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 [...]
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 [...]
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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The time has come again to look at Tallahassee neighborhoods to see what is happening. We like to do this every month or so in order to identify the hottest selling subdivisions in Tallahassee, as well as see if any trends are occurring.
We compiled all of the existing home sales in Tallahassee (meaning no new [...]
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 [...]
Please don’t shoot the messenger! We’ve all heard this euphamism used when somebody reacts to bad news by blaming the reporting person or agency, which is exactly what happened in yesterday’s Tallahassee Real Estate Blog about Piney-Z home sales.
I wrote an article with updated facts about the Piney-Z neighborhood in Tallahassee. The reader was obviously [...]
There has been some debate lately in the Tallahassee real estate market regarding how one would measure appreciation rates of homes in a given real estate market. Some people like to think that you compare the median home price in our market today with the median home price from a year ago, and that will [...]