Bob Strader on October 18th, 2011

Buckhead Meets Lake Lanier
When you walk through the front door of this home you won’t want to leave, but that’s ok. All your friends will want to come over. This home greets you. It entertains you. It brings the outside in and captures you. It’s chic and elegant surrounded by calm and tranquil. Homes like [...]

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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 September 27th, 2011

This short sale will hit the market soon and at a list price near $200k it should go fast.
Cool and kitsch meet lake cottage in this renovated A-frame. New kitchen with stainless steel opens to great room with hardwoods and great light from wall of windows overlooking private backyard and lake. Upstairs bedroom/loft has catwalk [...]

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Bob Strader on April 12th, 2011

It just depends on how you look at it.
We’ve just published the quarterly sales stats for home sales in Forsyth County as well as Lake Lanier home sales. First we’ll look at Forsyth County single family and townhome / condo sales. The bad news is that average sales prices are down significantly.
Comparing first quarter 2011 [...]

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Bob Strader on January 14th, 2011

Right now, in the middle of January with snow still on the ground, you might not be thinking about searching for a home on Lake Lanier. But you may be interested in how the lake did in 2010. I wanted to go back and review what sales of Lake Homes on Lanier looked like over [...]

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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 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 August 17th, 2010

The market so far this year has not been nearly as dismal as 2009, with sales of homes in Forsyth County for the first half of 2010 being up over the same period in 2009 by 21.5%. It’s a good sign but the question on everyone’s mind is “what will the second half be like?”. [...]

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absent, dead, extinct, few and far between, hallucinatory, hypothetical, illusory, imaginary, insubstantial, mythical, null and void.  Pick your synonym, either way it aint’ happening.
The water level on Lake Lanier has been back for a while, but the lake buyer has been elusive. Or is it that the Lake Seller hasn’t adjusted their expectations? With nearly [...]

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