Wayne's Real Estate Blog

  Forbes magazine just ranked Wichita, KS as the 9th best job market in the U.S.There are over 1,500 aircraft jobs going unfilled because of the lack of unqualified applicants.There are suppose to be an additional 6,000 to 8,500 job openings in Wichita next year. Learjet is building a new biz jet...

               Data from the 3rd quarter of 2007 is still showing our West office leading the city in listings sold.  Our 30 agents are out producing offices with well over 100 agents.Our company with around 45 agents was the #2 company in listing sold.  The company that beat us had over 300 agen...

Why buy in the Wichita, KS MSAWhy buy in 2007Why use RE/MAX and RE/MAX Realty Professionals  •·        CNN reported this Summer that Wichita, KS was the eighth most under valued market in the U.S. at 16.3% below national norms.•·        Forbes reported the Fall of 2007 that Wichita had the 9th be...

6 of the top 27 agents in units sold in the Wichita MLS were RE/MAX agents.  That's 22% and yet RE/MAX only has 6% of the total agents. As individual office go,  RE/MAX Realty Pro's West office was #1 in the city in Listings sold and #2 in total sales for the 1st 8 months of 2007. RE/MAX Realty P...

Up date for Wichita, KS metro area for Jan. 1 to July 31, 2007 7.054 homes have been sold so far this year, 98% of last years total at this time but 6% ahead of 2005's total at this time.New listings are running 96% of last years pace and total existing listings on the market are at 95% of last y...

Wichita real estate update: Summer, 2007The latest reported data from the Wichita Area Association of Realtors MLS shows homes sales off by 3% for the same time period in 2006 but still 9.5% higher than in 2005.  Existing listings and new home inventories were down 4% and 4.6% during the same per...

Wichita real estate market update: Some statistics of note for Wichita, KS and the local real estate market. CNN reported the 1st of June that the Wichita, KS real estate market was the 8th most under-valued market in the U.S.  According to National City Corp we were 16.3% under valued. Wichita r...

  During the 1st quarter 7.77% of all homes sold sold below $149,900. Only 4.1% of homes sold above $300,000. 13.2% of homes sold above $200,000 64.86% of agents that actually sold a home in the 1st quarter sold less than 4 sides.  Our minimum goal is 2 sides a month and only 16.4% of all MLS age...

Wichita MLS statistics for January 1, 2007 to March 31, 2007The number of residential sales in the 1st three months is down 7% from the same period in 2006 and up 10% from the same period in 2005.  The colder weather experienced this winter probably contributed to this decline along with some nat...

Real estate sales rebounded in March after February's 13% drop from the same period a year ago.  March sales were 40% higher than February's sales and only 7% below March, 2006's numbers.  Fortunately for the local area, new real estate listings were also down 7% from a year ago keeping the local...