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What have we learned in 20 days?
Craig Ferguson used to have a little song at the end of his late night show, "What did we learn on the show tonight, Craig?"  

I couldn't help but think of Craig Ferguson's wacky late night show, as I did some research to see if the first part of January tells us anything about the Cape Girardeau area real estate market so early in 2015.
Properties are selling between 95 and 100 percent of their listed price! In fact, the average ratio is 96.17 percent. That holds true of all classifications except vacant land and farms (which, along with commercial/industrial also skews the total days on market).
Three, four, and five bedroom properties are bringing the highest list to sold price ratio of the categories. Yes, this is a limited cross-section of the market, as we are only 20 days into the year; but consumers hoping to get under contract would be wise to pay attention. The days of lowball offers are pretty much behind us, as the local market transitions from a buyers' market to a sellers' market--or at least to a "normal market," as described by Karen Fiddler in her recent AR blog.
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