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 ...

Home sales rose 46% in February and pending sales increased almost 7% over January on the Eastern Shore of the Mobile, Alabama, Metro area.Ok, so January is rarely a great month in real estate in Spanish Fort, Daphne and Fairhope. But an increase from 43 sales in January to 63 in February (even with the distractions of Mardi Gras and the Super ...

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  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 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 ...

Want some good news? The number of homes sold on the Eastern Shore increased 24 percent in the 2nd quarter compared with the 1st quarter. Priced right for today’s market, homes will sell. Looking at month-by-month sales, it seems that we are bumping along what I hope is the bottom. Between Spanish Fort and Point Clear, 207 homes sold this ...

June home sales dipped slightly but pending sales and the list-to-sale percentage show that the market may be stabilizing. Seventy-three homes sold in June on the Eastern Shore of the Mobile Metro area, down from the 77 sales in May in the area encompassing Spanish Fort, Daphne and Fairhope/Point Clear. Pending sales increased from 136 in the ...

May home sales increased 22 percent over April on the Eastern Shore of the Mobile Metro area.This typical seasonal bump of 77 homes sold was still some 15 percent lower than sales in May 2008 when 91 houses closed. However, it was better than April’s 53 sales in Spanish Fort, Daphne/Lake Forest and Fairhope/Point Clear.Pending sales have ...