Kathleen West - Palm Coast/Flagler County
Palm Coast & Flagler County Real Estate
Over the past 2 years we have seen a very dramatic, and very positive, change in local market conditions. The average number of days on the market is down below 100 days in Palm Coast and slightly over 100 in all of Flagler County year-to-date. We continue to see the number of residential home sales […]
We saw a fantastic and exciting year for real estate in Flagler County and Palm Coast to say the least. There were several highlights to the year: The number of houses for sale decreased dramatically with 867 currently for sale. This number has typically been up around 2,000 at any given point in time over […]
June finished out a good month for sales in the area with 187 houses sold. This was just slightly over June last year when 184 sold. Through June of this year we are still 32% above last year for the same time period. As you can see in the chart below we are on a […]
Residential House Recap June has been an active month as usual, but is currently not showing the same positive pace as the preceding months have this year. This past week came in with 27 residential house closings with the lowest being $66,800; the highest at $274,900; for an average price of $133,481; a median price […]
As you might have been hearing in news reports, the Real Estate Housing Market is showing positive signs. The truth is that the local market has been showing positive signs for the last couple of years.
Let me start by saying, Trulia.com and Zillow.com are great companies that I think bring great additional resources for home shopping to consumers. I love their websites and resources they offer. Zillow.com became a hit with it’s “Zestimate”. Just recently Trulia.com launched, what I am guessing is a competitive response to Zillow’s “Zestimates”, called “Trulia Estimates”. […]
If you’ve been thinking about selling your house you may have come across the advice to to a “For Sale By Owner”. Whether selling yourself or through an agent, advertising online and in an MLS (notice that I didn’t say “the MLS”, and I’ll explain this more in a moment) is extremely important nowadays. Some real […]
We’re through October and the local real estate market has been another year of some real positives. It’s also been a year of interesting developments too.
Like the rest of the country, Flagler County and Palm Coast saw a dip in the number of home sale closing in July to the tune of about 28%. 103 homes closed in July of this year compared to 142 in July of 2009. Year to date, the area still remains 7% above last year through August 25th in terms of the number of home sales. August through 8/25/10 has seen 82 closings and is slightly below the same period in August last year when 94 homes closed.
So you searched through homes. You’ve visited each one. And you’ve narrowed it down to which homes(s) your Making an offer in Palm Coastare interested in. Now it’s time to make the offer. The question becomes . . . how much? This is the part that is a little more complex than most people think and a lot of factors should be taken into account.