The declining number of homes for sale in Tallahassee is causing an old question to resurface in Tallahassee, as buyers want to know my thoughts on whether to write a back up contract on a home. The question is being asked more and more due to the fact that our Tallahassee MLS IDX Feed (the [...]
A while ago, I announced the fact that Century 21 First Realty was no longer, that we have a new company, a new name, with new owners, and most importantly, we are a real estate brokerage in Tallahassee, committed to customer service. Now at first blush, this should sound very ho-hum for most people, in [...]
The world of golden jacketed real estate agents is all a buzz about the Century 21 Super Bowl Commercial that will be shown for 30 seconds nine days from now. Normally, I do not write much about my “brand,” as Century 21 does a whole lot of that themselves. For those of you “normal” people [...]
As somebody who tries to analyze, measure, and track every recorded aspect of the Tallahassee real estate market, I am often curious about the impact of the changes we are seeing in the real estate brokerage industry. With the help of the Tallahassee Board of REALTORS® Multiple Listing Service, today I want to take a [...]
Last night we celebrated. CENTURY 21 First Realty enjoyed it’s 2011 year-end holiday party at Andrews 228 in downtown Tallahassee with dinner, drinks, and memories of a wonderful year in a difficult housing market. One of the highlights of the evening involved a game we played called “Name The Agents” and the game board is [...]
When we study the homes for sale in Tallahassee and its surrounding communities, we find a trend that is often mentioned by Dr. Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist for the National Association of REALTORS®. Dr. Yun has been reported a rising trend in the number of real estate contracts that fail to close, and the Tallahassee [...]
My family has spent the last few days moving and of course we had great real estate service from our REALTOR in Tallahassee . After living in the same location for 8 years, the amount of “stuff” we had amassed blew me away. Apparently a family of 5 gathers more belongings than a traveling circus [...]
July 24, 2011 – Did you know that there are 492 different real estate companies in Tallahassee that are members of our local Board of REALTORS®? Considering that we will only record between 2,000 and 2,300 home sales in Leon County this year, that means the average realty company will only participate in about 9 [...]
One of the major problems that is slowing buyer activity in the housing market has been the tightening of mortgage lending standards. For the past six months, there has been a great difficulty in finding a lender willing to do condo financing in Tallahassee, but finally there are signs that this is starting to change [...]
