guadalupe county: Hotcakes are selling like homes in San Antonio, Texas
- 05/20/13 11:17 PM
The average price of a home in the San Antonio metro went up again in April by 5%. This is according to the monthly statistics from the Multiple Listing Service report published by the San Antonio Board of REALTORS® (SABOR). Sales were up a whopping 21% from 2012, with a total of 1,998 sales and 2,149 pending closing.
The San Antonio metro includes Bexar County and seven surrounding counties. The cities with the greatest increase in homes sales activity from a year ago were Bulverde, Spring Branch, Boerne, Schertz, Converse, and Cibolo; located in Kendall, Comal, and Guadalupe Counties. Many … (1 comments)
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guadalupe county: Amazon will kindle more growth in Schertz, Texas
- 11/14/12 11:48 PM
I love Amazon. Not only do I get things delivered to my front door, and have the chance to read reviews of something I'm considering buying, but I can track my purchases.
Earlier this year I bought a water fountain for my cats, since they were getting bored with drinking water out of a plain old bowl or toilet. The electrical adapter fell apart the other day. I contacted the manufacturer to get a new one, and they asked me when I had purchased it. All I had to do was check my Amazon order history and give them the date, … (4 comments)
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guadalupe county: August in San Antonio - hot!
- 10/06/12 12:08 AM
According to the San Antonio Board of Realtors, August was a sizzling month for home sales, with a nearly 17% rise and 2,070 in number of sales. This echoes June’s record 4-year high of 2,018 homes sold.
The average sales price in the San Antonio metro went up to $200,760. Last year in August it was $188,485. The median price went to $159,100 from $153,200.
The average time on the market was 6.5 months. This indicates it's still a buyer's market, but if this pace keeps up, it will be balanced between buyers and sellers very soon.
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guadalupe county: Anole on a plumeria in Cibolo
- 08/30/12 10:29 PM
When I bent down to sniff the scent of this plumeria blossom, I spotted this creature taking in the morning sunshine. She is a green anole, and she has lots of company in our garden in Cibolo. We don't use pesticides in our yard, other than mosquito donuts, so there are lots of insects for her to catch. Lots of green anoles are a sign of a healthy outdoor environment.
(Try saying this post title out loud! It just rolls off your tongue, doesn't it?)
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guadalupe county: For sale: Meticulously maintained custom home at 2107 Persimmon Drive, Cibolo, Texas 78108
- 03/09/12 11:55 PM
Now is your chance to buy a home in the quiet neighborhood of Royal Oaks Acres in Cibolo.
Never heard of it? It is tucked away on the border with the city of Schertz and bounded by the neighborhoods of Greenshire, Braewood, and Deer Creek. Royal Oaks is almost one street long, with four cul-de-sac streets coming off either side of it. The custom-built homes are situated on large lots filled with stately oaks, redbuds, cedar elms, and mountain laurels.
Watch the Real Estate Show below or click here if it doesn't show up in your browser. Click on the Details … (5 comments)
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guadalupe county: I wish I hadn't sold that house now
- 11/18/11 01:26 AM
Recently I sold a home for some wonderful clients who moved out of state to fulfill their dream of retiring to a golf course community where they could be closer to their friends. I met the buyer during the transaction and she seemed very nice.
But you know what is not nice? Her obnoxious dog. Four times in the last couple weeks since she moved in, he has dug under the fence and popped up on our deck, scaring the cats out of their wits and getting mud on the patio.
Yes, the dog lives behind me now, along with its … (11 comments)
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guadalupe county: San Antonio's economy: how is it doing?
- 09/20/11 02:39 AM
A good housing market is dependent on a good local economy. And the economy of San Antonio, Texas, seems to be doing well.
Out of 366 metropolitan areas, the San Antonio-New Braunfels metropolitan area had a gross metropolitan product of $82 billion in 2010. This metropolitan area includes eight counties, the most populated ones being Bexar, Guadalupe, and Comal Counties.
The figures were compiled and recently released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The GMP is similar to the Gross National Product, representing the total output of goods and services in a metropolitan area. Although the San Antonio-New Braunfels metro … (4 comments)
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guadalupe county: Waterfront homes northeast of San Antonio in the foothills of the Texas Hill Country
- 08/22/11 06:20 AM
Thinking of buying a waterfront home in the foothills of the Hill Country northeast area of San Antonio? Then you are not alone. Vacation and second homes are popular in Comal County, which includes picturesque New Braunfels and the Comal and Guadalupe Rivers, as well as the east portion of Canyon Lake. Sales prices have been about the same since last year. The median price for homes and condos on the water, whether lakefront or riverfront, is $320,000.
What the relentless Texas drought has affected, however, is the time on the market of waterfront properties. The median time from listing to sale … (4 comments)
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guadalupe county: A weed by any other name
- 07/23/11 02:12 PM
My husband planted some bobble-shaped seeds last spring, which came up to form a very attractive shrub. The leaves start out purple, like the stems, and then turn green. The flower starts out white with purple, pointed edges and turns slightly purple through the one day it lasts.
It's a Datura stramonium, also known as jimson weed, devil's trumpet, devil's weed, thorn apple, tolguacha, Jamestown weed, stinkweed, locoweed, datura, pricklyburr, devil's cucumber, hell's bells, or moonflower. The plant is hallucinogenic, but also poisonous, so I'm not tempted to try it. (I'll stick to margaritas.)
The datura may be considered a common … (7 comments)
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guadalupe county: Sold! Country living with city amenities at 115 Mesquite Circle, Cibolo, Texas 78108
- 06/26/11 02:04 AM
There is one downside to selling a home in your own neighborhood: your lovely neighbors end up moving away. In order to fulfill their dreams of living in Arizona again, where their hearts are, my neighbors needed to leave their house here in Cibolo.
