Bob Strader on December 16th, 2011

It’s Listember! You know, that month when everyone puts out a list of stuff. Not to be left out, we’re doing the same.
Looking back at the end of the year, it’s always fun to see what the most expensive homes sold were for a particular area. Of course, homes on Lake Lanier are an obvious [...]

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Bob Strader on October 12th, 2011

What a difference from one year ago.
Generally speaking, sales of homes in North Atlanta are up and inventory is down. On the lake, the number of sales are flat, but the rest of the numbers are significantly improved.

List prices are up, but more importantly, average sales price and median sales price for Homes on Lake [...]

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Bob Strader on August 5th, 2011

A quick look at home sales on Lake Lanier doesn’t show a great recovery but does reflect that Lake Home sales have stabilized. Comparing second quarter year-over-year (YoY) in the chart below, the only real good news is that prices are not continuing to decline:

You don’t see the underlying data but there were no sales [...]

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Bob Strader on April 21st, 2011

Sales on Lake Lanier occur almost entirely in three counties; Hall, Forsyth and Dawson. While there are some lake properties in Gwinnett, their quantities are statistically insignificant. As you can see, comparing the first quarter of 2011 with the first quarter of 2010, transactions and average sales price appear to be up.

 
Don’t read too much [...]

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Bob Strader on November 11th, 2010

I’ve pulled together three separate spreadsheets for Home Sales on Lake Lanier in the third quarter of this year. I think the data is pretty interesting and identifies something I would not have guessed. More lake properties have been sold in Hall County than Forsyth and Dawson combined. In fact, 54% of all sales for Q3 were [...]

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Bob Strader on October 31st, 2010

15
The number of homes on Lake Lanier, with a dock, that sold in October. (3 more than October 2009)
On the last day of each month I post a “Big Number” or interesting figure related to real estate in our area.

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Bob Strader on September 23rd, 2010

Year-to-date there have been 132 properties sold on Lake Lanier (with a boat dock) compared to 83 for the same period last year. I wanted to look at some differences between Lake Foreclosures vs. Non-Foreclosures to see what the impact has been on traditional equity sellers. The breakdown for these numbers are seen the in [...]

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Bob Strader on August 31st, 2010

85%
The increase in the number of homes sold on Lake Lanier (with a boat dock) over the same period last year. Jan 1 thru Aug 31.

On the last day of each month I post a “Big Number” or interesting figure related to real estate in our area.

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Bob Strader on March 29th, 2010

Wow, check it it out! This new listing just hit the market on Lake Lanier. At nearly $800,000 it sits on an acre of land and has a covered single-slip dock. What? Not to your liking? Maybe it’s the exterior of the home? Or maybe you don’t like the kitchen. Of course, how would you [...]

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Bob Strader on September 9th, 2009

We’ve all been reading about the up’s and down’s of Lake Lanier and hearing too much about the tri-state water wars but the recent holidays and nice weather have brought many boaters, anglers and weekender’s out to enjoy the great weather and still good water levels.
However, the one thing that still hasn’t re-emerged in earnest is the [...]

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