December 2011
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Sugar Hill, GA, Market Report, November 2011
[caption id=”” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Image via Wikipedia”][/caption] Market stats for Sugar Hill, GA , November, 2011 indicates that there are 173 homes on the market.  Overall, there is about an 5.3 month supply.  There were 34 sales, compared to 18 last month and 15 last November.  The Absorption Rate (AR) actually increased,...
Dec 30th
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Wayback Wednesday... The Dad Seminar.
Let me start by saying Thank You to my Dad.  I miss him just about every day, and I had NO idea how much he did, hid, put up with and shouldered… without ever saying a word. Last year I wrote a post about our last trip to Disney World… specifically about the “rolling dad Seminar” that I was able to engage in. “Rolling Dad Seminar, you say?” You have to check...
Dec 28th
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Lilburn, GA Market Report, November 2011
[caption id=”” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Image via Wikipedia”][/caption] Market stats for Lilburn, GA, November, 2011, indicates that there were 398 properties on the market (as of November 30th).  Overall, there was about an 8.2 month supply of properties and 41 properties that closed (sold) in November.  It was an increase from...
Dec 26th
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Suwanee, GA, Market Report, November 2011
[caption id=”” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Image via Wikipedia”][/caption] Market stats for Suwanee, GA, November, 2011 indicate that there are 502 properties on the market (down from 579 last month).  Overall, there is about an 7.0 month supply of properties (up from 6.6 last month).  November had 53 sales.  Compared to 2010 (48), that...
Dec 23rd
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Wayback Wednesday... A Gift That KEEPS On...
[caption id=”” align=”alignright” width=”142” caption=”Image via Wikipedia”][/caption] This is the time of year when everyone is thinking about gifts.  Some are buying, others are thinking about what they might be getting.  Some may be doing some of both.  There are lots of types of gifts.  The first thing that many of us default to are the big...
Dec 21st
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Norcross, GA, Market Report, October 2011
[caption id=”” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Image via Wikipedia”][/caption] Market stats for Norcross GA, October, 2011 indicate that there were 288 properties on the market.  Overall, there is about a 4.9 month supply of properties.  This year has been very strong so far… although April and May weren’t that strong (April was...
Dec 19th
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Buford, GA, Market Report, October 2011
[caption id=”” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Image via Wikipedia”][/caption] Market stats for Buford, GA, October, 2011 indicate that there were 497 properties on the market.  Overall, there was about an 6.5 month supply of properties (Absorption Rate or A/R).  There were 77 sales for October, down slightly from 79 last month and up a good...
Dec 16th
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Wayback Wednesday... Zestimate Accuracy in...
You just have to love Zillow’s Zestimates.  Log in and look… poof… there is the Zestmate for your home.  Couldn’t be easier.  It’s almost too easy.  OK, it IS too easy.  And while I love the Zestimate just as much as everyone else, I also know that the chances of it being right are pretty slim. I don’t want to slam Zestimates, though.  They actually ARE quite...
Dec 14th
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Sugar Hill, GA, Market Report, October 2011
[caption id=”” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Image via Wikipedia”][/caption] Market stats for Sugar Hill, GA , October, 2011 indicates that there are 169 homes on the market. Overall, there is about an 5.0 month supply. There were 18 sales, compared to 27 last month and 20 last October. The Absorption Rate (AR) dropped, but that is...
Dec 12th
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Suwanee, GA, Market Report, October 2011
[caption id=”” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Image via Wikipedia”][/caption] Market stats for Suwanee, GA, October, 2011 indicate that there are 539 properties on the market (down from 579 last month).  Overall, there is about an 6.6 month supply of properties (down from 6.7 last month).  October had 83 sales.  Compared to 2010 (58), that...
Dec 9th
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Wayback Wednesday... Absorption Rate, What Is It?
[caption id=”” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Image via Wikipedia”][/caption] A couple of years ago I wrote a post describing what Absorption Rate meant.  I use it as a primary tool on my monthly market reports, so it is a pretty important term to understand. The fun part was that I used frozen pizza to illustrate the point…  It...
Dec 7th
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Duluth, GA, Market Report, October 2011
[caption id=”” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Image via Wikipedia”][/caption] Preliminary stats for Duluth, September, 2011 indicated that there were 444 properties on the market.  Overall, there is about an 6.2 month supply of properties.  Sales in September were 62, slightly up from 60 a year earlier.  But, sales were slightly down...
Dec 5th
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Lawrenceville, GA Market Report, October 2011
[caption id=”” align=”alignright” width=”300” caption=”Image via Wikipedia”][/caption] Market stats for Lawrenceville, GA, October, 2011, indicate that there were 1346 properties on the market.  Overall, there was about a 5.2 month supply of properties. In 2010, sales for October were at 154, so 263 sales was a pretty good increase, year over...
Dec 2nd
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