If this is going to be a year of upsets, the rules for when Cherokee and Cobb County listings are best initiated might be primed to fly out the window. There’s no guarantee that 2017’s Cherokee and Cobb County listing performance will bend the rules, but if the National Association of Realtor’s® news site is [...]
Many of us who call Cherokee or Cobb County home find that the beginning of the new year serves as a useful benchmark. This is when it’s easiest to collect the bygone year’s household bills and receipts and stash them in the drawer, box, or envelopes marked “2016” to be revisited at tax time. Once [...]
When you see any title here containing the words “Cherokee and Cobb County Real Estate Investment,” you won’t be terribly surprised if the gist turns out to be what a good idea! When you’ve had the experience of seeing clients succeed with many real estate investment projects, it’s an unavoidable conclusion. Unfortunately, also pretty yawn-worthy. [...]
If you put your mind to it, you can come up with excuses for why it makes sense to do just about anything. For instance, if it’s Sunday and you really should go shopping to stock the fridge for the week ahead, but you’re all settled in to watch TV, you can reason that the [...]
This is our December 2016 Real Estate Market Report for Woodstock, Georgia. Continuing last month's trend, the number of new listings and closed sales declined by 12.2% and 10.6% respectively. A reduction in the number of closed sales generally represents fewer buyers in the market, but as long ask there continues to also be fewer and [...]
This is our December 2016 Real Estate Market Report for Kennesaw, Georgia. Continuing the pattern of last month's decline in new listings, December in Kennesaw had 22.4% less listings; however, the downward trend in closed sales and sold price was broken. Closed sales are up 9.3%, and median sold price is up 12.8%. Although the number [...]
This is our December 2016 Real Estate Market Report for Acworth, Georgia. As the busiest month of the holiday season, December is always an odd month in most industries, and real estate is no exception. Despite November's increase in sales prices, December sees those drop by 3.7%; not completely undoing November's increase, but close. The number of new [...]
If you weren’t among those who were surprised by the election outcome, you were among very few. Opinion leaders in every corner of the media are still scrambling to explain why their prognostications had been so wide of the mark. When your job is to help people understand the fine points of current events, it’s [...]
A number of “Smart House” products made headway in 2016, so before the crystal ball gets hauled up over Times Square, this is an appropriate moment to review which ones promised relevant real estate applications. Anyone who will be house hunting or selling in Cherokee and Cobb County anytime soon might want to become [...]
When, as the holiday lyrics have it, “the weather outside is frightful,” that makes it a good time to start planning the coming year’s home improvement projects. If you wait for ideal weather conditions to begin laying out your plans, you’re likely to wind up well behind schedule before you even start. If the [...]
The holiday season surely makes for a neat package: wrapping up the whole year in a sort of satisfying finale. Whether it’s your Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or any other holiday you can think of, for most Cherokee and Cobb County residents, the last weeks of December make up a sort of endpoint/beginning point for [...]
This is our November 2016 Real Estate Market Report for Kennesaw, Georgia. As the holidays approach, the real estate market in Kennesaw is slowing down a bit. The number of new listings and closed sales decreased by 26% and 16.9% respectively, which is common for the holiday season due to there being fewer sellers and buyers in [...]
This is our November 2016 Real Estate Market Report for Woodstock, Georgia. As expected nearing the holidays, the number of new listings and closed sales declined by 31.5% and 6% respectively. This is due partially to the fact that there are fewer buyers and sellers in the market during the holiday months, but the number [...]
This is our November 2016 Real Estate Market Report for Acworth, Georgia. The biggest news in Acworth's real estate market report for November is that median sold prices appear to be rebounding; they're up 5.5% from the previous month, and up 10.3% above median sold prices from November of last year. However, the number of closed sales decreased [...]
If you have much experience with selling your house, you probably have your own ideas about what has seemed to be the preparations that made the most difference with the least trouble and expense. Here are three you might not have used before: Closets – every now and then you’ll see clutter-clearing advice that emphasizes [...]
For prospective home buyers who have been eyeing the Cobb and Cherokee County listings without any particular sense of urgency, this month’s mortgage interest rate news could have added an element of angst. In the up-again/down-again world of consumer finance, even the threat of higher mortgage interest rates acts as a nudge in favor of [...]
This is our October 2016 Real Estate Market Report for Woodstock, Georgia. Even though the median sold price is up just slightly (0.6%) and the number of currently active listings is at a 5-year low (396), Woodstock may be leaning towards being a buyer's market. That possibility is due to a 5.9% increase in new listings [...]
This is our October 2016 Real Estate Market Report for Kennesaw, Georgia. Kennesaw's real estate market continues to be strong, even heading into the holiday season. Similar to last month's report, the average sold-to-list price ratio is at 97%, a 5-year high, while the median number of days to contract is 26, a 5-year low. Additionally, [...]
This is our October 2016 Real Estate Market Report for Acworth, Georgia. In terms of the number of closings and the median sold price, Acworth is continuing its downward slope for the third consecutive month. Despite that, the median sold price is still 3.8% higher than it was in October of 2015, which continues to be [...]
Diana Olick is a well-known industry writer. Anyone with an interest in Cobb and Cherokee County real estate can usually find something of value when she comes up with a new entry in her CNBC column (the one with the pun-worthy title, “Realty Check”). This month she commented on the rising housing market across the [...]
House hunters are sometimes compared with treasure hunters—and it can certainly feel like that when you find a Cherokee or Cobb County home that’s a perfect fit. The other day, I read a writer who compared house hunting with beachcombing. That might pass muster at first—but when you think it over, it really doesn’t quite [...]
HGTV has a weekly program called “Income Property” that Cherokee and Cobb County investors may find interesting from time to time. The host, Scott McGillivray—himself an income property investor—offers tips and advice on the subject. His insights are solid. They may not be earth-shaking, but it doesn’t hurt that, in addition to being an investor, [...]
It just could be that the absolute best Halloween gift has been identified. It’s one that every Cherokee and Cobb County resident would certainly be surprised to receive. Now, in case you are asking yourself who gives gifts at Halloween (other than the candy we hand out to the pint-sized ghosts and goblins), I agree [...]
This is our September 2016 Real Estate Market Report for Woodstock, Georgia. With most statistics taking quite a dive since last month's report, the September report for Woodstock might seem to indicate that the market is slowing; but the overall 12-month trends paint a different picture. The number of new listings and closed sales are down 11.7% and [...]
This is our September 2016 Real Estate Market Report for Kennesaw, Georgia. Kennesaw home sellers will be thrilled to see this month's real estate report! The average sold-to-list-price ratio is at a 5-year high of 102%, meaning Kennesaw sellers sold their homes for 102% of their asking price, on average. More good news for sellers is [...]
