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Tallahassee Housing Market Trends
Joe Manausa

Real Estate Blog Reader Sparks Change

Erwin Jackson has forced an outside agency (maybe the Attorney General) to review the legality of the 60+% raise at the Tallahassee City Commission. The raise will be seen as self-serving, highly unethical, and possibly illegal.

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Tallahassee Foreclosures Filings January 14, 2010

Tallahassee Foreclosures Filings January 14, 2010: This is a list of properties that received a lis pendens filing in Tallahassee, for the week ending 1/14/2010. Usually these properties will end up in foreclosures, short sales, or some type of distr

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All About Houses In Tallahassee

You can really get a great feel for the Tallahassee housing market by just “clicking around” the Tallahassee MLS Search Tool. It has never been so easy or fast to view Tallahassee houses.

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Let the Home Buyer Beware? Not in Tallahassee!

The Tallahassee Board of REALTORS® has gone to extraordinary lengths to create a contract to assure both buyers and sellers that they have several legal “outs” when banks, insurers, inspections, disclosures, and lack-of-disclosures raise red flags on

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Real Estate Advice
Joe Manausa

The Real Estate Finance Cycle Rolls On

Top list of creative techniques that is by no means exhaustive, but it represents the minimal set of ‘tools’ at which real estate professionals must be proficient in order to best help home buyers and home sellers today

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Pine Tip Hills Home Sales Report

The number of home sales in Pine Tip Hills rarely reaches one per month, and historically the average number of homes sold is just under 8 per year. Currently, there are 8 homes for sale in Pine Tip Hills.

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Popular Downloads

Popular downloads from the Tallahassee real estate web site, featuring newsletter archives, standard forms, informational forms, and many other documents popular with home buyers and home sellers.

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Tallahassee Housing Market Trends
Joe Manausa

Tallahassee Housing Report January 9, 2010

A comprehensive view of the Tallahassee housing market includes graphs of supply and demand, pending home sales in Tallahassee, daily home sales in Tallahassee, as well as several graphs with key real estate trends. This is the single most inclusive

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Tallahassee Community
Joe Manausa

100% Success by Menza Krause

Realtor, Menza Krause always strives for success when she lists a home for sale in the Tallahassee Real Estate Market. When she received a 100% Score on her CENTURY 21 Quality Service Survey, we knew she was successful.

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Tallahassee Mobile Home Sales Report December 2009

Mobile home sales in Tallahassee have reacted to the economic climate in the same manner as site-built homes. Unit sales of mobile homes seems to be starting to increase, but prices have fallen all the way down to $50,000. It seems like this could be

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Tallahassee Housing Market Trends
Joe Manausa

The Real Estate Double Dip

Prices in real estate trend more fluidly than they do in other industries, because each price reduction is an individual decision made in some household in the real estate market. This fluidity allows real estate professionals who closely study the m

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Tallahassee Foreclosures Filings January 7, 2010

Tallahassee Foreclosures Filings January 7, 2010: This is a list of properties that received a lis pendens filing in Tallahassee, for the week ending 1/7/2010. Usually these properties will end up in foreclosures, short sales, or some type of distres

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Three Keys To Selling A Home In 2010

If you have decided that you must sell a home in 2010, then you will find the following real estate advice both timely and beneficial. The 2009 PROFILE OF HOME BUYERS AND SELLERS from the National Association of REALTORS is a valuable resource for ho

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Tallahassee Housing Market Trends
Joe Manausa

Cash For Clunkers In Real Estate

Florida’s 20% ENERGY STAR Appliance Rebate Program will run from April 16 though April 25, 2010 and run in conjunction with Florida’s Earth Day events. To qualify for the rebate the ENERGY STAR appliance must be purchased during this period. There ar

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Real Estate Advice
Joe Manausa

New RESPA Rules Threaten To Choke Real Estate Closings

HUD requires that lenders and mortgage brokers provide consumers with a new, standard Good Faith Estimate (GFE) that clearly discloses key loan terms and closing costs. Closing agents are also required to provide borrowers with a new HUD-1 Settlement

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Whittling Down Housing Inventories

The important thing for both home buyers and home sellers in Tallahassee to understand is that “the market” covers all areas and all price ranges of homes for sale in Tallahassee, so the prudent consumer will study the Tallahassee Housing Supply and

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