney and Stone counties represent 26 pending sales in the Tri Lakes Multi List System and foreclosure condos represent 6 pending sales.  From January 1st  to January 26th, 2010, there were 6 residential foreclosure homes that sold in Taney and Stone counties ranging from a 3 bedroom, 1 bath home in Kirbyville that sold for $40,000 to a 3 bedroom, 3 bath home in Branson that sold for $113,500.  1 2 bedroom, 2 bath foreclosure condo at Stonebridge has closed for $82,500.

For more information on foreclosures in Branson and the surrounding area, please e-mail salesteam@sunsetrealtyservices.com.  If you would like to receive new foreclosure listings as they come on the market, complete the form on our home page. 

Did you know that over 8 million people visit the Branson area annually? In today’s economy, this is quite an accomplishment. One reason so many people still head to Branson is our prime location. Nestled in the heart of the Ozark Mountains, Branson is just one day’s drive from 25% of the United State’s population. The newly opened Branson Regional Airport, the first privately owned and operated commercial airport in the U.S., makes it even easier for tourists to reach our family-friendly vacation destination.

While an easy to reach location is great, that isn’t all that draws visitors to Branson and the surrounding area. We’ve got three spectacular lakes, each unique from the others. First and probably best known in the area is Table Rock Lake. With over 700 miles of shoreline and over 43,000 surface acres, this pristine lake is a paradise for boaters, water skiers, scuba divers and swimmers. For the fishermen in the bunch, Lake Taneycomo’s cold, clear waters offer some of the best trout fishing in the world and flows through Historic Downtown Branson. Bull Shoals Lake is renowned for its largemouth bass and offers visitors who are looking for a little less traffic an opportunity to boat, swim and ski.

Of course, Branson is has been in the live music entertainment business for 50 years and boasts over 50 theaters and nearly 100 shows. Don’t think that we just have country music either – there’s something for every taste, ranging from The Liverpool Legends (hand-picked by Louise Harrison, George Harrison’s sister) performing as The Beatles to The Chinese Acrobats to The Legends in Concert featuring some of the world’s greatest impersonators portraying such artists as The Blues Brothers, Neil Diamond, Buddy Holly, Elvis and many others. For country music fans, Branson still has plenty of shows to choose from including Jim Stafford and The Oak Ridge Boys.

In addition to all the shows and the natural Ozark beauty, there’s a host of other things to do in Branson including Silver Dollar City, an 1880’s themed amusement park, White Water, Branson’s outdoor water park, the Titanic Museum, Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum and The Butterfly Palace. Located downtown on Lake Taneycomo, The Branson Landing, our newest $300 million addition, offers over 100 shopping choices, 10 restaurants and live entertainment. With so much to do, it’s easy to see why over 8 million visitors flock to Branson yearly.

All of these tourists need a place to stay and many of these visitors want more than a motel room for their vacation. They want the conveniences of home. To achieve this comfort, an increasing number of visitors are renting vacation homes and condos. The advantages are numerous. They can stay under the same roof where everyone has their own room where they can hang out, read or watch TV without being on top of each other. Fully-stocked kitchens eliminate the expense of eating every meal in a restaurant. Leftovers can be brought back to the home further reducing food costs. Pet friendly vacation condos and homes allow those that want to travel with their four-legged companions a place to stay. Additionally, many properties offer great amenities for guests to use such as swimming pools, hot tubs, tennis and golf. These are just a few reasons why many tourists coming to the Branson area opt to stay in a vacation rental home or condo over a hotel.

Now more than ever, Branson is a great place to vacation AND invest. Sunset Realty and Sunset Nightly Rentals specialize in vacation property sales and vacation rental management around the Branson and Tri-Lakes area. We are committed to finding the right property and achieving the best possible return for your investment. Unlike other real estate companies, Sunset has first hand knowledge and experience in the vacation rental industry. It’s a great way to enjoy a vacation property and rent it when not in use, helping offset your mortgage. If you would like more information on vacation rental investments,call us at 866-804-8361. To view our vacation rental properties and schedule your next trip to Branson, call us at 877-784-4614.