chastain park real estate: Chastain Park Homes for Sale - 02/08/11 01:22 PM
Searching for Chastain Park homes for sale can be a real challenge.  (Continued from earlier post)
One would think it should be easy.  Websites come up in the searches that clearly offer Chastain Park as a neighborhood you can search on.  Some even claim to specialize in Chastain Park as a neighborhood.  So, what is the problem?  Well, let's continue:
The third website Google produced yielded 34 actively listed homes for sale. Even if they are truly in Chastain Park, this search engine is only delivering 60% of what is available. The fourth website Google produced had a sentence on the … (0 comments)

chastain park real estate: Chastain Park Homes for Sale - 02/08/11 01:15 PM
Searching for Chastain Park homes for sale can be a real challenge.  One would think it should be easy.  Websites come up in the searches that clearly offer Chastain Park as a neighborhood you can search on.  Some even claim to specialize in Chastain Park as a neighborhood.  So, what is the problem?  Well, the problem is that agents input listings by subdivision and that particular search field is not controlled by a pick list.  It is up for interpretation because most older neighborhoods in Atlanta (inside the I-285 perimeter highway) are not well defined.  Neighborhood areas like Buckhead, Brookhaven, and … (0 comments)

chastain park real estate: How low can you go? - 11/19/08 08:15 AM
Ahh, the age old question... In Chastain Park, not much happens below $400k. In the last couple of years record low sales have been:
2006 - $350,000 2007 - $410,000 Thus far in 2008, the record low happens to be a foreclosure that sold for $345,000 with six offers the first day it hit the market.  That home has since been renovated and is now back on the market at $975,000.  The lowest "normal" sale has been $432,500.  This month a home came back on the market at $395,000 (76% of its asking price back in March) and it was snapped up … (0 comments)

chastain park real estate: Chastain Park Real Estate Micro-Market - 11/10/08 03:10 AM
Finally, there are some tools for the web savvy Seller or Buyer regarding Atlanta's Chastain Park neighborhood. 
The reality is that almost all websites show only about half of the homes listed in Chastain Park because automated search utilities simply can not isolate these homes because it is too complicated. Here's why:
Today's "Chastain Park" comprises a group of older neighborhood pockets surrounding the park.  Each of these neighborhoods has a name that the public would not necessarily associate with being in Chastain Park.  Agents often list homes using the original subdivision name making many unrecognizable to the search engines if someone is using Chastain … (0 comments)

 
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