The good news is that there some home buyers are very happy to be moving into this spacious, well-maintained custom home with a fabulous swimming pool. Homes in my neighborhood don't come on the market very often, and I would bet that agents and home buyers keep an eye on it. And it didn't take long to make dreams … (7 comments)
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guadalupe county: Oops, sorry I invaded your privacy! Ladybug porn
- 05/24/11 01:55 PM
Every year, my organic garden in Cibolo looks different. Not only do various plants survive, grow, die, or get planted, but there is an ever-changing parade of birds, animals, and insects.
This spring, we have not seen many ladybugs. This is a shame, because one of the antique roses and some of the other flowers are teeming with aphids. This year, we planted some fennel, which is doing well (for once), but ladybugs don't seem to like it as much as they do dill. However, the other evening I spotted a couple of ladybugs apparently having an intimate encounter. I applaud their efforts, because … (16 comments)
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guadalupe county: Our new lawn mower - slow, but reliable
- 05/07/11 10:22 AM
As I walked around the garden the other evening, I saw that the bunny rabbit who has taken up residence there was out and about. I took several photos of him, and he came quite close to me in his quest for grass. Check out the long eyelashes and whiskers!
The bunny can eat as much grass and as many weeds as he wants. It will mean less mowing for me to have to do on the weekend.
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guadalupe county: A new tenant moves in
- 04/01/11 11:10 AM
I have seen this guy around the yard for a month now. He doesn't seem to be very afraid of me. He lives behind the compost heap in the corner of our yard, near the vegetable garden.
This morning I saw that he'd made himself a nest in some leaves and brush and was napping. Later in the afternoon, as I was pulling weeds, he came out and started looking for a late lunch. Cottontails are supposed to be active only at dawn and in the evening, but I guess he is pretty hungry. I brought him some dandelion leaves I … (10 comments)
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guadalupe county: Home sales falter in February
- 03/24/11 02:45 AM
It's not just my imagination. February seemed slower than the previous months, perhaps due to Spring Break. Nationwide, home sales dropped 9.6% in February after three months of gains in a row.
As Lawrence Yun, the economist for the NAR, puts it:
Housing affordability conditions have been at record levels and the economy has been improving, but home sales are being constrained by the twin problems of unnecessarily tight credit, and a measurable level of contract cancellations from some appraisals not supporting prices negotiated between buyers and sellers.
A high number of resales were for cash. Home buyers have been finding it … (3 comments)
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guadalupe county: Good news and bad news for home sellers in San Antonio, Texas
- 11/17/10 02:37 AM
Good news for home sellers in the greater San Antonio area. According to the Texas Association of Realtors, the average home prices in the San Antonio metro went up by 8.48% during the July-September quarter. At $195,817, this is a significant increase from $180,498 one year ago. The median price of a home in the third quarter 2010 rose to $156,600.
Here's the not-so-good news: there was a big decrease in the number of homes that have sold. From 5,457 this time last year to 4,585, this works out to almost a 16% drop. Time on market lengthened to 8.4 months, … (7 comments)
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guadalupe county: A warm office and a good view make it easier to report for duty
- 11/14/10 01:55 AM
Last week I finally did something I should have done a couple of years ago: I replaced the single-paned windows in my home office with double-paned ones.
In the winter, my office is easily the coldest room in the house, since it was originally a covered patio, later enclosed. The cold temperature in the morning makes my computer hard to start. I'm not kidding. It took me hours of work, research, and frustration the last two winters trying to figure out why my hard drive wouldn't boot up properly. The problem would magically go away in the spring. Instead of replacing the computer, which was not even … (6 comments)
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guadalupe county: Morning dew highlights a sparkling web on a rosemary bush
- 11/08/10 01:57 AM
Because we are organic gardeners, we rely on predators instead of chemicals to keep voracious insects from gnawing our flowering plants and vegetables. Spiders fit the bill. Although the larger wolf spiders still tend to scare me, this web is the mark of a much smaller spider. In fact, I didn't even see the web's creator when I found it strung between two branches of one of our rosemary bushes. That's okay. I don't need to see the spider to know it's doing its job.
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guadalupe county: Dragonfly Friday! Another lovely beneficial insect in my garden
- 10/29/10 10:06 AM
What else can I tell you about dragonflies, my favorite insects? How about some basics?
- They belong to the order Odonata, which means "toothed ones."
- There are 2,874 species of dragonflies worldwide, of which only 316 inhabit the United States.
- The largest modern-day dragonfly is the Australian Giant Petaltail, with a wingspan of up to 6.3 inches.
The dragonfly above, perching perilously close to the spider web, is somewhat smaller than that! Someday when I go to Australia I'll look for his giant cousin.
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guadalupe county: Programs, Incentives and 91 Reasons To Buy In Texas
- 09/11/10 02:12 PM
Greg apparently likes to do research. So do I. But I haven't had enough time lately to do quite this much research!
Greg has done a thorough round-up of many of the programs available in Texas to help people buy homes. Not only that, but it helps people with homes listed for sale in Texas. Click the links below to check out what is available in your city or county.
The $8,000.00 Tax credit brought truckloads of buyers to the market. Many of our listings sold to buyers that qualified for this incentive, but now that the tax credit has finally … (2 comments)
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guadalupe county: Hummingbird flight studies from my garden in Cibolo, Texas
- 09/05/10 06:16 AM
These photographs of hummingbirds silhouetted against an evening sky were taken when a thunderstorm had just finished rumbling away. There were three of them, doing their aerial acrobatics and trying to prevent each other from getting to the feeder. Hummingbirds don't flap their wings like other birds--they move them in a figure-eight formation. This is why they are the only birds capable of flying backwards.
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