Today’s buyer has many choices of homes to choose from and has the ability to preview as many as their time allows. Using the internet, buyers can preview and “eliminate†hundreds of homes for sale. As they view these homes, they are looking for reasons to eliminate it from their list. The reasons are varied – they may think it needs too much work, is too small, don’t like the color it’s painted, etc. The reality is that the house may be a good fit for them and the reason they choose to eliminate it from the list could be easily rectified.
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A look at a few key metrics tell the story. New Albany Real Estate is on the rebound. While first portion of 2010 was driven by tax incentives and first time home buyers, we really just "borrowed" future sales from July and Aug to hit the June 30th deadline. We were really pretty flat through mid 3rd Quarter 2010. Then we had a good finish and pushed ahead of 2009 in these important areas:
You don’t have to look too hard for some encouraging real estate news in New Albany from last year. Overall, prices stabilized and unit sales were up 13% over the 2009 numbers versus a 5% decrease in unit sales in the entire Columbus Board of Realtors. As you will see in the chart below, some neighborhoods faired a little better than others. The New Albany Links and New Albany Country Club communities significantly improved in units sold but lost a little ground in sales prices while The Preserve and Albany Park saw improvement in sales prices.
Kate & Tony Thomas Out Front (Again) In our effort to always bring cutting edge marketing to our clients, we have just introduced QR codes on our listing yard signs. We were first to use 800 #s, then texting and now QR.  So What's QR Code? QR codes are like a UPC code in the grocery store, except instead of recording a price and a SKU, when you scan them with your smart phone,...
OK, so here's the details of So How We Doin' New Albany by neighborhood: NACC Homes Sold 2010 Hampsted Village Homes Sold 2010 New Albany Links Homes Sold 2010 The Preserve Homes Sold 2010 New Albany Park Homes Sold 2010
New Albany residential real estate market...improving with cautious optimisim
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We all love our homes, and when it's on the market we wonder why the buyers don't love it as much. They should be lining up and walking through admiring every detail as you do, yes? There's a reason that some homes sell quickly while others languish on the market, sometimes never selling. There are a number of factors why your home hasn't sold - some are impacted by you and others are...
Tony and I returned from vacation on Sunday. On Monday, I tackled a mountain of mail being held by the post office. The item I was most interested in was the notice from Joe Testa's office (Franklin County Auditor) announcing the proposed valuation of our home for 2008. Yours was probably just like mine – it shows no increase in valuation from 2007. 2008 is the year for the triennial update of...