I’m on vacation this week so I’m slacking on the blog posts. I have two charts that show a continued trend in Forysth County for home sales. The first chart shows the change in the number of homes sold as compared to the same quarter of the previous year. As you can see, the number [...]
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That seems to make sense….
Metro Atlanta
The June 2010 numbers for home sales data in metro Atlanta just came out and as you would expect, the number of home sales is down over June 2009. It was widely reported that once the tax credit was over we would see a drop in sales so it isn’t [...]
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Total number of properties in Forsyth County listed with stables. That is out of 2119 total listings. Is it a sellers market for horse properties in Cumming?
On the last day of each month I post a “Big Number” or interesting figure related to real estate in our area.
No, Hedgewood Homes has not been resurrected but some of the same principles from Hedgewood (and an investor) have purchased 50 lots in Vickery and currently have 2 spec homes going up. The lots break down to 14 townhomes and 36 single family lots, most of which are on slabs, with just a 4 [...]
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As reported in Newsweek’s annual ranking of the top High Schools in the nation, South Forsyth High School ranked 199, just behind two other north Atlanta High Schools Walton and North Gwinnett . There are 19 Georgia high schools in the top 500, with 13 of them being located in North Atlanta. I’ve highlighted those schools below among the list [...]
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There are five values for every property. The Seller’s, Buyers, Tax Accessor’s, The Realtor’s and the Appraiser’s. In theory they should all be close together.
I consider myself to be conservative when it comes to property values. When I do a market analysis for a client i make it clear what the top and bottom [...]
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The number of bank owned properties on Lake Lanier with a dock. That is out of a total of 493 lake homes available. Clearly a sellers market if you are looking for foreclosures.
On the last day of each month I post a “Big Number” or interesting figure related to real estate in our area.
Well…sort of.
I learned something new recently and I have to admit, I still can’t believe it’s true. We had a buyer under contract to close on a foreclosure by the end of the month. Of course, with foreclosures you have the ability to perform an inspection but typically they are purchased as-is. Banks usually [...]
You may have read recently that the Georgia DOT awarded Forsyth County a Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Grant of $500,000. This will fund the design and construction of a trail system for Vickery Creek Elementary and Vickery Creek Middle school campuses.
The Safe Routes to School programs enable community leaders, schools and parents across [...]
The first time home buyer tax credit is definitely doing what it should be doing as sales for homes in that price range have surged over the past 30 days. A look at the numbers is revealing, there were 150 home sales in March 2009, 170 in March 2010 but at the time of this [...]
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