Update for the Lakeland real estate market! Currently, there are 1943 homes for sale throughout Lakeland – as of 11/19/09. Newly listed homes for the period of November 1st through November 15th totaled 153 Lakeland homes recently came on the market. A decline from the previous my previous report. Average sales price of $176,647 or $89.01 per square foot with area Realtors®.
The types of homes and average prices just listed in Lakeland, Florida according to the Multiple Listing Services (MLS) are as follows:
3 duplex listed with an average sales price of $93,276
6 condos listed with an average sales price of $152,183
7 mobile homes listed with an average sales price of $72,614
6 Townhomes/Villas listed with an average sales price of $92,866
130 single family homes with an average price of $191,121
Lakeland’s newest homes listed! Thepriciest Lakeland real estate is a 1996 pool home is located on Scott Lake; featuring 5 bedrooms and 4 ½ baths with over 6,100 square feet of living space currently offered for $2,995,000. On the contrary, the cheapest Lakeland home newly listed is a 2 bedroom 2 baths listed for only $30,000 – just over $26.00 per square foot – located in the Rolling Glen subdivision.
I hope you found this post useful! If you need help finding or selling your Lakeland, Florida home, please contact Petra Norris - REALTOR at 863-619-6918. If you’re new to Lakeland, I’d especially like to extend a warm welcome. I value my clients and provide them with honest, reliable service. Allow me to introduce you to the Lakeland real estate landscape and all it has to offer.
Lakeland Florida Harrison School for the Arts – Fall Orchestra Concert
The Harrison Orchestra Students under the direction of Robert Lambert & Matt Daviswill be performing repertoire from some of your favorite composers at theirannual Fall Orchestra Concert on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. on the main state of the Harrison School for the Arts Theater located at 750 Lakeland Hollingsworth Drive, Lakeland Florida 33801
Come enjoy an evening of orchestral music at theFall Orchestra Concert. This concert provides an opportunity for you to hear the pieces that will be performed on orchestra’s trip to La Croix Valmer, France in June 2011.
Crown Imperial - William Walton (20th century British composer)
An American in Paris - George Gershwin
Selections from Camelot - Lerner & Loewe/ arr. Robert Russell Bennett
Brook Green Suite - Gustav Holst, and much more….
Ticket price for the performance is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and students. Tickets are available for purchase online at www.harrisonarts.comand will include a nominal merchant fee. Remember to bring your e-ticket to the event. Tickets are available at the door one hour prior to performance.
The Harrison Box Office will be open at 6:00 p.m. the evening of the performances. (863) 499-2939.
Mark your calendar for these upcoming performances of The Harrison Fine Arts Series for 2009/10:
Parallel Realities, Visual Arts Exhibit - Friday, October 23, 2009 - Friday, December 18, 2009
Jazz Band Concert - Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Music of the Season - Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Visual Arts Senior Showcase - Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - Sunday, February 28, 2010Reception, January 22 at 6:00 PM @Polk Museum of Art
Eighth Grade Small Works Invitational 2010, Visual Arts Exhibit
Friday, January 29, 2010 - Friday, February 12, 2010 - Reception at 5:00 PM
Winter Dance Concert - Friday, January 29, 2010 - Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Sit and Spin, Visual Arts Exhibit - Thursday, February 18, 2010 - Friday, March 19, 2010
Reception at 6:00 PM
The Three Musketeers
Friday, March 05, 2010 - Saturday, March 06, 2010
at 7:30 PM in the Black Box Theatre
Sunday, March 7, at 2:00 PM
The Three Musketeers
Friday, March 12, 2010 - Saturday, March 13, 2010
at 7:30 PM in the Black Box Theatre
Sunday, March 14, at 2:00 PM
Harrison Wind Ensemble Concert - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Chamber Music Concert - Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Piano Concert - Thursday, April 08, 2010 at 7:30 PM
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Friday, April 23, 2010 - Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, April 25, at 2:00 PM
Idealistic Notions, Professional Visual Arts Exhibit
Friday, April 23, 2010 - Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - Reception at 6:00 PM
String Orchestra Concert - Monday, April 26, 2010 First United Methodist Church, Lakeland at 7:30 PM
Spring Dance Concert - Friday, May 07, 2010 - Saturday, May 08, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Symphony Orchestra Concert - Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Spring Choral Concert - Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Jazz Band Concert - Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 7:30 PM
I hope you found this post useful! If you need help finding or selling your Lakeland, Florida home, please contact Petra Norris - REALTOR at 863-619-6918. If you’re new to Lakeland, I’d especially like to extend a warm welcome. I value my clients and provide them with honest, reliable service. Allow me to introduce you to the Lakeland real estate landscape and all it has to offer.
