If you don’t have a termite bond, get one. If you have one and the renewal rate has skyrocketed, here’s why it happened and what you can do about it.This spring has been a very active one for termites, those wood destroying insects that can cause thousands of dollars in damage to your home befor
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06/12/2019
July 11, 2017: DAPHNE, Ala.: Homebuyer Mr. A. C. broke down and cried like a baby when Agent English released her somewhat secret dossier of comparable sold properties, after their not-so-secret meeting in an unnamed subdivision in the burgeoning Jubilee City beside Mobile Bay. “I shudda bough
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07/12/2017
What happens when the population of your former farm-country county soars by 26,298 over a six-year period? That’s 12 people a day, according to U.S. Census data reported by AL.com. What happens when this rate actually accelerates, as it did from 2015-2016, with 4,873 new folks making Baldwin C
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04/13/2017
U.S. home prices hit a new peak in October, according to monthly figures, though the data-provider warned that the pace of growth cannot continue forever.-- CNBC report Dec. 27, 2016, on the S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price IndexThe average price of a home sold on the Eastern Shore of th
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01/10/2017
Average home sales prices rose 8% in 2015 and the number of sales jumped 21%. That means we are nearing the market highs of 2007-08, before the Big Tumble clipped 29.5% off home prices on the Eastern Shore. What to make of things then, and now? The big takeaway, for me, is that our communities ha
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01/20/2016
Remember I talk about the market taking a breather. Well, it happened in August. But it really wasn’t too bad.In Spanish Fort, Daphne and Fairhope, 155 homes closed, compared with 196 in July. Sales prices continue to wobble up and down. Inventory dipped again.But buyer activity in September is p
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09/10/2015
Home sales are blistering hot with 525 sales in Spanish Fort, Daphne and Fairhope in the 2nd Quarter of 2015.This one quarter eclipses any records I have since I started this newsletter back in the early 2000s. It’s better than after Hurricane Ivan in 2004, when so many in south Baldwin County re
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07/08/2015
Home sales spiked in May, with an increase of 31% over the previous month on the Eastern Shore of Mobile, Ala.Sales in Spanish Fort, Daphne and Fairhope increased from 147 to 194. Pending sales dropped 8% from 325 to 296. Here’s what’s happening on the Eastern Shore :Total houses for sale: 877 c
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06/09/2015
Sorry, don’t have much time. Gotta go … but how many days in a row can I work? … Vitamin C? Got it. Aspirin? Yep. And thank heaven for paperless transactions!See, the number of homes sold on the Eastern Shore is up 36% from this time last year. And the average sales price rose 8.7%. So it’s busy
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04/21/2015
Home sales soared 55 percent in May compared to April in Spanish Fort, Daphne and Fairhope. Prices also increased 2 percent and days on market dropped to 4.5 months on the Eastern Shore of the Mobile, Ala., metro area. Sellers on average sliced 2.5 percent off their list price in order to sell.
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06/10/2014