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Friday, February 17th, 2012
In this month’s John R. Wood Market Report, closed sales units are up 5% during the prior 12 months (2/1/11 – 1/31/12). Additionally, sales volume is up 7.5% during this same period.
In the luxury home market, units priced at $1,000,000 and above, closings are up 10% over the past 12 months. January 2012 pended sales priced below $250,000 have dropped 14% from this time last year. Pended sales remained brisk in January with almost 1,400 units, the highest level since April 2011.
The number of properties placed on the market in January was the lowest for the month since 2005. Available inventory on February 1, 2012 stands at 8,181 units (4,404 condominiums and 3,777 single family homes). Additionally, more neighborhoods are experiencing less than a one-year supply of homes for sale. Overall, available inventory represents a 22% decrease from February 1, 2011 and is approximately a nine-month supply.
To see the full Market Report including a detailed analysis, click HERE.
Don’t forget to look at the Neighborhood Snapshot Report for January 2012 as well!
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
It’s Valentine’s Day and, YES, we’re totally serious! Just imagine your significant other opening the small velvet box you’ve just handed over, knowing that what he or she is expecting is NOT in that box! What actually is in that box is a key…but not just ANY key! It’s a key to a luxurious condominium on the beach!
Ok, so this would take some amount of pre-planning, but any time of the year is perfect for purchasing a second or vacation home in beautiful Naples, Florida! Whether it’s a high-rise condo on the beach or a single-family home at a resort-style golf community, buying luxury property in Naples, Florida is always a great investment!
Aside from the fact that inventory is shrinking and home sales are increasing, Naples is second to none when it comes to the luxury beach and resort lifestyle! Enjoy miles of white sand beaches, incredible sunsets, lush preserves, dining and shopping, and world-class golf courses.
So, for your NEXT Valentine’s day why not start planning now! By this time next year, you and your sweetie could be admiring the ocean from your beachfront condo! WAY better than chocolate and flowers!!
Case in point, check out this amazing condo and the View!
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Monday, February 13th, 2012
Besides the obvious reasons that include great prices and low mortgage rates, there are some other reasons people want to buy homes. According to Inman’s Tara-Nicholle Nelson, increased conversations are taking place that center around people who want to buy and are defending reason to buy. Here are the most popular reasons she sites in her article:
I just want to own the place I live. The desire to be a homeowner seems to be the most popular reason. It may include a bunch of motivations, like tax considerations, the ability to gain equity over time, own the home and furnish as you desire. This popular reason may demonstrate that in the debate about whether a home is an investment or a place to live, the emotions around owning the place you live trump investment.
I want to buy now and move later. Warren Buffet’s assistant just famously bought a retirement home, years in advance, publicly stating that she did so on her boss’s advice to buy now and move later. This is a partially market-based sentiment, of course, as the rationale for buying right now is that prices and interest rates are low. But it’s also partially lifestyle-based, as this is a motive for buying that you’re much more likely to hear from those who have diligently saved and are currently well-employed, but look forward to moving to a locale with a lower cost of living in the years to come, when they change career paths or retire.
I don’t want to have to move anymore. The truth that living in a home you don’t own may mean moving when you don’t want to is a big emotional driver for home buying these days. It helps that rates and prices are low, and that many of these renters have been saving aggressively over the past few years.
Whatever your reason may be for buying a home, it’s hard to deny both the great value and lifestyle that you get by purchasing a property in Southwest Florida!
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Friday, February 10th, 2012
The John R. Wood Realtors’ February/March digital issue of Homelook is now available!
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Friday, February 10th, 2012
Lured by some of the lowest housing prices in a decade, foreign-born residents and visitors are buying U.S. properties at a rapid rate. More than 8 percent of all real estate sales in 2010 were to foreign nationals, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR).
Mortgage companies offer a variety of products to foreign nationals but the products’ accessibility and terms depend on the borrower’s immigration status and documentation of credit status in his or her home country.
International interest in U.S. properties is growing fast. Sales of real estate to foreigners increased from $66 billion in 2009 to $82 billion in 2010, according to NAR data.
In Florida, which accounts for 10 percent of the country’s immigrant population, foreign buyers accounted for almost 31 percent of all real estate transactions. Other states popular with foreign homebuyers include California, Texas, Arizona, Illinois, Tennessee and New York.
Foreign nationals tend to buy homes in communities where they already have roots or where large immigrant populations exist. In Florida, Cubans, Haitians and Colombians account for the majority of foreign buyers while in most of the Southwest, Mexicans make up the majority. Canadians are buying heavily all across the country.
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
According to a report from the Daily Real Estate News, the list of housing markets showing signs of improvement in home prices and overall market conditions in February has grown to nearly 100 cities, according to the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index.
The index shows metro areas that have shown improvement in home prices, housing permits, and employment for at least six straight months.
In the latest index, some markets that were particularly hard-hit during the housing market crash — such as Miami and Detroit — were added to this month’s list. Such cities are seeing a turnaround in their sluggish housing markets, possibly already hitting bottom.
“Despite the many challenges that continue to drag on the housing recovery — including the tight lending environment for builders and buyers — improving conditions are slowly but surely spreading from one housing market to the next,” Bob Nielsen, NAHB chairman, said in a statement.
The 29 metro areas added to the list this month are:
- Napa, Calif.
