Tracking the Waynesboro & Augusta Real Estate Market
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Thank you for stopping by! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!There is no shortage of news these days about “first time” home buyers. The media and various real estate organizations and even Realtors themselves are all telling us that this is a BUYERS MARKET, and [...]
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We left Part I of selling your home at the point where you’d fixed, painted and de-cluttered your home to show it in the best possible light. You also have priced to position yourself in the top 25% of homes on the market that are comparable to yours.
Let’s assume that your Realtor partner has [...]
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Assuming that you the seller, are not simply “testing the real estate waters”, and that you have a compelling reason to sell your home in the current market, what you’re about to read is the painful truth, at least as this Realtor sees it. First and foremost, to be a successful seller in this market [...]
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Regardless of your politics, it is evident that an economic stimulus package is all but a done deal. It is widely believed that President Obama will have a bill on his desk to sign on Presidents Day, February 17. One measure in the stimulus package that has direct application to our troubled housing market, is [...]
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I am well aware that this is a real estate blog, and as such readers expect relevant real estate topics. I am however going to depart from that path today to relate a recent personal experience that has had a profound and lasting impact on my life.
I have just returned from the small community [...]
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I’ve just returned from a 10 day trip to the gulf coast of Texas, a trip that I will comment on in a future post. Today’s topic is a quick statistical look at the month of January. According to GAAR there were 1,000 active residential listings in January for Waynesboro, Staunton and Augusta Co. [...]
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One of my charges in this blog is to report on new construction in the valley. The Greater Augusta Association of Realtors (GAAR) does not currently report new construction starts as a separate and discreet category. To cope with that dilemma, I obtained data on new construction permits from the good folks in the Augusta [...]
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Days on Market
These numbers include all residential sales in the GAAR (Greater Augusta Association of Realtors’) service area, but are predominately centered in the Augusta County market:
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