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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
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Should you buy a home now or wait for prices to drop? It’s a question on everyone’s mind, but the answer isn’t as simple as it seems. In this video, we’ll explore the intriguing “91.6% Rule” and what it reveals about the housing market's past and present.Moving? Don't Ignore The 91.6% Rule  Please remember to "like" the post and the video on YouTube too! Thank you. 🏡  Link to all homes for sale in Tallahassee 📺 Subscribe To The Joe Manausa Real Estate Channel and Get More Housing Market Reports, Listings, Real Estate Marketing Tips, and answers to your frequently asked questions. 📘 Get the DIGITAL MARKETING BOOK Written by a Realtor for Realtors!
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
3994 Camino Real, Tallahassee, FL Click here to Get Directions$250,000 3 Beds - 2 Baths - Photos Maps & Local Schools Print Home is HERE! Great location for a well appointed home on large .47 acre lot! Enjoy vaulted ceiling, split bedroom floor plan, and absolutely NO Carpet at all! Tile or laminate flooring throughout. Spacious master suite with walk in closet. Separate living room and ample room in the kitchen to move around without bumping into anyone. Fenced backyard perfect for the pet! Compensation: 3% buyer's agent compensation Follow This Home
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
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2914 Fontana Street, TALLAHASSEE, FL Photos Maps & Local Schools Print Click here to Get Directions$395000 3 Beds - 3 Baths - 0.1 sqft Lot COMING SOON! This stunning 3-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom home, built in 2019 and "like new," is available in the desirable Premiere Canopy community. The conveniently located downstairs master bedroom boasts a spacious walk-in closet. Upstairs, you’ll find two additional bedrooms. The property includes a one-car garage and a partially fenced backyard, ideal for pets. Relax on the charming front porch with its picturesque view of the pond. Additionally, the home is within walking distance of the community pool, playground, and tennis/pickleball courts. Follow This Home
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
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7030 Spencer Rd, Tallahassee, FL Click here to Get Directions$790000 5 Beds - 4 Baths - 1.56 acres Lot Photos Maps & Local Schools Print Private showings start after Open house 9/8. Seller offering carpet credit with acceptable offer. Go and Show! Welcome to this expansive 5-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom brick home, boasting 3,385 square feet of living space on a peaceful, tree-lined acre near the desirable Ox Bottom area. This one-of-a-kind property offers the perfect blend of privacy and convenience, located near top-rated schools and nestled in a quiet neighborhood surrounded by lush trees and hedges. Highlights include a bright and airy Florida room perfect for year-round enjoyment, a newly updated master bathroom, and a two-car garage. A Generac generator ensures peace of mind during stor...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
Newer Homes Fair Best In Today's Market Yesterday's blog generated several comments and questions regarding home sales in the Tallahassee Real Estate Market. Specifically, one reader wanted to know if I saw any trend in home sales corresponding to the age of the homes that were selling. I found this to be an interesting question and one that I had never considered in the past. So....Back to the Tallahassee Board of Realtors Multiple Listing Service (MLS) I went. I pulled all the residential sales (Single Family Detached, Condos, and Townhouses) from the past month and all the way back to January of 2000 that occurred in Tallahassee. I then graphed the raw data to see if anything "jumped out." I determined the age of the home when it sold, and created five age groups: New (The home was 0...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
I was doing some research on property values in order to see how the market is handling the increased inventory. Two graphs of the data caught my attention. First, it appears that home prices are relatively stable in the Tallahassee Real Estate Market, as seen below: Average Home and Townhome Prices New Construction Home Prices have increased 10.6% over last year, while resale prices are down about 4.4%. The overall market of single family homes, townhomes, and condo's is priced down about 1.5%, with the average residential unit in the Tallahassee Real Estate Market selling for $203,500. I then wanted to see how Condo's were doing. Even though the residential market has slowed down 28% in units-sold, we can see that Condo's are still having a top-2 year on new construction sales, and a ...
