In Wednesday's New York Times, the business section featured an article about real estate auctions and the prices that were being offered for properties in major cities throughout the country. 

I focused   specifically on Miami, since our auction company is based in Miami.  A graph at the bottom of the page depicted income to value ratios of 6 major cities, including Miami.  Miami ranked the third worst city when determining affordability of housing.

The point being that Miami and much of Florida still has a way to go in the form of further price reductions to be in line with much of the rest of the U.S in housing affordability.   This will play a major factor in helping us to return to a normal sales cycle.  This in large is determined by the amount of available housing on the market.

At the moment Miami Dade has close to a three year supply of housing on the market.  A healthy supply of available housing is considered to be 6-9 months by many industry experts.  Obviously we have a very long way to go to achieve these ratios.  I continue to promote the auction method as a key sales alternative to move inventory and accelerate the sales cycle so we can achieve a healthy housing market once again. 

As most of already know, Florida is heavily dependent on housing and tourism as key indicators of our economy.  I do not think many of need to be convinced that consumers will not be able to or have the desire to re enter the market or spend until our confidence in the housing market returns.  Let's get to work and promote auctions to help us move towards stabilizing this crisis.

As a strong partner with Realtors, we provide a 3% payout to co broker any sale and make it very affordable for the seller to auction.   For more information, please call Troy Fowler at Auction Generation.  He can be reached at 305-206-0349 or visit the company web site at www.auction-generation.com  to learn more.