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Even though I’m on the road in San Antonio, I still keep an eye on the inventory trends in the Tallahassee real estate market. One trend lately has been disturbing and that is the 30-day trend. The graph below shows that inventories (the number of homes for sale in Tallahassee) has been growing for 35 [...]

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The continuation of the three-year-old bear market in real estate has brought many people forward to comment on the condition of the real estate market. It seems for everybody with an opinion, there are an equal number of theories about where the housing market is going. So, not to be left out of the crowd……. [...]

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There are so many distractions that can lure us away from our study of the real estate market and finding the direction of the market. With inaccurate reporting, hype, and media blitzing, it is a wonder anyone really knows what’s going on at all.
But don’t worry, it really isn’t that hard to tell where the [...]

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If you are curious about what is happening and what is going to happen to home values in the Tallahassee real estate market, I suggest you start your study with a close look at the inventory of homes for sale in Tallahassee (and its surrounding counties). A study of home inventories (and more importantly the [...]

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The entire financial world appears to be a scary place right now. Many people are starting to “smell opportunity” and yet are a bit too fearful to act on their instincts. The reason that I mention this is to get you to consider doing some homework and creating a decision matrix so that you can [...]

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As I have often written in the past, the inventory of homes for sale will be the first clue as to where the market is heading. For this reason, we track a myriad of trends in the Tallahassee housing market, but keep a keen eye on the short-term trends in home inventories. The Tallahassee Real [...]

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We have been watching inventories continue to rise in the residential real estate market for a very long time,  going back to 2005. The Tallahassee Real Estate Blog has been instructing readers that the first sign of change in the housing market should be noted when inventory levels begin to fall on a long-term trend. [...]

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They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and if that is the case, today’s blog is going to be about 1,200 words. I have produced a graph that shows the number of Tallahassee home sales each year, sorted by type and style, that clearly demonstrates the market correction in which we are [...]

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Finding The Market Turn

August 9, 2008

I’m using this weekend to catch up on a lot of the market data that we have been collecting. As the summer selling season winds to an end and the fall season begins, I wonder how the inventory in the Tallahassee real estate market is going to be affected. If I am to believe that [...]

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Finally, the May figures are in for the Tallahassee real estate market. Unfortunately, sales of homes in Tallahassee were down 34.5% in May of 2008 versus May of last year. But some good news does seem to be on the way. If you regularly check our continuously updated information on Tallahassee real estate, you [...]

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