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By Eva Armstrong, Environmental Visions
(Environmental Visions)
                                                                                           You don't go many places these days in the real estate world without running into questions or discussions about how to save money on utility bills.  As gas prices go up, so moves the electric and power bills.  In Florida it feels like we may be reaching a "tipping point."  Builders and contractors that once scoffed at the idea of environmentalists and conservation are seen attending builders' seminars on LEEDS certification and US Green Building Council criteria.  School Districts are finally coordinating the recycling programs that were mandated by the state legislature some years ago.  And commercial and residential buyers are inquiring about energy savings and green or sustainable building pra...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
from Creative Financing Offers Solutions for Buyers and Sellers Alike Now is a great time to be a home buyer in the Tallahassee Real Estate Market! You have choices, with inventory at an all-time high. You have motivated home sellers. You have historically low interest rates. So what is holding you back?Some of our Tallahassee Home Buyers come to us with problems related to financing the purchase of a home. I like to tell my Sales Associates that anyone who really wants to buy a home in Tallahassee can do it. The market conditions are perfect. The key is to understand all of the options that a home buyer has.One of the questions that seems to arise with a credit-challenged buyer, or a buyer with little cash, is "What is Creative Financing, and how do I use it to buy a home in Tallahasse...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
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With all the concern over the real estate market, I decided to do some research in the Tallahassee Board of Realtors Multiple Listing Service (MLS). I created a table for Leon County, by price range, and showed how we are doing this year versus every other year since 2000, for the months of January through August. I pulled data from all sales of residential properties (Single Family Detached, Condominiums, and Townhouses). The numbers in red indicate where we are doing worse this year, while the numbers in black indicate where we are doing better. From the table above, one can tell we've seen an overall drop of 28% this year versus 2006. We are down 29% versus 2005, but only down 19% and 10% from 2005 and 2004, respectively in the Tallahassee Real Estate Market. More importantly, we're ...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
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There has been a lot of talk lately in the Tallahassee Real Estate Market regarding where our pricing is going. We look at the condomium/Townhouse market and are amazed at what prices have done over the past 5-10 years. These have been the staple for students at FSU/FAMU/TCC and the other colleges in town. We can see from the pricing trend chart that they have really shot up. I have addressed the "why" in recent posts, but nothing shows the "why" like the corresponding chart of lot prices in Leon County, Florida.The cost of land plus the costs of developing has made the average lot price in Tallahassee zoom up to nearly $90,000. It is no wonder our condo's have gone up so high. I don't expect to see much downward movement in new condo prices until we see something happen to land prices....
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By Eva Armstrong, Environmental Visions
(Environmental Visions)
I'm big on living in the moment - taking life as it comes.  Usually that pays off in big dividends.  I don't have to worry about what comes next, or what happened yesterday, just live in the here and now.  That's how I came up with my second blog subject "Feeling a little Trashy...." as I was taking a morning walk and contemplating what I would write about that day.  I asked myelf what I wanted to write about, looked around and there it was:  Trash!It gets a little difficult when I'm not feeling well.  Like now.  Translation:  fighing a cold.  Runny nose, cough, tearing eyes.  In fact, I'm having trouble focusing on this screen.  But a commitment is a commitment, so I like to find ways to deal with life's little challenges.  Thus, the subject of today's blog..(how did this exercise in c...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
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Frank Telenta read my previous post about the Tallahassee Real Estate Market and requested to see the numbers by price range. I downloaded sales in the MLS for the Periods of January Through August for both 2006 and 2007. The following is a Tallahassee Real Estate Market Report for all price ranges:As you can see, we are down roughly 28% from last year. The "Discount" represents the sales price versus the original asking price. When I get some more time, I will do this report over a longer period of time.... until then, have a great day!Subscribe to this Blog: Joe Manausa, MBA, CRB, CRS | Broker / Owner | Century 21 First Realty 2365 Centerville Road | Tallahassee, Florida 32308 | 850-386-2001 | http://www.manausa.com/
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By Eva Armstrong, Environmental Visions
