Market Analysis

Homes Data Promising

May 24, 2010 • 0 comments

The National Association of Homebuilders reported this week that their “Housing Market Index”, a survey among its members to quantify builder sentiment about the housing market, rose three points in …

by Cebo Campbell

Rural Development – Good News/ Bad News

May 17, 2010 • 0 comments

As a flood of first-time homebuyers rushed to take advantage of the $8,000 tax credit the Rural Development program has been strained to the limit with a year’s allocation of …

by Cebo Campbell

The Skinny on Appraisals in Today’s Market

March 1, 2010 • 2 comments

How exciting you have an offer on your house and on to close you go!!! But we have one more hurdle to master…. the big appraisal question. Will it appraise …

by Cebo Campbell

2009 Year End Real Estate Market Summary and Analysis

January 7, 2010 • 7 comments

An interesting thing about a prolonged down market, after three years everybody gets bored.  Real estate agents have quit trying to convince the public that the bottom has been reached …

by Sam Portman

Foreclosures and Short Sales are Major Restraints for Price Stability

November 16, 2009 • 0 comments

The sale statistics from the 70 buildings in the www.condosaletrends.com database indicate some encouraging news for the Panama City Beach condo market.  The number of sales from July through October …

by Sam Portman

Home Prices Still Rising

October 7, 2009 • 2 comments

Mortgage rates remain at near eight month lows as strong demand in the bond market drove the yield on the ten year Treasury note below 3.20% before rising slightly to …

by Hunter Palmer

Mixed Signals in Housing Data

September 30, 2009 • 0 comments

Another mixed bag of housing data was released over the past week starting with last Thursday’s report from the National Association of Realtors that showed an unexpectedly drop in existing …

by Hunter Palmer

August 2009 Panama City Beach Condo Market Update

September 17, 2009 • 8 comments

During the last 12 months we have seen a meltdown of the financial markets, the stock market tanked, and the housing market continued a steep decline.  The Feds invested a …

by Sam Portman

STOP Buying Real Estate

June 1, 2009 • 3 comments

Velocity sales in real estate is picking up and has had an increasing trend over the last several months; 8 months statewide, to be exact.  Prices are still coming down, …

by Jason Koertge

Hot Dog Story – Do What You Do and Change for No One

March 23, 2009 • 4 comments

Okay, I know there is so much talk about all the awful things that people see happening in our world. Lucky for me I DO NOT  buy into that.  There …

by Karen Smith