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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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How often do we see reports about the housing market that seem to show that things are improving, only to find another report that seems to completely contradict the first? And how about when two reports “hit the headlines” at the same time, and seem to be covering the exact same issue, yet conclude with [...]

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Tallahassee has a lot of subdivisions for the number of homes in town. In 2009, there were home sales recorded in 806 of these Tallahassee neighborhoods (legally called Subdivisions). I decided to take a fairly quick look to see which neighborhoods were selling the most properties.
I went to the tax records for all of Leon [...]

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The market goes up, and the market goes down, but what do people moving to Tallahassee want to know? They want to know about houses in Tallahassee. They want to know about schools and they want to know about Tallahassee neighborhoods. They want to know about recreation and they want to know about shopping. But [...]

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Recently a reader of the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog, going by the name of “Nancy,” asked why we did not have a neighborhood report on our site for Pine Tip Hills in Tallahassee. Since I couldn’t come up with a good answer, today we’ll take a quick look at home sales in Pine Tip Hills.

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One reader provided an interesting observation about our graphing [...]

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Do you ever wonder how much lending practices really affected the Tallahassee housing market? We read so many stories about “predatory lending” and abused government loan programs, that I got a little curious and decided to check out the history of mortgage loans in Tallahassee.
I decided to limit my sales information to “arms length home [...]

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Yesterday, I received an insightful question regarding the shadow inventory of homes in Tallahassee from a reader “Garrett” who asked:

I’d like to hear your thoughts as to whether there is a substantial “shadow inventory” of homes in Tallahassee at the moment? By shadow inventory I mean housing units that are not making it [...]

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The newest data has just arrived for home sales in Tallahassee, so I figured now was a good time to update the Tallahassee Subdivision Report. While I do this report every month, this will be the first time that I separate the “arms length” sales from the non arms length sales.
Just as a reminder for [...]

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When we look at existing home sales in Pebble Creek in Tallahassee, we see similar results as other Tallahassee neighborhoods. Unit sales of homes in Pebble Creek have dropped, though not as severely as many other neighborhoods until this year. No arms-length sale has occurred in Pebble Creek this year (through June), so pricing is a bit tougher to anticipate.

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