- Deltona, Fla.
- Miami, Fla.
- North Port, Fla.
- Tampa, Fla.
- Augusta, Ga.
- Shreveport, La.
- Springfield, Mass.
- Cumberland, Md.
- Lewiston, Maine
- Boston, Mass.
- Detroit, Mich.
- Duluth, Minn.
- Rochester, Minn.
- Jefferson City, Mo.
- Kansas City, Mo.
- Hattiesburg, Miss.
- Omaha, Neb.
- Ocean City, N.J.
- Syracuse, N.Y.
- Springfield, Ohio
- Youngstown, Ohio
- Portland, Ore.
- Longview, Texas
- Memphis, Tenn.
- Provo, Utah
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Bellingham, Wash.
- Kennewick, Wash.
While nearly 30 markets were added to the February index, seven markets dropped off the list this month as home prices started to soften. The metro areas dropped from this month’s index are: San Jose, Calif.; Washington, D.C.; Kankakee, Ill.; New Orleans; Worcester, Mass.; Jackson, Miss.; and Sherman, Texas.
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
The spring season usually brings an increase in buying and selling to the Southwest Florida real estate market. Nationally speaking, housing experts are mostly optimistic that this spring will be even better than recent years.
According to the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), some signs are already there: Housing inventories are declining, housing affordability is at record highs, mortgage rates are at all-time lows, and the job market is improving.
In Southwest Florida, home sales have been edging up in recent months, and available inventories as of January 1, 2012 in the combined Naples, Bonita Springs, Estero market was 7,896 units (4,264 condominiums and 3,632 single family homes). This represents a 23% decrease from January 1, 2011.
Nationally, nearly 2.4 million units were available in December 2011, reaching its lowest point since 2005, according to National Association of REALTORS® data.
NAR’s Chief Economist Lawrence Yun says home prices are beginning to stabilize in many markets. Also, NAR’s Housing Affordability Index is at its highest level since the 1970s, which indicates that for the average family housing is very affordable.
The National Association of Home Builders is also predicting an improvement this spring among the new-home sector. NAHB is predicting that home sales will increase 18 percent this year, that’s after facing their lowest on record in 2011.
There is no better time to buy a luxury home right here in Marco Island, Naples, Bonita Springs or Estero, Florida.
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Monday, February 6th, 2012
You know we had to do it! With everyone still discussing the Superbowl today, we had to come up with something clever to blog about today and integrate the Superbowl somehow!
Well, we cannot take all the credit! Some of the credit must go to the KCMBlog, where this original idea came from. We love the correlation between the job of the players and your relationship with those individuals that make your real estate transaction a successful one!
Thanks to the KCMBlog and their accurate opinion of how the team works best:
- Head Coach (Your Loan Officer) – Your loan officer should be the Head Coach. After careful analysis of your income, credit and assets, this is the person in the best position to make sure you are playing to your strengths and minimizing your weaknesses. Your loan officer can discuss the economic realities of homeownership, while listening to your quality of life concerns. The loan officer can set up the game plan.
- Offensive Coordinator (Your Real Estate Agent) – Your real estate agent is your offensive coordinator. Armed with the game plan. the agent calls the plays, counseling you on the geography, the competition, the best ways to negotiate your way to your personal touchdown. Agents know the playing field (the inventory and the market). If you hire them to represent you, they can disclose the weaknesses of your competition (the seller).
- Offensive Line (Your Attorney, Accountant and Financial Advisors) – Your attorney, accountant and financial advisors are your offensive line. They are there to protect you from the blitzes that come from outside (sellers, title issues, tax consequences, and protecting your assets). Not the glamour positions, but vital to any success you are going to have.
- Running Backs and Wide Receivers (Your Friends and Family) – Your friends and family are the running backs and wide receivers. They often receive the glory and attention, but honestly, if everyone else doesn’t do their job, they rarely ever see success. Bad game plans, weak play calling, poor execution on the offensive line or by you, as quarterback, leave them merely as names on the roster.
As with any team, communication is the most important component to getting the desired results. Being the center of the action, the quarterback (you) talks honestly with the coaches and coordinators, so they can help direct you on the proper play calling.
Simultaneously, you need to heed the feedback from your offensive line, running backs, and receivers to filter wise advice from emotion.
Let John R. Wood assist you in being the “quarterback” of your home-buying process! We are ready to be your “Offensive Coordinator” and find you the right vacation or home-away-from-home property!
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Click HERE to read our latest issue of Homelook Weekly!
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
According to Realtor.com’s Top 10 Turnaround Town list, Naples, Florida makes the list for this quarter. Powered by a 13.38 percent year-over-year increase in median list prices, seventh best in the nation overall, and a 35.94 percent reduction in for sale inventory, the median age of inventory in Naples is down 13.64 percent compared to a year ago.
The demand in Naples, FL has been fueled by foreign buyers as the city attracts 6 percent of Florida’s international sales. While not everyone is considering Naples as a bullish market, according to the Naples Area Board of Realtors (NABOR), sales are up and prices are moderating.
The latest sales data from NABOR confirms that the market is changing, but moving in the right direction. Sales of December single family homes are up 5 percent from December 2010. Inventory is down 17 percent percent from a year ago.
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Source: UPI.com and NABOR
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