What?
Yeah, I know. I read this article from the Cap Times, Jeff Richgels and was left more confused. Here is part of the article,
Such is life in a housing market gone stagnant: After a long boom that peaked in 2005, sales of homes and condominiums in Dane County fell 10.4 percent in 2006 and another [...]
Want to know if you should buy a home or condo in this Madison Real Estate market
We are inspired by NBC going green last week, so The Gardyn will go green this week. We might recycle some posts and all our font will be green.
Recycled Post from Is now a good time to buy real estate?
That depends. That question [...]
Info on Dane County Real Estate Market and Housing trends for the past 8 years.
This is looking at the first 3 quarters of the year for the last 8 years of the Dane County real estate market.
Keep this in mind when you are looking at the numbers. I hear from home sellers and even Realtor’s [...]
Quick.
Name a memorable real estate TV ad. Got it.
Was it clever? Was it funny? Did it convey emotion?
Oh. You can’t even remember one. That’s because real estate TV ad’s suck almost as much as real estate logos. I don’t know if executives at the top just refuse to hire good firms to help with promotion [...]
I think Realtor cliche’s are funny. I have been as guilty as anyone in using them, but I am going to strive to eliminate them from my marketing.
What is a Realtor cliche? I wrote a post awhile back and had some great comments added to some Realtor cliches, but in general, it’s a line that [...]
This post includes real estate market stats and info for Madison West, Madison East, Cottage Grove, Monona, Middleton, Waunakee, Sun Prairie, Fitchburg, Verona, Stoughton, McFarland and general Dane County.
“I Want The Truth”
“You Can’t Handle The Truth!”
I already shared the stats about the overall Dane County Real Estate market.
Madison East Real Estate (Single Family)
Absorption Rate: [...]
I mentioned in a blog post early this week that I would be sharing what Madison area communities are in a Seller’s market, Buyer’s market or Balanced market.
On the air on Wednesday I gave the run down of most of those markets. We still have some numbers to pull and will be posting them soon [...]
I said earlier,
“Days on Market has nothing to do with a Buyer’s Market or Seller’s Market.”
It doesn’t? Not really.
What you can see in the Dane County Days On Market chart below is that single family days on market are fairly reasonable, a little over two months. But there are always two markets going on in a [...]
It’s a Buyer’s Market. Anyone notice?
In a buyer’s market, home lookers tend to think because they have lots of choices that they also have lots of time.
There are actually two different markets going on during a Buyer’s Market.
The market for good properties
The good properties are priced right, offer great terms, in excellent condition and staged well. These [...]
Madison Wisconsin Real Estate Trends For The Month Of July The Last Five Years
Taking a look at the month July Real Estate Trends since 2003. Looking at New Listings, New Sales and Total Active Listings at the end of the month.
*This information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Information is sourced from the South Central Wisconsin [...]
If you are driving around the UW-Madison Campus area right now, you will see that students are moving in. Moving into their dorms and moving into their housing. The UW Madison campus is buzzing again.
Real Estate guru, Barbara Corcoran gives advice on how to,
“Make a profit and get a surprise on graduation day.”
[...]
Open House In Verona
Edyn Real Estate will be holding an open house on a Verona condo on Sunday from 1:00-4:00 pm. The condo is located at 427 Cross Country Rd. Verona, WI.
Why would we hold an open house after writing such articles as “Wasting Time At Open Houses”?
For the most part, we believe at Edyn [...]
When we looked at the Madison Real Estate Market for June we were surprised to see Days On Market had dropped to 62 for single family homes. It had been awhile since I had seen the number that low. That caused me to do some research and go back a full year and to look [...]
Madison Real Estate Market Watch
Comparing the month of June data for the last three years in the Dane County Real Estate market.
The average sales price YTD in June of ‘07 was $244,013. In June of ‘06 it was $245,413. Does that mean home prices are starting to fall?
The median home price is $1000 above last year [...]
Madison Real Estate News Week In Review
We are finally starting to get some interest in FSBO’s in the Madison area to do our FSBO Friday idea. It’s surprising that Madison FSBO’s are so shy and not wanting to get word out to blog readers that their home is for sale. I think after we get [...]
Madison Real Estate News Week In Review
The power of blogs. Only one story/link this week from a published news source. The WSJ. The rest all came from blogs. The info, the speed of info, the inside and in-depth look at the things happening around our lives is the reason that I love blogs and have [...]
Comparing the month of May data for the last three years in the Dane County real estate market.
The average sales price in May of ‘07 was $242,675. In May of ‘06 it was $236,564. Does that mean home prices are still going up?
Year to date the average sales price is down about $3,000 in comparision [...]
Madison Real Estate News Week In Review
Things are starting to come together around The Gardyn. We still have some seeding, planting, and weeding to do, but we are almost ready to fully launch. Besides the NY Times article about real estate in our fine city here is the news that may or may not have anything to do [...]
Madison Real Estate News Week In Review
Not much exciting for real estate news in Madison this week. I have had a few people ask me why I haven’t written about Sundance 608 yet. All of Madison and the local blogos is buzzing about it. Don’t feel I need to be, yet another blogger that writes about it. There’s plenty [...]
Looks like the you want to be on the Madison east side if you are selling a home and the Madison west side if you are selling a condo right now.
Single family homes in Dane County are selling on average in 86 days and for 97.05% of list price.
Condos in Dane County are selling on [...]
As we mentioned yesterday in Dane County Condo Sales Skins Its Knee,
If you have a condo that you need to put up for sale soon, make sure that you are pricing ahead of everyone in your development and everyone in your area. If you need to sell, make sure you are the next one to sell.
We [...]
Dane County Condo sales had an incredible run for awhile during the hot market time.
Condo’s in Dane County actually were appreciating at a higher rate than single family homes! The Dane County market was hot. The condo market was hot.
The housing market, not so hot right now. Not as cold as Lake Monona currently is, [...]
