December 31, 2010 – Today seems to be the right day to publish the final 2010 Housing Market Update. Our data is current and our real estate graphs are prepared, so let’s take a last look at the 2010 state of the Tallahassee housing market. Pending home sales are in a positive trend. While the c
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12/31/2010
If you saw yesterday’s video on how to review a business on google, then you might be interested in today’s video on how to create a gmail account. Many of yesterday’s viewers appreciated the video and why it would be beneficial, but many people either had questions about having a gmail account o
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12/30/2010
Have you ever wondered how to provide a review of a local business in Google? I was doing a google search for “realtor in tallahassee florida” when I came across our web site and noticed that there were five Google business reviews of CENTURY 21 First Realty by our customers. I can tell you it w
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12/29/2010
I received a lot of feedback from yesterday’s blog about turnover rates in Tallahassee neighborhoods. The most common question related to subdivisions that were not listed in the post, such as this question from Gene Ward who wrote Why wasn’t Highgrove included in this survey? Since there are ov
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12/28/2010
As a REALTOR® in Tallahassee, Florida who does a lot of marketing on the internet, I like to see what others are doing around the Country and around the world. I was pleasantly surprised tonight as I was checking out our customer ratings on Google. I had been googling “realtor in victoria bc” aft
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12/27/2010
"If the seller does not hear from the listing agent for several days, the fear of abandonment begins to emerge." So true. We work as a team as well at our office to ensure that we communicate with our sellers.I've always been a listing agent, and I think it's because I like the control. Listing
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12/27/2010
In preparing for our Weekly Special Housing Report which is emailed to subscribers every Monday morning, I poured through a lot of data on Tallahassee Subdivisions in order to find out which ones had the highest turnover rate. To measure the turnover rate, I divided the number of existing home s
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12/26/2010
Yesterday, the National Association of REALTORS® released the November edition of the Existing Home Sales Report and and pointed out a positive trend for the first time in five months. Of course, any time NAR releases a report, we have to look at Lawrence Yun’s spin on what it says. As NAR chief
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12/23/2010
You probably have been somewhere in Tallahassee and seen QR codes and wondered to yourself what they were all about. Are they some new form of rorschach inkblot test, or perhaps a maze game created to drive you mad. No, QR codes are nothing more than bar codes with spots instead of the tradition
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12/22/2010
Everybody knows that we have a lot of homes for sale in Tallahassee, but we do not often go into great detail about what is on the market. Today’s blog post will show a simple break-down of the offerings in the Tallahassee housing market. One of the first questions people ask when they start the
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12/21/2010