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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Bob Strader on December 28th, 2009

It’s official - Metro Atlanta is past the bottom - We’re seeing the beginning of the end.
OK, I’m not saying that we have arrived where we want to be, the continuing road to recover will still take a while. However, the numbers for November home sales in Metro Atlanta are in and, as expected, closings [...]

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Bob Strader on November 24th, 2009

The number of homes sold increased for all of Metro Atlanta in October but the significant jump in homes sold in Forsyth County show strong signs that a recovery is on the way and Forsyth County Real Estate will lead that recovery for our area.
Metro Atlanta Data
The October 2009 data is in for metro Atlanta [...]

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Bob Strader on November 12th, 2009

Why you should put your home on the market NOW! (and no, I’m not crazy)
As you probably have heard, the first-time home buyer tax credit has been extended through April 30th 2010 and expanded to home buyers who have owned their own home for 5 of the past 8 years - they are eligible for a $6500 [...]

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Bob Strader on September 28th, 2009

 Why can’t I find a $250,000 home for about $150,000?
I’ve had more than a few people ask me this question lately. There are still a lot of home buyers looking for great deals but the all seem surprised when they aren’t finding many foreclosures out there. Sure if you just search for any foreclosure in North Atlanta [...]

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Bob Strader on September 14th, 2009

As reported recently by The Nielsen Company, Forsyth County Ga has made the top 10 list of counties where the young and affluent choose to buy homes and live. Of the top 50 counties in the U.S. where the young and wealthy choose to buy homes, 16 counties are in and around Washington DC. However, [...]

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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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Bob Strader on August 22nd, 2009

Sales have been on the rise since February and we are definitely turning the corner.
The numbers are nearly all in for July and in Forsyth County there were 198 homes sold with another 38 property which were scheduled to close but have not been updated in the system yet. If they all made end of [...]

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