Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Prudential California Realty Newsletter
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
November 2008 Market Stats Tuolumne County
Residential Sales: 33
$0-$199K : Sold 10, Avg. Price $158,600, Med. Price $164,950, Avg. DOM 200
$200-$299K : Sold 12, Avg. Price $230,475, Med. Price $222,900, Avg. DOM
$300-$399K: Sold 6, Avg. Price $329,191, Med. Price $328,074, Avg. DOM 299
$400-$499K: Sold 3, Avg. Price $400,000, Med. Price $403,333, Avg. DOM 140
$500-$599K: Sold 1, Price $545,000, Days on Market 153
$600-$899K: Sold 0
One house sold for $995,000 after 398 DOM. Original asking price was $1,325,000
Land Sales: 1 for $15,000 after 194 DOM
Mobile Home Sales:
2 sold: $75,000 after 339 DOM
$69,900 after 31 DOM
Pending Sales as of 12/3/08: 61
Current Active Listings as of 12/3/08: Residential 486, Average DOM 178
Information courtesy of Linda Olson, Sales Associate, Prudential California Realty, Sonora, CA. Contact: linda@pcr1.com or 209.533.3333.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Saddle Creek Golf Course Honored
Saddle Creek Resort in Copperopolis has been named to Golfweek magazine's list of "America's Best Residential Golf Courses" for 2009, marking the fifth-straight year the Carter Morrish-designed course has appeared in the rankings.
According to a press release, residential ratings are derived directly from Golfweek's annual list of "America's Best Golf Courses" are ranked by more than 350 raters throughout the country, who judge on the basis of 10 evaluation criteria. Rankings are calculated using a stitistical process.
In selecting Saddle Creek, Golfweek once again cited the course's relationship to the overall community plan, the variety, conditioning and playability of the layout, and "how pleasing and interesting the course is as an experience."
The course has been honored numerous times in the past two years by publications such as Fairways and Greens, Golf Digest, GOLF Magazine, and T&L Golf.
Congratulations, Saddle Creek!
Thursday, November 6, 2008
October '08 Tuolumne County Market Stats
October Real Estate Market Statistics, Tulumne County
Residential sold 39 homes
Up to $199k 6
$200-299 20 Median price $251,000 DOM 120
$300-399 7 $355,000 DOM 232
$400-499 4 $423,800 DOM 220
$500-599 1 $525,000 DOM 130
$600-699 1 $686,000 DOM 186
No homes sold above $686,000
Mobiles sold 9 Median Price $61,000 DOM 166
Land sold 6 Median Price $75,000 DOM 149
Active Listings as of 11/5/08
Residential 520 homes with Median price of $348,000 avg DOM 169
Mobiles 91 “ “ 69,900 168
Land 285 167,900 254
October '08 Tuolumne County Real Estate Market Statistics from Tuolumne County Association of Realtros MLS. Information submitted by Linda Olson, Sales Associate. For more information, contact Linda at 209.533.3333, ext. 122.
Residential sold 39 homes
Up to $199k 6
$200-299 20 Median price $251,000 DOM 120
$300-399 7 $355,000 DOM 232
$400-499 4 $423,800 DOM 220
$500-599 1 $525,000 DOM 130
$600-699 1 $686,000 DOM 186
No homes sold above $686,000
Mobiles sold 9 Median Price $61,000 DOM 166
Land sold 6 Median Price $75,000 DOM 149
Active Listings as of 11/5/08
Residential 520 homes with Median price of $348,000 avg DOM 169
Mobiles 91 “ “ 69,900 168
Land 285 167,900 254
October '08 Tuolumne County Real Estate Market Statistics from Tuolumne County Association of Realtros MLS. Information submitted by Linda Olson, Sales Associate. For more information, contact Linda at 209.533.3333, ext. 122.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Congratulations, Cyberhomes!
Congratulations goes out to Cyberhomes.com, for being honored by PC Magazine. As one of our family of partners between Prudential Real Estate and Cyberhomes.com, we applaud your achievement! Read on...
“We are encouraged by this tremendous validation from the technology media,” said Marty Frame, Cyberhomes general manager. “We believe we have created a powerful Internet tool that is now the logical first stop for any home buyer, seller, enthusiast or real estate professional. We look forward to even more exciting news in 2009.”
According to the company, Cyberhomes showcases more than 2.5 million homes for sale licensed by its broker, MLS and franchisor content partners, while also providing consumers with home evaluations and full neighborhood analysis. Boasting more than100 million property, ownership, sales and mortgage records, Cyberhomes also features more than half-a-million virtual tours, and 700,000 foreclosure and pre-foreclosure listings.
