tallahassee real estate: Local Growth Drives Real Estate - 11/09/09 09:08 AM
You always hear the expression that real estate is local, and there certainly is a whole lot of truth to that. Certainly, national interest rates and Obama stimulus money have an affect on a local market, but the reality is that local job growth and local population growth have a
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tallahassee real estate: Buyer Considers Lease Purchase As Creative Solution To Housing Problem - 09/29/09 06:55 AM
One of the more popular blog posts that our readers have enjoyed is called “What Sellers Should Know About Lease Purchase Agreements” and it was posted back in March of this year. The reason that I wrote the article about alternative home selling processes is that I suspected that market conditions
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tallahassee real estate: Do You Have Your Own Real Estate App? - 08/31/09 07:02 AM
After fighting tooth and nail to stay in the 20th Century, the real estate industry is finally starting to embrace technology. Gone are the days of hoarding and hiding information, and we are now embracing the 21st Century of real estate.
While many Tallahassee Real Estate Brokers are trying to
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tallahassee real estate: Real Estate Blog Offers Plenty In Benefits - 08/11/09 06:35 AM
eadership at the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog is growing, but we have found that a good number of our subscribers are reading our daily feed through an RSS reader or our feedburner email feed. This means that the daily content is being delivered to them directly, without them even having to
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tallahassee real estate: Tallahassee, FL: Royal Oaks Neighborhood Sees Strong Home Values - 07/10/09 08:35 AM
I have been conducting home appreciation studies on many Tallahassee neighborhoods, hoping to find some that are doing well despite the tough market that we are in. Most Tallahassee subdivisions have seen depreciation (from the peak of the market) in the 15 to 20% range, and reduced unit sales by greater
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tallahassee real estate: North Florida Counties See Growing Housing Supply - 07/10/09 08:30 AM
While the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog focuses on many things, the actual data and tracking that we do here primarily consists of the home sales in Leon County, Florida. Today however, we will take a look at the four counties nearest the Tallahassee real estate market as they co-exist in the
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tallahassee real estate: Zillow Says Homeowners Are Confident - 07/03/09 09:24 AM
I came across a survey of homeowners that I think is very enlightening for many reasons. This Zillow real estate survey (a real estate aggregator and internet portal) asks homeowners what they think of their home value and what its value will be in the future. They also ask what
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tallahassee real estate: Inventory Of Homes Still High In Tallahassee - 06/09/09 06:42 AM
The inventory of homes for sale in Tallahassee has been continually dropping for quite some time. Unfortunately, the rate at which people are buying homes in Tallahassee has been dropping too. As a matter of fact, the rate at which homes are selling is dropping faster than the supply, meaning that
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tallahassee real estate: Good News In Tallahassee Real Estate - 05/05/09 09:04 AM
Yesterday was a busy day, as we posted the 6th edition of the Tallahassee Real Estate Newsletter. You can subscribe to the newsletter (in the sidebar to the right) in order to have it delivered right to your email inbox when it is published.
I noticed after publishing the newsletter yesterday
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tallahassee real estate: Tallahassee MSA Economic Forecast - 04/22/09 08:54 AM
I received a timely and fact-filled email yesterday from Leon County Commissioner Bob Rackleff regarding “the collapse of Florida’s growth. Reading through the email, I found it was a summary of the latest Florida & Metro Forecast from the Institute for Economic Competitiveness at the University of Central Florida. Needless to
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tallahassee real estate: Using The MLS To Understand Housing Trends - 04/16/09 05:46 AM
The Tallahassee MLS contains a wealth of information that can yield a glimpse of the direction of the real estate market if you know where and how to look. With the help of Carol Palacios, the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog tracks key data over time in order to provide the
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tallahassee real estate: Tallahassee Housing Supply And Demand Analysis - 04/11/09 08:24 AM
Every month we update our Tallahassee MLS report which shows the supply and demand dynamics of the entire area tracked by the Tallahassee Board of Realtors Multiple Listing Service (MLS). The areas include Leon County, Jefferson County, Wakulla County, Gadsden County, Franklin County and a few other random sales from around
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tallahassee real estate: 2009 Home Sales At Record Lows In Tallahassee - 04/07/09 05:56 AM
For those of you who try to make a living in the real estate industry, you know last year was the worst year on record in the Tallahassee housing market. This next graph shows you we should have known how good we had it last year….
As you can see,
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tallahassee real estate: Prelude To A Tallahassee Real Estate Recovery - 03/25/09 05:59 AM
I was having a discussion about the state of the Tallahassee real estate market with a longtime friend yesterday. He had seen the Existing Home Sales report for both the U.S. as well as for the State of Florida.
The first thing that caught his eye was the national report,
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tallahassee real estate: REALTORS® Conducting More Of The Business In Tough Market - 03/23/09 01:35 PM
As the real estate market in Tallahassee and the rest of the country continues to struggle along, the use of REALTORS® is on the rise in home sales. As confidence in the overall market drops, confidence in the effectiveness of REALTORS® is rising.
The real estate graph below represents the measurement
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tallahassee real estate: Real Estate Inventory Trends Need To Be Monitored - 03/11/09 07:10 AM
Even though I’m on the road in San Antonio, I still keep an eye on the inventory trends in the Tallahassee real estate market. One trend lately has been disturbing and that is the 30-day trend. The graph below shows that inventories (the number of homes for sale in
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tallahassee real estate: 18 Windows Into The Tallahassee Real Estate Market - 02/17/09 05:32 AM
The month of January saw a continuation of the slower sales for homes in the Tallahassee real estate market. Unit sales were very low even for January, with sales plummeting 46% compared to last January and Tallahassee registering our 31st straight year-over-year drop (January 2009 vs. January 2008).
January is
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tallahassee real estate: Reader Calls Real Estate Blogger "Conservative" - 02/14/09 03:09 PM
I love it when we get feedback from readers, as they do a much better job of guiding this blog than I can do from my viewpoint at ground level of the Tallahassee real estate market. I often get insight that I would not have been able to generate among my
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tallahassee real estate: Tallahassee, FL: Year End Real Estate Reports With Color Graphs - 01/31/09 04:51 PM
The month of December saw a continuation of the slower sales for homes in the Tallahassee real estate market. Unit sales were very low for December, thus registering our 30th straight year-over-year drop (December 2008 vs. December 2007).
December is usually an average month because there are many buyers who
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tallahassee real estate: Real Estate Graphs Show What Words Cannot Express - 01/27/09 05:35 AM
The month of December saw a continuation of the slower sales for homes in the Tallahassee real estate market. Unit sales were very low for December, thus registering our 30th straight year-over-year drop (December 2008 vs. December 2007).
December is usually an average month because there are many buyers who
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