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Joe Manausa, MBA

When I discuss the techniques used in selling a home with new home sellers, most are curious about my opinion on open houses. For those readers who missed my past article on real estate open houses, I addressed conversation rates and REALTOR® motivation for conducting them. But what about the relevance of holding an open [...]

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From time to time, we like to take a close look at home sales in Piney-Z in Tallahassee. Today, we’ll take exert some extra effort in the pursuit of quantifying the amount of depreciation that has occurred in Piney-Z, as well as studying the average sales price of homes that have recently sold there. Of [...]

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The 2010 Census is in the mail, and your Country needs you to take part. It only takes a few minutes for you to fill out the Census data and return it in the mail, so please do your part! Tell us how many people in your home are part of the Tallahassee population.
So why [...]

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In case you weren’t keeping an eye on the Market Reports page of the Tallahassee Real Estate Web Site, the new Tallahassee Home Inventory Report has been posted. This is a section of the web site dedicated to reporting “the numbers” as they occur. You might want to check out many of the daily reports that get posted there.

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The most obvious way to predict future home sales would be to take a look at the list of homes that are under contract and waiting for closing. These are what we refer to as “Pending Home Sales” and we can track them on a daily basis in the Tallahassee MLS. The real estate graph below shows that the number of pending home sales is climbing up from the bottom found in mid July. It is exciting to see this growth after years of steady declines.

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If you have to sell a home, I have an important tip that is crucial for you to understand. The internet has created many changes and opportunities in the real estate market, and home sellers who do not understand the evolution in pricing strategy will find that they are chasing away homebuyers. One big questions that home sellers always want to ask is how much “negotiating room” should they include in their asking price for a home. I’m sure Google has seen the following more than once!

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Tallahassee Neighborhoods are enjoying the beginning of the market turn, with homes selling at a faster rate today than they were a year ago. The most active neighborhood in Tallahassee is Killearn Lakes, followed by Southwood, Killearn Estates and Killearn Acres.
The following real estate graph shows the top 3 Tallahassee neighborhoods represent a very large [...]

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Summerbrooke home sales are “fighting the fight” that we are seeing in most Tallahassee neighborhoods. Home prices are still dropping in Summerbrooke, but monthly sales are on the rise, which is a major step in moving the market towards a balance between supply and demand.

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I was contacted by a reader yesterday wanting to know if a property that we have listed for sale was also available for lease. She proceeded to inform me that she had called on the “Craigslist ad” that “we” ran and immediately thought about “real estate scams”, so she was contacting me directly. After checking on the property she was calling about, it turns out it was only for sale. The ad that she found on Craigslist really was a scam. In order to warn my readers

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Recently, a reader found the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog when he was seeking the answer to the question “How to buy a house based on Tax Value.” While this question could have been seeking a different direction, I believe this reader was trying to determine how to figure out the value of a home based [...]

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