“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.
How often do we see reports about the housing market that seem to show that things are improving, only to find another report that seems to completely contradict the first? And how about when two reports “hit the headlines” at the same time, and seem to be covering the exact same issue, yet conclude with [...]
As we continue to get settled in on the new Tallahassee Real Estate Web Site, we hope to establish some great reporting patterns for our different readers to key in on. One big goal is to tackle a reporting schedule for all of the different housing reports that we maintain.
If you haven’t checked out what [...]
This week is the final week of 2009, but it is also the final week of the “old” Tallahassee Real Estate Blog. We are working feverishly to bring the new site online, and I do not think you will be disappointed.
Some of the really neat things on the new site are ready and can be [...]
Recently, somebody asked me how home sales in Northeast Tallahassee are holding up. I explained that this part of the Tallahassee real estate market accounted for roughly one half of the home sales (49% over the past twelve months) and was performing stronger than the other three quadrants of Leon County.
Just a reminder, you can [...]
A new white paper was released yesterday by the Cato Institute which boldly claims that the cause of the housing bubble isn’t what everybody else has been talking about for the past few years. In this policy analysis, Randy O’Toole argues that the blame rests on a regulatory system known as growth management, saying
Some people [...]
I am working on completing the Tallahassee Real Estate Market Report for the Month of October, 2008. If you are reading this right after post time, some of the links on the pages you end up on might not be active yet. If so, just give them an hour or so.
The previous Tallahassee Real Estate [...]
In case you are new to the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog, this is a reminder that the September real estate reports have been posted on The Market Bulletin.
The month of September saw a continuation of the slower sales for homes in Tallahassee. Unit sales were very low for September in the Tallahassee real estate market. [...]