We have heard experts on the housing market predictions, we Real Estate professionals also know that Real Estate is local.
We do our best answering questions about the Real Estate Market. This is your chance to voice your opinion - What is your prediction? When do you think the housing market will recover?
I invite you to go to the original author and voice your opinion.
Housing will not fully recover until 2012. That is when the glut of backlogged foreclosures is expected to be phased out of the market.
Housing will recover by the end of the year. Now that inventory has contracted to average levels for what constitutes “normal” regional markets in major metropolitan areas where prices have declined as much as 50% in the past three years, and month to month sales have steadily increased over the past six months, demand has realigned with supply to arrest the freefall in values.
The housing recovery began in early 2009. Median price increases in some markets indicate that even while many pundits were openly wondering when the bottom of the market would appear, it was actually several months in the rearview mirror.
Many factors and variables, and just as many divergent opinions to boot. So many, in fact, that you almost have to choose amongst the purported experts to determine whether you fall in the half empty or half full category. Job rates, interest rates, unemployment rates … psychiatric rates, for spending too much time poring over the data and extrapolations will render one in need of a head exam.
Overanalysis 101.
You don’t need flow charts to tell you where things stand at the moment. You won’t need a market report to tell you when things are better.
You’ll know the market has recovered when you no longer dread the trip to the mailbox or evening phone calls.
You’ll know the market has recovered when you can confidently re-enable automatic bill pay from your checking account instead of prioritizing which ones get paid this month by how far past due each is.
You’ll know that the market has recovered when you don’t have to decide whether you or a loved one is really ill enough to warrant the cost of a trip to the doctor.
You’ll know the market has recovered when you no longer have to explain to the kids why you can’t go to the zoo or stop for ice cream today.
You’ll know the market has recovered when sleep comes as readily as worry formerly did.
You can stop looking to someone else to tell you when the market is fully healed as the housing implosion is the root of these greater ails. It’s far easier to take stock of your own life, and those of your friends and family, to see where along its arc the pendulum is currently settled. As the finance/housing sector dragged our economy into the muck, it will again lead us back to dry ground. No need to watch the stars for celestial clues. Just do what no pundit can and watch your own life for improvement. You’ll know housing has recovered when both of your own feet are planted squarely on terra firma.
Most importantly, beware the forecasts that don’t jive with your own internal index. Those who would adamantly assert the rosiest or bleakest prognosis are likely more interested in influencing your behavior than in your well being.
“Buy now before prices shoot back up!”
“Sell now before prices erode further!”
When you stop listening to yourself, you risk placing all of your trust in the megaphones of those who have a vested interest in your fear.
Is the housing market improving? Is now the time to buy? The time to sell? For months, I have been asked to provide the answers to these questions. I have dutifully provided my vague predictions with the obligatory caveat that no one truly knows how a free market will behave from one day to the next. I realize, though, that in supplying answers to those who actually give the market context, that we have all been looking at this thing from the wrong perspective. It makes zero difference where I think the market stands at present, and where it is headed. The very consumers who ask me these questions are the ones who will ultimately provide the truth or fallacy to my various hypotheses. So I turn the tables and ask the consumer, the actual authority, the very same question.
“What is the state of the Real Estate market?”
Feel free to comment here or send me an email with your thoughts. Looking for opinions from consumers and laypersons, not agents or financial wizards (all comments welcome, though). I will post the results in a follow-up piece.
Mr. Homeowner & Mrs. Homebuyer, the floor is now yours.
I hope you found this post useful! If you need help finding or selling your Lakeland, Florida home, please contact Petra Norris - REALTOR at 863-619-6918. If you’re new to Lakeland, I’d especially like to extend a warm welcome. I value my clients and provide them with honest, reliable service. Allow me to introduce you to the Lakeland real estate landscape and all it has to offer.