For its Top 100 lists, the magazine sent out an open call for nominations and then ranked each website entry on a 10-point scale, averaging the votes for a final score. The top “undiscovered” websites were judged on their content, update frequency, design, innovation and usefulness or entertainment value. Similar sites in each category were compared, but the judges also looked for a broad range of topics and categories.
As Associate Editor Kyle Monson wrote in the article’s pre-publication posting on pcmag.com, “Cyberhomes has all the usual real-estate-site features but adds a ton of nifty functionality to help you find not just the right home, but the right neighborhood, too. Get info and ratings for local schools, mine demographic data to find a neighborhood with (or without) children, or even search for a neighborhood by affluence. You can also track individual home prices and average price trends in the area.”
Cyberhomes first caught the technology magazine’s attention shortly after its 2007 launch. In a December 2007 article, Cyberhomes was included in a “Best of the Internet,” article by Jennifer L. DeLeo. The next designation came in the May 2008 issue, when Cyberhomes was one of eight “Best Real Estate Sites,” offering “all the tools you need to buy or sell a home, like interactive maps, community stats, and powerful search tools.”
The recognition by PC Magazine’s writers and editors echoes the reaction from the public and real estate industry, says the company. In its first year, broad acceptance by consumers looking for real estate information and professionals looking for a better way to engage home buyers resulted in much faster growth than anticipated. As a result, a completely redesigned and enhanced Cyberhomes.com was launched in mid-2008. It now accommodates far more content and functionality, with beautiful graphic continuity and the integration of several new technologies that speed navigation and prepare it to future expansion.
Fidelity National Financial’s Cyberhomes.com Honored by PC Magazine
RISMEDIA, Nov. 4, 2008-Cyberhomes.com, a leading online real estate information site for consumers from Fidelity National Financial, a Fortune 500 provider of products, services and technology solutions to the financial and real estate industries, has been named one of the “Top Web sites of 2008″ by PC Magazine. The current issue of the technology magazine recognizes Cyberhomes in the real estate/money category, tapping the site as the only real estate-related portal in the category.
RISMEDIA, Nov. 4, 2008-Cyberhomes.com, a leading online real estate information site for consumers from Fidelity National Financial, a Fortune 500 provider of products, services and technology solutions to the financial and real estate industries, has been named one of the “Top Web sites of 2008″ by PC Magazine. The current issue of the technology magazine recognizes Cyberhomes in the real estate/money category, tapping the site as the only real estate-related portal in the category.
“We are encouraged by this tremendous validation from the technology media,” said Marty Frame, Cyberhomes general manager. “We believe we have created a powerful Internet tool that is now the logical first stop for any home buyer, seller, enthusiast or real estate professional. We look forward to even more exciting news in 2009.”
According to the company, Cyberhomes showcases more than 2.5 million homes for sale licensed by its broker, MLS and franchisor content partners, while also providing consumers with home evaluations and full neighborhood analysis. Boasting more than100 million property, ownership, sales and mortgage records, Cyberhomes also features more than half-a-million virtual tours, and 700,000 foreclosure and pre-foreclosure listings.
For its Top 100 lists, the magazine sent out an open call for nominations and then ranked each website entry on a 10-point scale, averaging the votes for a final score. The top “undiscovered” websites were judged on their content, update frequency, design, innovation and usefulness or entertainment value. Similar sites in each category were compared, but the judges also looked for a broad range of topics and categories.
As Associate Editor Kyle Monson wrote in the article’s pre-publication posting on pcmag.com, “Cyberhomes has all the usual real-estate-site features but adds a ton of nifty functionality to help you find not just the right home, but the right neighborhood, too. Get info and ratings for local schools, mine demographic data to find a neighborhood with (or without) children, or even search for a neighborhood by affluence. You can also track individual home prices and average price trends in the area.”
Cyberhomes first caught the technology magazine’s attention shortly after its 2007 launch. In a December 2007 article, Cyberhomes was included in a “Best of the Internet,” article by Jennifer L. DeLeo. The next designation came in the May 2008 issue, when Cyberhomes was one of eight “Best Real Estate Sites,” offering “all the tools you need to buy or sell a home, like interactive maps, community stats, and powerful search tools.”
The recognition by PC Magazine’s writers and editors echoes the reaction from the public and real estate industry, says the company. In its first year, broad acceptance by consumers looking for real estate information and professionals looking for a better way to engage home buyers resulted in much faster growth than anticipated. As a result, a completely redesigned and enhanced Cyberhomes.com was launched in mid-2008. It now accommodates far more content and functionality, with beautiful graphic continuity and the integration of several new technologies that speed navigation and prepare it to future expansion.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Home Staging
How to Stage a Home For a Quick Sale and High Sales Price
RISMEDIA, Nov. 1, 2008-Staging is all the rage across America right now. Whether you are selling a home or simply re-decorating, staging has simple principles that most people fail to grasp.
