Piney-Z Records 18% Real Estate Depreciation

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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Piney-Z Records 18% Real Estate Depreciation

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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2010 Census Arrives In Tallahassee Mailboxes

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.
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Home Inventory Levels Rising

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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Pending Home Sales Continue To Improve

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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How To Invest In Real Estate Safely

March 4, 2010

I was talking with a friend of mine yesterday about how I believe we are coming into the most significant financial period of change that will occur during my lifetime. The opportunities that are here now and will continue as we work to rid the market of the glut of homes will be seen one [...]

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Real Estate Network Brings World To Tallahassee

March 3, 2010

The purpose of the relocation industry is to better facilitate the process of moving people from one community to another. When a local home buyer decides to buy a home, so much of the process of moving is not a big deal. But when a buyer from another community relocates to Tallahassee, many more concerns need to be addressed. A relocation expert will make that process go much smoother.

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Tallahassee Foreclosures – New Deal For Home Buyers

March 2, 2010

We have received so many inquiries via our new Tallahassee Foreclosures Web Site about purchasing Tallahassee foreclosures that I am feeling like a recorded message. Many buyers want the perceived deals that “foreclosures” imply, so I figured I would lay out some advice that really fits our current times.
With so many of our homes upside-down [...]

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How To Lower Your Property Taxes

March 1, 2010

If you have no desire to sell your home, you might be interested in finding out how to lower your property taxes. Anybody who has been following the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog for any period of time can tell you that property values in Tallahassee have fallen as much as 25% in some areas, but [...]

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CENTURY 21 Announces New Leader

February 26, 2010

There is a new leader at CENTURY 21. Richard W. “Rick” Davidson was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Century 21 Real Estate on February 19, 2010 after the resignation of Tom Kunz. Mr. Davidson takes the helm of the real estate industry leader after four of the worst years the housing market has [...]

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Distressed Property List Growing In Tallahassee MLS

February 25, 2010

The number of homes labeled as “Distressed Property” continues to grow in the Tallahassee real estate market. A quick search of the Tallahassee MLS for homes that are short sales, foreclosures, bank owned or relocation shows that 22% of the active listings for condos, townhouses, and single family homes are in this category!

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Wait Until Next Year If You Are A Homeseller?

February 24, 2010

“We are going to have to wait until next year to sell our house,” is perhaps the concern that I am hearing most from upside-down homeowners, or those who have lost much of the equity in their homes. Perhaps they hope to rent the house out to a tenant for the next year or so, and then put the home on the market when it will sell for the values found back in 2006.

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Do You Really Need A REALTOR®?

February 23, 2010

Do you really need A REALTOR®? If you have a home to sell, it sure seems like a good idea to figure out how to save as much money as possible since home values are not where they once were. If you could sell your home without a REALTOR®, wouldn’t you be adding a whole [...]

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Killearn Lakes Unit 2 Home Sale Report

February 22, 2010

I was recently looking into home values in Unit 2 of Killearn Lakes Plantation and figured that my results would make for an interesting blog post at the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog. Killearn Lakes is the most active subdivision in Northeast Tallahassee, so I knew that whatever I found would be an important representation of current activity in the Tallahassee housing market.

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Southwood Home Values Still Tumbling

February 19, 2010

Southwood is one of the most active neighborhoods in Tallahassee, thus we are often asked to provide updates on Southwood home sales and values. For those readers who have followed the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog for any period of time, this report will not be surprising.
Home values continue to fall in Southwood, though unit sales [...]

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