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.

 
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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 31st, 2011

9.7
The months of available inventory for Residential Attached homes in FORSYTH County. At the time of this post there are 207 active listings, 255 sold over the past 12 months.  Definition: residential attached includes townhomes and condos.
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Bob Strader on January 18th, 2011

We are well into January, 2011. The economy is what most people are thinking about as they wonder where things are headed. Around this time of year there are plenty of people who look into their crystal balls and make predictions…or throw things up to see what might stick. I’ll probably do a little of [...]

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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 October 17th, 2010

Buyer activity seems to be off right now. Most of the buyers out there don’t seem to have anything to sell, they are for the most part in a position to buy, but are hesitant to pull the trigger. Many of those buyers who are making offers are making very low offers. Anectodatly I’ve spoken [...]

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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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