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In case you weren’t keeping an eye on the Market Reports page of the Tallahassee Real Estate Web Site, the new Tallahassee Home Inventory Report has been posted. This is a section of the web site dedicated to reporting “the numbers” as they occur. You might want to check out many of the daily reports that get posted there.

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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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I was contacted by a reader yesterday wanting to know if a property that we have listed for sale was also available for lease. She proceeded to inform me that she had called on the “Craigslist ad” that “we” ran and immediately thought about “real estate scams”, so she was contacting me directly. After checking on the property she was calling about, it turns out it was only for sale. The ad that she found on Craigslist really was a scam. In order to warn my readers

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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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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 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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The purpose of the relocation industry is to better facilitate the process of moving people from one community to another. When a local home buyer decides to buy a home, so much of the process of moving is not a big deal. But when a buyer from another community relocates to Tallahassee, many more concerns need to be addressed. A relocation expert will make that process go much smoother.

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We have received so many inquiries via our new Tallahassee Foreclosures Web Site about purchasing Tallahassee foreclosures that I am feeling like a recorded message. Many buyers want the perceived deals that “foreclosures” imply, so I figured I would lay out some advice that really fits our current times.
With so many of our homes upside-down [...]

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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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