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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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The Housing Tax Credit is set to expire on April 30th, 2010. Perhaps the most often asked question at the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog is “do you think the tax credit is going to be extended again.” Since this question is based upon politics, it’s not really something we can determine with “charts, graphs and [...]

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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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It does not take more than a minute (if you do a search on Google™) to find a blog or article written by a REALTOR® which extols the virtues of buying a home. And there is a better than even chance that “Now is the Time To Buy” will be included in the first paragraph [...]

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Every so often, I like to delve into my web site analytics package to see how many people have been visiting our Real Estate Blog and from where these people are coming. While the top origination points are not so surprising, I am always amazed that many of our visitors come from all over the [...]

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In case you did not hear the good news, the American Recovery And Reinvestment Act of 2009 (which President Obama signed into law last week) included significant improvements to the temporary First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit. While many might view this as a great benefit aimed only at the first-time homebuyer, the reality is that it [...]

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For those who have been watching, the Obama Stimulus Plan seems to be moving forward for him to sign it into law now. While I am no expert on the subject, it appears to contain roughly 286 billion dollars in tax cuts and 54 billion dollars for cash-strapped states, the package contains 311billion dollars in [...]

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