Many home owners have received their property tax bill for 2009 in the mail. Unless you own your home free and clear, your bill generally will state:
This Is Not A Bill - Do Not Pay!
To many first time home owners and especially to many future first time home buyers wanting topurchase a Lakeland Real Estate, this is a new terminology to them. The bill also states that your bill has been forwarded to your Escrow Agent.
One of the things I love most about my job as a Lakeland real estate professional is that I get to educate my buyers about the real estate purchasing process. With a doubt, a term that is often not very well understood by new Lakeland home buyers is the term Escrow Account. So, I’ve written down a brief overview for you here.
An escrow account is a specially designated savings account into which funds are deposited for a defined purpose.
With respect to Lakeland real estate and mortgages, your escrow account is used to hold money in a neutral account prior to closing, and later to pay real estate tax bills and homeowners insurance payments.
Once your mortgage is in effect, escrow accounts are managed and disbursed by lenders or their designated servicing companies.
Lenders generally require, whether you opt for an FHA, VA guaranteed or a conventional mortgage, that you “escrow” your scheduled monthly home owners insurance (hazard insurance) as well as a set amount for your property taxes. The lender basically wants to be sure that you will be able to cover these bills when they come due. When the time does come for them to be paid, your lender cuts a check to each entity from your escrow account. You do not have to pay these bills directly.
I hope you found this post useful! If you need help finding or selling your Lakeland, Florida home, please contact Petra Norris - REALTOR at 863-619-6918. If you’re new to Lakeland, I’d especially like to extend a warm welcome. I value my clients and provide them with honest, reliable service. Allow me to introduce you to the Lakeland real estate landscape and all it has to offer.
I am not a U.S. citizen although have been married to a retired military vet for over 25 years now and shared with him the last ten or so years of his military service during the cold war. I've never felt such an outpouring of thankfulness amongst this nation until after Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Luckily my husband was never called upon to fight in front of enemy lines. His service started in 1975 and ended in 1995 in the maintenance field with a short deployment to Iraq.
My husband's dad Charles served in the Korean War in the Air Force. My brother-in-law Charles served in Vietnam, my other brother-in-law Allen served around the same time as my husband Jim. My son-in-law David is serving as a Marine reservist and already had a tour of duty in Iraq. My other son-in-law Andrew graduated from the Air Force Academy and is committed for a few years at least. To my friends who served along with my husband. I'm very thankful for their service.
In addition to my family, I want to personally thank those of you who faught for our freedom in front of enemy lines, families who lost their fathers, brothers, sisters, mothers aunts and uncles, the sacrafices you have done and continue to do so - My heartfelt thanks!
Have a blessed and safe Veterans Day! For those who serve and will be serving in front of enemy lines - stay safe!
Sincerely,
Petra Norris
I hope you found this post useful! If you need help finding or selling your Lakeland, Florida home, please contact Petra Norris - REALTOR at 863-619-6918. If you’re new to Lakeland, I’d especially like to extend a warm welcome. I value my clients and provide them with honest, reliable service. Allow me to introduce you to the Lakeland real estate landscape and all it has to offer.
Lakeland Florida Harrison School for the Arts – Fall Piano Concert
The Harrison Piano Students under the direction of Rebekah Haubrywill be performing solos and ensembles repertoire from some favorite composers, such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, and many more at their annual Fall Piano Concert on Thursday, November 12th, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. on the main state of the Harrison School for the Arts Theater located at 750 Lakeland Hollingsworth Drive, Lakeland Florida 33801
Come enjoy an evening of piano music at The Fall Piano Concert. This concert provides an opportunity for the students to demonstrate their accomplishments of their first semester’s study of solo and ensemble literature.
Freshmen
Michelle Castillo, Angie Lee, Forin Huang, Holly Scott
Sophomores
Richard Anderson, Derik Thomas, Alvaro Ulloa
Juniors
Amanda Callihan, Angel Lee, James Maffett, Sabrina Morby, Matthew Oliver
Seniors
Mary-Catherine Savant, Lorel Schmitzberger, Shelli Sokolski, Benjamin Vickers
Ticket price for the performance is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and students. Tickets are available for purchase online at www.harrisonarts.comand will include a nominal merchant fee. Remember to bring your e-ticket to the event. Tickets are available at the door one hour prior to performance.