Most people cannot stage their own home. Their sentimental attraction to too many pieces will not allow them to minimize the space. A cute picture of their family together combined with a vase that they got at their wedding, though priceless to them, simply clutters the appearance of the room.
Staging is about clearing a room to show floor space. This means that the furniture needs to be off the wall. When was the last time that you visited a home and found that the couches were off the wall and pictures were on the wall? This is a huge part of staging.
True, staging does not care about groupings of like items. Staging incorporates sizes; the high, medium and low aspect of decorating and uses three or five items in each grouping. Staging does not add a convenience table next to a chair; it minimizes the amount of furniture in a room, not adds. It is more important that the spacing be correct more than thinking of the living function of the room like having a table to put a drinking glass or magazine on. Staging decorates every table for its function as if you are having a party now. Outdoor tables are set for dinner, game tables have games in action and tea sets are ready to go. Fresh flowers are preferred instead of fake flowers, white towels are used instead of colored by preference, beds have way too many pillows and music is soft or jazzy instead of rock music. Also keep the TVs off.
Many times a professional stager will be able to use your furnishings. There is a misnomer that says that stagers bring things to your home and it costs a fortune. This is simply not true.
Staging has played a huge role in getting homes sold quickly and for more money. The goal of staging is to make your home appeal to the broadest range of buyers by eliminating any offensive items or groupings of decorations that would detract a buyer’s attention. You want the buyer instead to be focused on the house and its elements that have attracted them to it.
Staging is a must for serious sellers. Don’t be fooled that you can do it yourself. Hire a professional.
RISMEDIA, Nov. 1, 2008-Staging is all the rage across America right now. Whether you are selling a home or simply re-decorating, staging has simple principles that most people fail to grasp.
Most people cannot stage their own home. Their sentimental attraction to too many pieces will not allow them to minimize the space. A cute picture of their family together combined with a vase that they got at their wedding, though priceless to them, simply clutters the appearance of the room.
Staging is about clearing a room to show floor space. This means that the furniture needs to be off the wall. When was the last time that you visited a home and found that the couches were off the wall and pictures were on the wall? This is a huge part of staging.
True, staging does not care about groupings of like items. Staging incorporates sizes; the high, medium and low aspect of decorating and uses three or five items in each grouping. Staging does not add a convenience table next to a chair; it minimizes the amount of furniture in a room, not adds. It is more important that the spacing be correct more than thinking of the living function of the room like having a table to put a drinking glass or magazine on. Staging decorates every table for its function as if you are having a party now. Outdoor tables are set for dinner, game tables have games in action and tea sets are ready to go. Fresh flowers are preferred instead of fake flowers, white towels are used instead of colored by preference, beds have way too many pillows and music is soft or jazzy instead of rock music. Also keep the TVs off.
Many times a professional stager will be able to use your furnishings. There is a misnomer that says that stagers bring things to your home and it costs a fortune. This is simply not true.
Staging has played a huge role in getting homes sold quickly and for more money. The goal of staging is to make your home appeal to the broadest range of buyers by eliminating any offensive items or groupings of decorations that would detract a buyer’s attention. You want the buyer instead to be focused on the house and its elements that have attracted them to it.
Staging is a must for serious sellers. Don’t be fooled that you can do it yourself. Hire a professional.
For more information, and help with staging and selling your home, contact us at 209.352.8289, Prudential California Realty
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Tuolumne County Market Stats
As Reported by the Tuolumne County Association of Realtors:
2008, 3rd Quarter
Homes Sold 111
Median Price $305,000
Total $ Sold $36,137,460
2007 3rd Quarter
Homes Sold 135
Median Price $340,000
Total $ Sold $49,902,204
2008 YTD
Homes Sold 314 (54 REO, 13 Short Sale)
Median Price $299,000
(REO $239,070, Short Sale $255,000, Privately Owned $317,000)
Total $ Sold $101,918,612
2007 YTD
Homes Sold 398
Median Price $333,500
Total $ Sold $147,711,054
2008, 3rd Quarter
Homes Sold 111
Median Price $305,000
Total $ Sold $36,137,460
2007 3rd Quarter
Homes Sold 135
Median Price $340,000
Total $ Sold $49,902,204
2008 YTD
Homes Sold 314 (54 REO, 13 Short Sale)
Median Price $299,000
(REO $239,070, Short Sale $255,000, Privately Owned $317,000)
Total $ Sold $101,918,612
2007 YTD
Homes Sold 398
Median Price $333,500
Total $ Sold $147,711,054
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