Janet English Your Baldwin County Realtor

    Gosh, it's been grim.   But I'm here to tell you that this month - April 2010 - feels like it might as well be 2005, considering the volume of house sales going on.   Sure, the homebuyer tax credit expires April 30. Sure, some people moved up their time frames to capture as much as $8,000 in tax ...

Pending sales have soared as the expiration of the home buyer tax credit approaches.By April 8, 173 homes on the Eastern Shore of the Mobile, Alabama Metro area had gone under contract, up from 125 under contract during the first week in March, 2010. Of these, 43 are new construction and 30 are short sales or foreclosures.The First-Time Homebuyer ...

Pending home sales are showing signs of better days ahead for the real estate market on the Eastern Shore of the Mobile, Alabama, Metro area.January sales were typically weak, at 43 homes sold in Spanish Fort, Daphne and Fairhope, compared with 56 in December 2009. Still, last month’s sales were a slight improvement over January 2009 when ...

  Statistics can be manipulated. But the evidence shows a 17.5% decline in house values on the Eastern Shore in 2009. Coupled with our deceptive and behind-the-rest-of-the-nation 1% decline in 2008, housing prices are almost back to pre-Hurricane Ivan levels of 2003-04.            The ...

            Home sales on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay proved to be weak in December, as sales declined to 56 compared to 65 in November.            A poll of Realtors by the National Association of Realtors predicted a lull during the ...

Home sales improved slightly in November, with 65 properties sold compared with 59 in October.New construction (most selling between $180,000 and $200,000) accounted for 37% of all the sales on the Eastern Shore of the Mobile, Alabama, metro area.For the price-per-square-foot fans, the average in new construction sales was $98.76 a square foot; ...

October, 2009 home sales for the Eastern Shore of MobileThe upcoming expiration of the first-time homebuyer tax credit likely lead to a reduction in home sales in October on the Eastern Shore of the Mobile, Alabama, metro area.Home sales fell from 87 in September to 59 in October in Spanish Fort, Daphne and Fairhope. The first-time homebuyer tax ...

Home sales in the Eastern Shore of the Mobile, Alabama, metro area improved ever so slightly in September, with 87 sales, compared to 82 sales in July.Pending sales dropped from 158 during the first week of September to 128 during the first week of October in Spanish Fort, Daphne and Fairhope/Point Clear.  In typical years – and this is ...

A year ago, home sales on the Eastern Shore fell off a cliff. Then they tumbled even further, apparently hitting bottom in the early spring.But that month – August 2008 – showed a breath-taking 40 percent decline in the number of houses sold between Spanish Fort and Point Clear on the Eastern Shore the Mobile Metro area. To ...

Home sales statistics on the Eastern Shore of the Mobile Metro area continue to show signs of a stabilizing market, though Realtors generally believe home prices continue to fall.Both home sales and pending sales in Spanish Fort, Daphne and Fairhope/Point Clear showed slight increases over June, 2009. Yet, 20 percent of home sellers reduced prices ...