Our team just got word from our Visual Tour company that collectively, over the many years that we’ve created visual tours for our listings, we just passed over the 250,000 mark of views! Here is our current visual tour inventory.
Here are the final tallies of the 21012 sales on various lakes and rivers in the Flathead Valley area. Note Flathead Lake, Bitterroot Lake, Flathead River and Swan River were where buyers found most of their waterfront dreams fulfilled in 2012! Residential Sales Land Sales Flathead Lake (breakdown of 49 homes and 25 condos) 74 (continued…)
Here is a recap of the 2012 real estate market taken from the NW Montana MLS database. This covers a huge area of NW Montana. Based on statistics provided in the recent 2012 Market Trends Update by local appraiser, Jim Kelley, we are seeing some positive shifts in our market. Some points of interest: Residential (continued…)
January – December 2012 showed final sales on Flathead Lake to be 49 homes sold and 13 vacant land properties sold. By comparison 30 homes and 3 vacant land lots sold in 2011. At the end of the year there were still 71 waterfront homes available for sale, with only 1 of these being “bank owned”. (continued…)
One of the great things about computers is the statistics they can generate after a few keystrokes. Google Analytics, a software that helps business track web usage, is a tool we utilize to see the activity on our website, including where the traffic is coming from. Oftentimes local sellers are wondering what the Canadian impact (continued…)
Read this great analysis of the housing market in a letter written by RE/MAX founder Dave Liniger which was written to both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. The letter was discussed in an article by DS News.
A recent poll shows that the upcoming presidential election is putting the Pause button on a selection of potential buyers. An article on the website Real Estate Economy Watch: “The Election is Tanking Home Sales“, recently found that as many as 25% of potential buyers are holding off until after the elections to see who (continued…)
When you reach the bottom of the market there is a period of leveling off – it just doesn’t take off again like a rocket. But there are some signs to look for that’ll help signal where we are in that leveling. Based on statistics provided in the recent September 2012 Market Trends Update by (continued…)
There is reason for optimism in the market for sellers on Flathead Lake whose homes are valued under the 1 Million dollar mark. The following statistical analysis also might strike some motivation for buyers who have been on the fence to get a Flathead Lake home purchased because at the current rate of sales in (continued…)
I just ran across a newsletter from a local lender that quoted research done by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) in 2012. It said that “Renters typically have a net worth of $4,000, while owners on average are worth about $160,000”. I’ve always believed that owning a home is like having a savings account (continued…)
Real estate appraiser, Jim Kelley, has compiled the January – July 2012 real estate market trends update. Highlights of the statistics show: The number of residences sold is up from same time last year. 553 in 2011, 733 in 2012 – a 32.5% increase. However, the median price of homes sold dropped 4.8% from $190,100 (continued…)
Watching the market of Flathead Lake is recently like watching a Yo-Yo! The number of sales have gone up and down since the market took its downward turn toward the end of 2006. Most of us didn’t know there was something strange going on until sometime in 2008 when sales were just not that robust (continued…)
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