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What will 2012 bring to the real estate market?

gary — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:04:33 +0000

This year as well as the previous couple of years has been a year of uncertainty in the real estate market. As a homeowner wanting to sell, hard to believe that your investment is not as stable as you thought it always would be. Many homeowners, in order to sell their home, are settling for less, sometimes far less than what they paid for their home. Many investors see this as a good time to invest because their are some great values out there. Homebuyers see this as an opportunity to purchase the home of their dreams for a lot less than many thought possible just a few short years ago. Interest rates for a mortgage are still at historic low levels. Personally, I do not see much, if any, change in the real estate market next year. Hopefully it will begin stabilizing itself and then begin the road to appreciation soon.

Been awhile

gary — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:24:24 +0000

It has been several months since my last post. Real estate has been on a rocky road for a long while now. As I see it, there is not a turn around point yet in the market. Many homeowners trying to sell are finding that there are fewer qualified buyers for their property. Hopefully this year will be the turnaround year for the real estate market. Until next time……

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gary — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:03:24 +0000

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gary — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 02:04:20 +0000

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gary — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 02:00:03 +0000

Thanksgiving Day

gary — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:32:15 +0000

We are fast approaching another Thanksgiving Day coming up this week. It is hard to believe another holiday season is upon us. I would like to thank my Lord for His many, many blessings upon my life and family members. A special thank you to my son (in law), 1st Lt. Richard Dunkin for serving at this time in Afghanistan. He will be there during the Thanksgiving and Christmas season and pray God’s continued protection upon him and the men in his platoon. We eagerly await his return to the USA soil in July 2011. Until next time, God bless.

August home sales not good

gary — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:06:03 +0000

August home sales is the second worst month since 1964. Another indicator that the recession, according to the government was over mid 2009, has not been reversed. I feel that the bottom of all this mess has not been reached yet. We have nearly a 10% unemployment rate, some states much higher. People that have employment are concerned and uncertain about their future. This doesn’t make a good scenario for the economy as a whole and especially for the real estate market. Hopefully the economy will start to show signs of a turn around sooner than later. Maybe something will happen after the 2010 general elections which is only weeks away now.

July home sales nose dive

gary — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:53:49 +0000

According to the National Association of Realtors, existing home sales dropped sharply lower in July 2010 following the expiration of the home buyer tax credit. Existing home sales were down 27.2% from June 2010 sales of 5.26 million. Single family home sales are the lowest since May of 1995.

Good news is that the national home price average for July 2010 was $182,600, up 0.7% from July 2009. So maybe, just maybe we have been at the bottom and now we are slowly beginning to rise again.

Roller coaster ride

gary — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:44:12 +0000

The real estate market nationally as well as locally, in my opinion, is still on a roller coaster ride. Many homeowners hoping to sell are realizing that they may have to take less for their home if they want to sell it. When this happens several times in a given area over a period of a few months, it drives neighborhood values down.

When a homeowner in today’s market wants to sell their home by owner, it would be a very good investment to have a real property appraiser appraise their home before they put it on the market. The appraisal will be a good tool for them in determining the asking price and to be used in any negotiations they may encounter in the sale of their property. If you are one of those homeowners looking to sell your home “by owner”, give me a call for your personal appraisal report. I cover Muscogee and Harris counties regularly. Other counties I cover are Troup, Marion and Talbot.

Search engine optimization

gary — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:24:58 +0000

Until a few days ago, I never heard of this phrase. It is referred to in the web business as SEO. I really don’t know how to explain it and probably anyone reading this knows more about it than myself. There has to be something to it though as to my rankings on different search engines have become much higher since the new web site was rolled out several days ago. My son Nathan put this site together and told me a little about SEO. Should you need his expert assistance, he would be glad to hear from you and discuss your web site developing needs. A link to his photography web site is on the news page of this web site. You can contact him through there.

Tomorrow is Thursday, July 15th and will be busy with three appraisal inspections, two in Muscogee county and one in Talbot county in the big city of Box Springs, Georgia. Until next time, see you later.