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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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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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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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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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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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“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®? 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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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 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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