What everyone seems afraid to ask or….

What everyone’s afraid to ask….OR….. The “How’s the Market” Blog Another year has passed in the great recession that we all are going through. It has been a tough time financially for many of us. Being a real estate professional, I still get asked how the real estate market is, although admittedly not as often [...]

Ashland Summer Not So Hot

This has really been another mild Summer in the Rogue Valley. For an area that has normally seen a handful of 100+ degree days by now, they are nowhere to be seen. This is good news to many who do not like that hot weather…plus good news to keep the forest fires down, and the [...]

Ashland Real Estate Statisics-The lazy edition

Writer’s Block—-I’m going with that as the excuse for my extended absence. To push through the block…I am re-posting a previous blog post, except with all of the numbers current. If you want to see how it compares to the post in September of 2009, CLICK HERE Ashland Oregon Real Estate Statistics as compiled from [...]

End of Tax Credit

Pending sales are up nationally as the rebound from the “end of the tax credit” has worked its way through. I listen to a podcast from NPR called Planet Money.  They do a great job of making the financial news that we all keep hearing about, whether from the government, banks,  or Wall Street, etc…make [...]

An analysis of the effect of the home buyer tax credit

My last newsletter asked the question of what effect did the home buyer government stimulus money have? My answer was I thought that the short term impact was huge. But I was really curious about what the long term impact was going to be. And I concluded last time we’re really just in a wait [...]

Sales price to original list price at one year high

One of the statistics I track it what the sales price is in comparison to the original list price. This is different than sales price in comparison to final list price. What one will note in Rogue Valley Real Estate is that the statistics for sales price to the last listed price has stayed pretty [...]

Current Foreclosure and Short Sale Stats for Jackson County Oregon

According to the last few months of statistics, the success rate for short sales vs. REOs goes like this: There are 310 properties currently listed as short sales in Jackson County….in the last 3 months there have been 41 successful closes on short sale properties for a median sales price of $164,900. (An average of [...]

Zillow and Jackson County Real Estate

I am just a little amused by Zillow at the moment. I just watched a tutorial video about the accuracy of the Zestimate, and found that they keep track of how accurate they are on a state by state, and county by county basis. So obviously I go to see how Jackson County Oregon rates…and [...]

Seller’s Market under $200k—but not over

I’ve been looking at the added sales volume we have had in the Rogue Valley lately, and hearing stories (and experiencing) multiple offer situations. It has been feeling like a seller’s market in many ways. However, it all seems to be in the lower price range. So I just ran a few numbers. For the [...]

May Stats Are Here

With every set of statisics I run or receive there is always good news….and there is always some bad news. That is the nature of real estate. What is good for sellers, is not necessarily good for buyers…and vice versa. That being said…it appears that we are approaching a point in the market where the [...]