I was reading the news today on the falling home prices in the nation from the Case Schiller Index that reported all 20 cities in the report have dropped in price. It is one of the steepest historical drops in price. That may not seem like good news to most in real estate, but it is. We are no
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06/24/2008
I created a May 2008 comparison sales chart for Atlanta homes sales (Single Family Detached Homes). It is always easier to take a look at the bigger picture rather than a single snap shot in time. I compared May Atlanta home sales to previous May single family home closings and compiled in a ch
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06/23/2008
The following is a custom chart I created to share the most recent North Fulton Homes sales for May 2008 as compared to same period in previous 5 years. The Chart shows a definitive trend. The North Fulton east side of the 400 also known in our real estate MLS as area 14 peaked in home sales in
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06/23/2008
North Fulton Homes Sales May. The following is a custom chart I created to share the most recent North Fulton Homes sales for May 2008 as compared to same period in previous years. The Chart was very interesting to me, because I found a trend I had not been aware of before. The North Fulton we
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06/23/2008
Atlanta real estate market report was just issued by our FMLS on June 20, 2008 and the numbers are only confirming what many in Atlanta real estate market already knew. We are not in a good space in the Atlanta real estate market with home sales continuing to decline. There were 3,881 closing
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06/22/2008
The first day of summer has just passed, and in retrospect this is the first Atlanta real estate spring market that never materialized. There are many reasons for this, rising gas prices, less consumer confidence, and a credit crunch, but the reality is simple, there are more homes and less buye
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06/22/2008
I just did a CMA presentation this morning for a potential home seller in the Atlanta area. Nothing has sold in the subdivision since last October. Even a recent agents mailing into the subdivision, had "0" Recent Sales on the post card. Well one of the recent comps I was surprised had finally
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06/21/2008
Active Vs. Passive Marketing: Changing Real Estate Markets. Strategies to Succeed. A new article of mine has just been published in RealtyTimes.Com that reflects how to redefine the way you do business in our current real estate market. In the last few years anything worked! If we could fog u
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06/20/2008
Atlanta City Council approves water-sewer rate hikes in an online article in today'a Atlanta Business Atlanta Business Chronicle - by Dave Williams ...Atlanta's City Council approved a massive new water bill increase that I mentioned a few weeks ago in an Active Rain Blog. If you thought the
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06/19/2008
I just recieved my ActiveRain newsletter today that incuded a story about Redfin. I'd fogotten that I was interviewed last week by USA Today Online for a perspective on Redfin and how it stacks up to mainstreet real estate. The USA Today online article appeared today and there were even a few A
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06/19/2008