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Twenty-four plus years in public service exposed to me a variety of people from all walks of live.  They were rich, poor and middle-class people.  Well-educated and extremely bright, and those struggling to overcome learning disabilities.  Some even recently released from prison and trying to get their civil rights restored.  Over the years they served to teach me some key lessons about being successful when dealing with people and since real estate is ALL about dealing with PEOPLE, I thought readers of activerain might find these helpful.Lesson #1:     Always  --- ALWAYS   return phone calls!     My personal rule is within 24-48 hours.  And if you are caught up in a major closing or negotiation, which has happened to me, I suggest delegating the return the call to an employee or associ...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
After dealing with some very opiniated comments from readers of my Newspaper Blog, I decided I would post the presentation that I use to help people decide whether to Rent a Home in Tallahassee, or whether to Buy a Home in Tallahassee. Here is what I posted on my other blog:Tallahassee Real Estate: Rent or Own? Do you ever wonder whether or not it is better to rent versus owning your own home? This question comes up from time to time, and with all the negative news about the real estate market, we have fielded this question quite a bit lately. As a matter of fact, a very opinionated commenter to this blog (going by the name "Anonymous") said it was definitely much better to rent than own.I personally take a more analytical approach to this. You can set-up a simple spreadsheet in Microso...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
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I received a comment from a reader, Anne Tyler, suggesting that I expand yesterday's graphics to include some of the more affordable neighborhoods in Tallahassee. Because there are so many of them, I only included Leon County Subdivisions where the average selling price was below $160,000. This left me with over 200 Leon County Subdivisions to Graph! Hence, they are broken-up into three graphs, sorted by price range (Which is listed below each graph). Note, the red bars are subdivisions where the average current asking prices are lower than the previous year's average sales price.[Click Here For Tallahassee Affordable Housing Neighborhood Graphics]Subscribe to this Blog: Joe Manausa, MBA, CRB, CRS | Broker / Owner | Century 21 First Realty 2365 Centerville Road | Tallahassee, Florida 32...
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By Eva Armstrong, Environmental Visions
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How many of you know someone that fits this description:Young professional - single or divorced - renting - good credit - not sure they're ready for home ownership but know they're paying a significant amount in rent - possibly more than a house payment may be.          Sound familiar?Most of us have family or friends, or friends of friends in this category.  I have an office -mate that fits this description.  She's in her mid -30's, with kids, and admitted to me when I was talking to her about my real estate background that she was probably wasting money on rent.  As I spoke with her about the benefits of home ownership and asked if she had considered buying her own home, it became clear she was lacking the COURAGE to take that step.  She clearly recognized the benefits, and added she ...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
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In the vein of deal doctoring....let me relay a little story (Previous Deal Doctoring Blog)   So, one of our agents had a buyer.  And our agent found this buyer a beautiful house which he very much wanted and so they put a contract on the house.  Now this buyer was also selling a home.  He planned to use the proceeds from the sale of his existing home to buy down the mortgage of the new house.  Nothing new there.  Unfortunately, his existing home appraised for much less than he had anticipated.  Then, the house he had under contract appraised for less than the sales price.  The buyer saw this as an opportunity to make good on his lost equity, or at least the equity he THOUGHT he had, from his existing house.  So, he tried to renegotiate the sales price for the new house by dropping abo...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
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Every month I like to take a look at all the Subdivisions in Leon County, Florida to determine inventory levels as well as price levels. Sometimes, we can chart out information and see what is going on in the Tallahassee Real Estate Market much more clearly than we can with just numerical data.For example, I was wondering which Subdivisions in Tallahassee had the most homes on the market and I came across two interesting graphs. The first graph of Leon County Subdivisions shows the supply of homes in the Tallahassee Real Estate Market (Months of Supply). The Subdivisions in Red have significantly high levels of inventory, whereas those in green are much more normal (less than 9 months supply). I happen to live in Golden Eagle Plantation and you can see that it is a "red" neighborhood wi...
