Both Houses, President OK Tax Credit Extension, Expansion

The House  and the Senate  passed legislation to extend the $8,000 home buyer tax credit to May 1, 2010, for first-time buyers and add a $6,500 tax credit for repeat buyers if they’ve lived in their home for five of the past eight years. Home prices are capped at $800,000. The legislation in both houses [...]

Stats Continue To Look Good :-)

LISTINGS
Residential (Single Family & Condo)

Oct. 19 – 25, 2009
505

Last Year 
509

SOLDS
 

Oct. 11 – 17, 2009
236

Last Year 
195

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LISTINGS
Residential (Single Family & Condo)

Oct. 12 – 18, 2009
522

Last Year 
492

SOLDS
 

Oct. 4 -10, 2009
239

Last Year 
191

LISTINGS
Residential (Single Family & Condo)

Oct. 5 – 11, 2009
579

Last Year 
544

SOLDS
 

Sept. 27 – Oct. 3, 2009
351

Last Year 
325

ECONOMISTS ENCOURAGE TAX CREDIT EXTENSION

When Congress passed an $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers last winter, it was intended as a dose of shock therapy during a crisis. Now the question is becoming whether the housing market can function without it.
As many as 40 percent of all home buyers this year will qualify for the credit. It is [...]

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LISTINGS
Residential (Single Family & Condo)

Sept. 28 - Oct. 4, 2009
588

Last Year 
566

SOLDS
 

Sept. 20 – 26, 2009
255

Last Year 
261

LISTINGS
Residential (Single Family & Condo)

Sept. 21 - 27, 2009
605

Last Year 
533

SOLDS
 

Sept. 13 – 19, 2009
258

Last Year 
172

Statistics

LISTINGS
Residential (Single Family & Condo)

Sept. 14 – 20 , 2009
630

Last Year 
360 (Re: Power Outage of 2008)

SOLDS
 

Sept. 6 – 12 , 2009
199

Last Year 
220

 
LISTINGS
Residential (Single Family & Condo)

Sept. 7 – 13, 2009
533

Last Year 
633

SOLDS
 

August 30 – Sept. 5, 2009
291

Last Year 
218

6 Ways To Keep Your Lawn Looking Good This Fall

By Erica Christoffer, Contributing Editor, REALTOR®Magazine Trey Rogers: The Yard Doctor
There is no better time than fall to get yards looking great, according to the “Yard Doctor” Trey Rogers, a professor of turfgrass management in the crop and soil sciences department at Michigan State University. Here are 6 tips from Rogers to help you and [...]

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LISTINGS
Residential (Single Family & Condo)

August 31 - Sept. 6, 2009
652

Last Year 
533

SOLDS
 

August 23 – 29, 2009
288

Last Year 
261

More Sellers Turn to Rentals

More people are becoming landlords in an economy where selling a home can be challenging.
The nation’s second-largest home insurer, Allstate Corp., says the number of homeowners converting their homeowners insurance to landlord policies rose 27 percent in the first quarter of 2009.
Jim Bass of Jim Bass Real Estate Group in Frederick, Md., says he has [...]

Sales Still Steady :-)

LISTINGS
Residential (Single Family & Condo)

August 17 – 23, 2009
587

Last Year 
690

SOLDS
 

August 9 – 15, 2009
250

Last Year 
230