The Harrison Box Office will be open at 6:00 p.m. the evening of the performances. (863) 499-2939.
Mark your calendar for these upcoming performances of The Harrison Fine Arts Series for 2009/10:
Parallel Realities, Visual Arts Exhibit - Friday, October 23, 2009 - Friday, December 18, 2009
Symphony Orchestra Concert - Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Jazz Band Concert - Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Music of the Season - Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Visual Arts Senior Showcase - Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - Sunday, February 28, 2010Reception, January 22 at 6:00 PM @Polk Museum of Art
Eighth Grade Small Works Invitational 2010, Visual Arts Exhibit
Friday, January 29, 2010 - Friday, February 12, 2010 - Reception at 5:00 PM
Winter Dance Concert - Friday, January 29, 2010 - Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Sit and Spin, Visual Arts Exhibit - Thursday, February 18, 2010 - Friday, March 19, 2010
Reception at 6:00 PM
The Three Musketeers
Friday, March 05, 2010 - Saturday, March 06, 2010
at 7:30 PM in the Black Box Theatre
Sunday, March 7, at 2:00 PM
The Three Musketeers
Friday, March 12, 2010 - Saturday, March 13, 2010
at 7:30 PM in the Black Box Theatre
Sunday, March 14, at 2:00 PM
Harrison Wind Ensemble Concert - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Chamber Music Concert - Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Piano Concert - Thursday, April 08, 2010 at 7:30 PM
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Friday, April 23, 2010 - Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, April 25, at 2:00 PM
Idealistic Notions, Professional Visual Arts Exhibit
Friday, April 23, 2010 - Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Reception at 6:00 PM
String Orchestra Concert - Monday, April 26, 2010 First United Methodist Church, Lakeland at 7:30 PM
Spring Dance Concert - Friday, May 07, 2010 - Saturday, May 08, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Symphony Orchestra Concert - Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Spring Choral Concert - Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Jazz Band Concert - Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 7:30 PM
I hope you found this post useful! If you need help finding or selling your Lakeland, Florida home, please contact Petra Norris - REALTOR at 863-619-6918. If you’re new to Lakeland, I’d especially like to extend a warm welcome. I value my clients and provide them with honest, reliable service. Allow me to introduce you to the Lakeland real estate landscape and all it has to offer.
Free Arts & Entertainment Event in Lakeland Florida - Saturday Nov 14th 2009
Did you enjoy this past weekend's free events honoring the people who service? Check out this Saturday's free art & music event on November 14, 2009 from 11am-5pm. This event takes place downtown Lakeland at the Lake Mirror Amphitheater.
This event would help bring unity to the community of Lakeland through a common passion; creative arts. It would be a place for talented artists within our community to release their gifts, bringing a positive influence into our city. Artists would have the opportunity to network & share with other artists of the same vein and hopefully it would provide profit for them by selling their pieces/music. To simply put it, they want to promote art.
There will be all sorts of live entertainment throughout the day, featuring: The Florida Dance Theatre, Southeastern's fX Percussion Group, Joe Gavin, John Conklin, Terra Terra Terra and more!
I hope you found this post useful! If you need help finding or selling your Lakeland, Florida home, please contact Petra Norris - REALTOR at 863-619-6918. If you’re new to Lakeland, I’d especially like to extend a warm welcome. I value my clients and provide them with honest, reliable service. Allow me to introduce you to the Lakeland real estate landscape and all it has to offer.
First Friday in Lakeland Florida – Local Event “Honoring Service” – November 6th, 2009
Being married to a veteran, who served 20 years in the Army and both of my sons (SIL) serving in the military, one as a Marine reservist and the other active duty in the Air Force, this is very dear to my heart. Veterans Day is November 11th andLakeland, Florida’s First Friday local event “Honoring Service” could not have been timed any better.
With all Lakeland First Friday events, Downtown Lakeland Partnership has always done an outstanding job organizing, which proved at last month event of “Art Walk”. I’ve never seen that many people downtown Lakeland comingling, shopping, dining and having a good time.