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By Eva Armstrong, Environmental Visions
(Environmental Visions)
As I started my morning walk this morning the Tallahassee air was a little cooler and dryer, just a hint of fall.  Quite nice.  Fall is a beautiful time of year in this part of the world and a great time for people to shop for new homes.   It was also trash collection day and as I walked by my neighbor's house, I noticed some extra beverage cans that I'm quite sure weren't their's lying next to the edge of the road.  So, good neighbor that I am, I picked them up, dropped them in the convenient recycle bin and continued my climb up the hill.     Another four cans, three bottles several candy wrappers & snack food containers later and I started to sense a trend.  Lucky for me the trash and recycle containers were on the street!  At first glance, you don't notice the trash that was lying a...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
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Golden Eagle Subdivision - A Pricing Trend Analysis I was doing some research for a client and found an interesting trend (interesting if you're a numbers type anyway) on the pricing in Golden Eagle Subdivision in Tallahassee, Florida . I was wondering if there existed any relationship between the properties that sold in Golden Eagle (how they were priced) and the properties that failed to sell in Golden Eagle (how they were priced). I created a trailing-12-month trend analysis for each, and the following graphic ensued. The green line represents a 12 month average Price Per Square Foot (PPSFT) of all the homes that successfully sold in Golden Eagle (in that time period), while the red line represents the corresponding 12 month average PPSFT of all the homes that failed to sell in Golde...
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By Eva Armstrong, Environmental Visions
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Up for a CHALLENGE?!?!?!!!   The challenge is this:  Post a blog on activerain for each of 30 consecutive days!     I'm a new real estate agent (5 months since receiving my license) although I worked in the real estate field for the State of Florida for almost 8 years.  My broker, Joe Manausa, a regular contributor to activerain, challenged me with this assignment.  Joe sees it is as a way to raise my visibility in the real estate community, ("oh my god, at what cost?" is what I'm asking myself right now???), raising my awareness of the importance the internet plays in the real estate world (it has NOT invaded the State of Florida's real estate business to THIS degree yet!!!) and to start making connections beyond those I already have around the state, (I can always use more!).     It s...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
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Often times, we work with Buyers who are tight on cash and are looking to save every nickel in the process of Buying a Home in Tallahassee. They ask for advice on things that they should do to save money. Invariably, the question arises as to whether they "really need to pay for a home inspection."Before I give you my answer to this, let me begin with the benefits of the professional home inspection. The Home Inspector will check every system in the home and give his or her professional opinion of its condition. As you are well aware, there are no "perfect" homes. He will provide you with a report that your Realtor will help break-down into three important lists: The first will contain all the items that the contract requires the Seller to repair; we refer to these as "Warranted Items."...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
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Now that I am blogging for the Tallahassee Democrat (our local newspaper), I have been very fortunate to run into some incredibly opinionated, not-so-educated people. I'm certain that YOU have met the one person that I am really going to talk about, after all, this is titled The Smartest Person I Ever Met!Of course, the All-Knowing, Expert At Everything-Person that I am referring to signs his/her name with great pride ...... AnonymousI thought I'd use this post to show you Anonymous's comments from the other day. Sorry about the typo's, but I am going to cut and paste so that you can get a feel for the hidden genious that resides within "Anonymous."I wrote a post Time to Buy Real Estate in Tallahassee, and these are the pearls of wisdom that were deposited in my message section:The Intr...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
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Time to Buy Real Estate? So many of our Buyers are asking us if now is the time to Buy Real Estate in Tallahassee, Florida. As someone who has been in the Tallahassee Real Estate Brokerage Business for 17 years, I can tell you it is, but that might seem biased.... Rather, I think with the help of a little common-sense analysis, I can show you it is definitely time to Buy Real Estate in Tallahassee, Florida! When buying any commodity, it always seems to be prudent to buy low and sell high (not exactly rocket science, huh?). So, looking to the future, we need to analyze the forces behind both supply-side drivers and demand-side factors:{Remainder of article with Great Information for Buyers in Any Market!}You can also post some (POSTIVE) comments at that link location. I'm getting hammere...
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