Bob Strader on July 28th, 2010

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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Bob Strader on July 22nd, 2010

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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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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St Marlo makes me think of the Dickens Novel, The Tale of Two Cities. The quote goes, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. For those who purchased million dollar homes at the peak of the market, well, now is the worst of times. But if you are looking [...]

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Bob Strader on April 30th, 2010

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The number of months worth of inventory available in Forsyth County for Bank Owned properties. 137 are currently available, 531 have sold over the past 12 months. Clearly a sellers market if you are looking for foreclosures.
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Bob Strader on April 20th, 2010

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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Bob Strader on April 12th, 2010

I know that phrase usually applies to the weather in March, but we might experience something similar with real estate home sales. It’s what typically happens at this time of year. Home buyers and home sellers start getting the itch, want to move up or downsize, change schools, etc. Activity in Forsyth County has increased [...]

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Bob Strader on March 31st, 2010

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The total number of distressed homes available right now on Lake Lanier, with a boat dock. Out of 422 total listings, that is only 4.3%.
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 February 5th, 2010

I have a few clients looking for foreclosures on Lake Lanier so I’ve pulled together some statistics you might find interesting - I did. I took a look at homes for sale on Lake Lanier, by County, and broke that data down by distressed and non-distressed sales. Take a look at the following charts:

Homes available [...]

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Bob Strader on January 29th, 2010

There have been news reports recently that home sales across the country dropped off significantly from Nov 09 to Dec 09, but we looked at the year-over-year trends and found that home sales in Forsyth County for the 4th qtr. of 2009 were up 23.4% over 4th qtr 2008. There are several factors that are [...]

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