tuscaloosa county: Tuscaloosa (West Alabama) February Housing Stats
- 03/17/09 11:48 AM
Tuscaloosa Real Estate MLS February 2009 Real Estate Statistics # of Homes Sold: 83 New Const Sold: 24% (20 Homes) Condos Sold: .01% (1 Units) Condos Active: 14% (253 Units)Ave Days on Market: 152 Avg Selling Price: $184,344 Median Selling Price: $145000# of Homes on Market: 1803 New Const. Active: 19.6% (354 Homes) For up to date date for the Tuscaloosa Real Estate Market visit www.chriswlee.com
Total Sales: The increase in Tuscaloosa sales by 8% from the prior month(Jan) is consistent with historic and seasonal sales trends between the two periods. In comparison, the 5-year average(04-08) increase in sales from Jan to Feb is 17%.
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tuscaloosa county: Tuscaloosa Alabama Ranked 4th in home price increases
- 02/27/09 09:45 AM
While average home prices in the US fell 8.2%, Tuscaloosa had a rise in prices of 4.84%. Robert Brooks, an economics and finance professor at the University of Alabama, contributed the housing market to the areas diversity of industry and fiscally well-run local government. "Look at the financial management of Tuscaloosa County compared with Jefferson County up the road. It is quite a contrast," he said. Jefferson County is on the verge of filing the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history because of its inability to pay bondholders who financed the county's multibillion-dollar sewer system update. The Birmingham-Hoover metro area, which (1 comments)
tuscaloosa county: Tuscaloosa County School System Honored Nationwide
- 08/08/07 05:15 PM
The U.S. Department of Education decided that only eight public school systems nationwide were examples of successful efforts to improve their schools. The Tuscaloosa County School system was one of them.The school system will be featured in an upcoming publication put out by the Department of Education-funded National Center on Innovation and Improvement. Two Schools in Alabama were featured the other one was Escambia County Schools. The name of the publication is "Handbook on Statewide Systems of Support" and is part of the 2001 No child left behind act. Here is link about it from our cities paper. http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20070808/NEWS/708080333/1007 (0 comments)