What can you expect to see in and around Munn Park?
Color guard demonstration by Lake Gibson High, Lake Region, and George Jenkins High Schools.
Dance and ROTC performances throughout the evening are scheduled – Kentucky Avenue will close from Lemon Street to Oak.
Music and Entertainment
Student art displays along the streets
At 7:00 p.m. between Main and Lemon Street, you’ll be entertained by clogging and nutcracker dances.
Girl Scouts are sponsoring card making activities to be sent to troops overseas.
Massages will be offered
Prizes to win, sign up for drawings and more.
Lifestyle Fitness Center will also have you entertained
There is so much more from Nonperishable Food Drive organized by Brooke Pottery to benefit the Talbot House to Operation Drop Zone donating items for our active military members deployed overseas. Think about our military veterans when you shop downtown Lakeland!
Also, Senator Paula Dockery, who just announced her run for governor will be there to talk with you.
Stop by at the classic car show!
I hope you found this post useful! If you need help finding or selling your Lakeland, Florida home, please contact Petra Norris - REALTOR at 863-619-6918. If you’re new to Lakeland, I’d especially like to extend a warm welcome. I value my clients and provide them with honest, reliable service. Allow me to introduce you to the Lakeland real estate landscape and all it has to offer.
The other day I received a direct message (DM) from a local follower, who I trust because they are dedicated to developing a community consensus on Lakeland’s future. The message read “I make money online with google. I learned how here…”link”I clicked on the (SPAM) link; clearly, I was not thinking straight this should have put up a big red flag in my brain…I even responded to the DM as follows, “I’m always skeptical when it comes to ad like this – does it really work –be honest and how did you go about it”. What was I thinking?
Today, I received a message from my follower saying that their Twitter account has been compromised and to please follow the direction with the link.I followed the instruction from a good friend Chuck Welch and followed “8 Steps if Your Twitter Account is Sending Spam” to the tee.
If you got caught up with a SPAM direct message from a trusted follower, please take extra caution to prevent spammers from hacking into your account.
I hope you found this post useful! If you need help finding or selling your Lakeland, Florida home, please contact Petra Norris - REALTOR at 863-619-6918. If you’re new to Lakeland, I’d especially like to extend a warm welcome. I value my clients and provide them with honest, reliable service. Allow me to introduce you to the Lakeland real estate landscape and all it has to offer.
Update for the Lakeland real estate market! Currently, there are 1940 homes for sale throughout Lakeland – as of 11/03/09, still balanced no major increase in inventory for the past few weeks. Newly listed homes for the period of October 16th through October 31st totaled 192 Lakeland homes recently came on the market. Average sales price of $177,940 or $85.32 per square foot with area Realtors®.
The types of homes and average prices just listed in Lakeland, Florida according to the Multiple Listing Services (MLS) are as follows:
2 duplex listed with an average sales price of $36,299
5 condos listed with an average sales price of $104,560
16 mobile homes listed with an average sales price of $96,212
11 Townhomes/Villas listed with an average sales price of $110,561
158 single family homes with an average price of $195,022
Three Lakeland homes exceeding $1 million were just listed. Thepriciest Lakeland real estate was a former “Home of the Year” in the 2006 Spring Parade. This custom built pool home is located in the Lazy Creek subdivision; featuring 5 bedrooms and 5 baths with close to 6,000 square feet of living space currently offered for $1,499,000. On the contrary, the cheapest Lakeland home newly listed is a 2 bedroom 1 bath listed for only $10,000 – just under $12.00 per square foot – located in the Palma Ceia Court subdivision.
I hope you found this post useful! If you need help finding or selling your Lakeland, Florida home, please contact Petra Norris - REALTOR at 863-619-6918. If you’re new to Lakeland, I’d especially like to extend a warm welcome. I value my clients and provide them with honest, reliable service. Allow me to introduce you to the Lakeland real estate landscape and all it has to offer.
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The Harrison Orchestra Students under the direction of Robert Lambert & Matt Davis
Many home owners have received their property tax bill for 2009 in the mail. Unless you own your home free and clear, your bill generally will state:
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