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Sales dropped in Central Florida by quite a bit in September. Orange County saw a 43.5% drop in overall sales this week which was the worst of all of the Central Florida Counties.  The total number of Active Listings dropped by a net of 314 (or 1.94%) in Orange County over the same period but was...
10/04/2007
The first week of October unveiled the first look at September's numbers for Home Sales and was not pretty. The graph below shows the absorption rate change from week to week (from March 2007). By the way, up is bad! Suprisingly, though, inventories did decrease but not nearly as much (percentage...
10/04/2007
The fist week of October saw a dramatic slowdown in the Real Estate Market in Seminole County. Sales over the past 30 day period slowed down as much as 60% in some zipcodes like 32779 (Longwood).  September is typically a slow month but this is unusual.  Seminole County (as a whole) went from 12....
10/04/2007
The first week of October did not bode well for Seminole County Florida (or the rest of Central Florida for that matter).  The absorption rates sky rocketed this week which means that market time will increase and sales will slow even more!  Although September is typcially a slow month in the Rea...
10/04/2007
This is a graph of the absorption rate for 4 zip-codes in Seminole county that I keep track of on a Weekly basis.The market in Seminole County has out-performed Orange, Volusia, Osceola and Lake counties since I started keeping weekly statistics on them (3-27 of this year).  Look at my other blog...
09/28/2007
Hello everyone,Here are the stats for the week.  Please keep in mind that these are stats that I generate myself.  I pull these numbers directly from the Mid Florida Regional Multiple Listing Service. Don't hesitate to ask me questions about these numbers.  I'd be happy to answer any questions yo...
09/28/2007
*A woman decides to have a facelift for her 50th birthday. She spends $15,000 and feels pretty good about the results. On her way home, she stops at a newsstand to buy a newspaper. Before leaving, she says to theclerk, "I hope you don't mind my asking, but how old do you think I am?""About 32," i...
09/28/2007
 FOR SALE! BEAUTIFUL 1/2 ACRE + READY TO BUILD!MLS #04788560         Tennessee Ave.      Deltona, FL  32738               $65,0000Commission to the selling agent      5%Click here to see a Photo Story about the property  Tennessee ave Photo StoryI have had this property for quite some time now.  ...
09/27/2007
 #1 Prices are falling and Builders don't like refunding deposits!  Putting a deposit down on a home that is scheduled to be completed 6 months or even 3 months from now can be sticky.  With prices falling, appraisals are getting harder to come by.  Builders don't like dropping their contract pri...
08/28/2007
Central Florida Weekly Real Estate Market updateI've been selling Real Estate for a few years now. It seemed like the minute I learned how to start selling real estate well, I had to stop and re-learn everything all over again.I have experience building businesses and in my previous business my p...
08/27/2007
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