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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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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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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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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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The number of homes labeled as “Distressed Property” continues to grow in the Tallahassee real estate market. A quick search of the Tallahassee MLS for homes that are short sales, foreclosures, bank owned or relocation shows that 22% of the active listings for condos, townhouses, and single family homes are in this category!
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Every month around this time, I am itching to discover the changes in supply and demand in the Tallahassee MLS so that I can anticipate market price movements. What I am hoping to find is an increase in home sales versus the same month in the prior year, and an overall reduction in the inventory [...]
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Housing Reports Without The Bias
February 16, 2010
Every month, we see new housing reports that are issued first by the National Association of REALTORS®, then by the Florida Association of REALTORS®, and finally by any local REALTORS® who actually pay attention to market reporting.
The one thing all of these seem to have in common is a consistent “spin.” Somebody at the National [...]
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