Neighborhood Realty Business Highlight: The Byrd House Café

Oxford local Annie Haymans has always had a passion for creating clean and nutritious recipes. What began as Annie sharing her creations with friends has blossomed into her very own storefront: The Byrd House Café!

The start of a new year often means property taxes are due for homeowners. But how do cities and counties determine your taxes? Property taxes are based on the tax assessed value of your property—not what you paid for it or what you could sell it for. Typically, the tax assessed value is lower (sometimes significantly) than the market value of your home. Let’s explore the difference.

Oxford is host to some wonderful non-profit organizations that provide for our community in so many ways. We want to provide a glimpse of these organizations each month. Annually, every Continuum of Care in the nation performs a Point-in-Time (PIT) Count of all people experiencing homelessness in a shelter and on the street in the last 10 days of January. The PIT count offers the ability to monitor trends in homelessness across a geography, support local efforts in ending homelessness by identifying unmet needs and characteristics of persons experiencing homelessness, and identify areas where the development of housing and supportive service programs is needed.

Homestead Exemption gives home owners a tax break in the state of Mississippi. You can only file homestead on one property, your main residence, and you must file January 2-April 1 in the Lafayette county Chancery building (the Assessor/Tax Collector’s Office).

Happy New Year!! We look forward to serving you in 2025 and cannot thank you enough for helping to make 2024 such a wonderful year. Cheers to 2025!

Tis the Season to be Joyful! We hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday Season!

Every season creates specific concerns when it comes to home maintenance. Thanks to this Southern Living article, let’s discuss the winter season and what you should do to prepare your home for the cold temperatures.

With colder temperatures here and Christmas around the corner, we look to this realtor.com article about the three mishaps that COULD happen and how to avoid them from happening!

We are in the midst of the Holiday Season in Oxford. For many this holiday season, joy is giving gifts to others less fortunate. Oxford has a host of organizations and non-profits that help to provide a happy Christmas/Holiday to local families in need throughout our community.

From Holly Jolly Holidays to Visits with Santa to Ole Miss Holiday concerts to YAC's Annual Ornament Auction, you are sure to find plenty to do in Oxford during the Holiday season! Neighborhood Realty is happy to provide a list of what's going on this Holiday Season in the Oxford area.

Let’s give a huge WELCOME to Neighborhood Realty’s newest agent, Wayne Irby!

Real estate investors know the term 1031 exchange very well, but those new to purchasing real estate investment properties often have questions. Check out this realtor.com article that breaks down exactly what a 1031 exchange is and how it’s helpful for investors.

The 5th annual Holly Jolly Holidays is making its return to Oxford this winter, capturing the spirit of the season with festive experiences that include visits with Santa, ice skating and a newly launched Walk of Lights. mTrade Park will be the new venue! To kick off the festivities, Visit Oxford is bringing the updated ice-skating rink back for an extended time from November 23, 2024, through January 5, 2025.

Oxford is host to some really good Mexican food restaurants. El Charro is the largest one in town and offers an unbelievable setting and always fantastic food. We also love that their owner, Ramiro Munoz, Jr. was just celebrated as one of Oxford’s Top 20 under 40. Munoz’s father opened the first El Charro in Oxford almost 30 years ago and his son is carrying on the tradition. We love that we get to highlight El Charro Oxford this month!

What a perfect time to freshen up your home décor this Fall! Debuting a few eye-catching looks this time of year makes perfect sense. The holidays will be upon us in no time, bringing with them all kinds of opportunities to celebrate with family and friends to ‘show-off’ your new home décor. Check out these 5 “Storybook” Fall trends from Instagram.

Oxford is host to some wonderful non-profit organizations that provide for our community in so many ways. We want to provide a glimpse of these organizations each month. In 2010, while reading the Oxford Eagle, Sherry Williams-Jenkins saw an announcement for a community discussion on homelessness in the Oxford and Lafayette county area. By 2011, Sherry and others had created a vision and mission that became the Doors of Hope Transition Ministries, a 501C3 organization. Their popular Holiday House Tour, returns on Saturday, December 7th and we cannot wait! It’s one of our favorite events in Oxford!

National Gratitude Month is November. Research states that people who practice gratitude every day are not only happier but also healthier. So if you were looking for reasons to be thankful during this Thanksgiving season, then these benefits should be just the motivation you need.

Oxford and Lafayette county neighborhoods are looking pretty spooky! We are proud to announce our 4th Annual Halloween Decorating Contest WINNERS! 1st place goes to 328 Ridgewood Manor Drive in the Ridgewood Manor Estates neighborhood!

Real Estate agents usually get paid when a deal fully goes through and makes it to the closing table, rather than getting paid hourly or weekly. So, how much do you pay your Realtor and are these fees negotiable? Let’s take a look at this realtor.com article to help answer these questions.

What do you get when you have 3 friends, a love of antiques and an eye for all things beautiful? Blue Willow! We are so happy to highlight this South Lamar gift and antique shop this month.