Volusia County Sales Statistics for September 2008

Well, here we are almost at the end of the the fourth quarter of 2008.  Below is a chart showing the sales figures of residentials homes as well as condominiums for Volusia County Sales.  The chart is a snapshot of the Number of Homes Sold for August and September.  Also, showing the Median Sale Price of those two months and of 2007 and 2008.  The Daytona Beach Area Association of REALTORS reports the total sales for the were 2,543 as of 11/12/2008.

Realist’s most recent recording date for this county is 11/12/2008

Single Family Residence
Time Period	Number of Sales	Median Sale Price
Sep 2008	447	$160,000
Sep 2007	449	$178,000
Aug 2008	361	$168,000
Aug 2007	602	$197,368
2008 YTD	4,220	$167,024
2007	6,811	$190,000

Condominium
Time Period	Number of Sales	Median Sale Price
Sep 2008	82	$225,000
Sep 2007	154	$403,575
Aug 2008	90	$241,332
Aug 2007	169	$330,000
2008 YTD	997	$221,900
2007	1,787	$290,020

Theresa Geyer, CRS, GRI Real Estate Professional for Volusia and Flagler Counties CENTURY 21 Sundance Realty 1439 N. US Hwy 1, A-6 Ormond Beach, Florida, 32174 US	Mobile: 386-235-8028 Fax: 386-336-9007 mail@theresageyer.com http://www.buyingdaytonabeach.com/
Ormond Beach, Florida Real Estate Professional
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Do you have GREAT training right under your nose?

I consider myself to be very fortunate to have a very skilled real estate trainer at my finger tips.  Midori Miller is Daytona Beach, Florida’s top real estate trainer and she works for my company CENTURY21 Sundance Realty. 

We all have the opportunity to learn and some of us take advantage of it and some of us feel we are to busy.  Well, when Midori came to our office almost 4 years I was very busy, the top dog of our company for many years in a row and had no time for one on one training.  I am an REALTOR who prides herself in continued education and I did not take advantage of this one on one training until recently.

I can honestly say, “Thanks to Midori I am in front of the eight ball with Web 2.0″.  Yes, for the last two years Midori has been very politely tell me to blog, blog and do more blogging.  Well I haven’t quite mastered that but I can say that I’am putting forth a honest effort. 

Month after month she would give me projects to do such as joining social networks such as Active Rain, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc..  At first I felt like a fish out of water and even to this day sometimes I feel like she is speaking to me in a foreign language.

  For the last two days I have been in a REO certification class with Paradigm Default System.  The content of the course was everything I already knew but now I have credibility to my knowledge.  The last part of the class was on Web 2.0. Let me tell you, I knew everything they were teaching the class and I owe all that to Midori, because she helped me become knowledgeable in an area that I didn’t think I really understood. 

So I guess the message here is take advantage of the training that might be right under your nose and don’t take it for granted.  As we all know it doesn’t always last not everything is forever.

Affordable Housing…Is it?

I found this article in my email this morning from DSNews and thought I should share it.  There really is someone working for you the current home owner, and for our future home owners.

TARP Inspector Scrutinizes Federal Housing Program

10/29/2009 By: Carrie Bay

Neil Barofsky, Congress’ special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), makes no bones about his dissatisfaction and frustration with the Treasury’s management of the $700 billion purse.

Barofsky said the Treasury Department has misled the public and questioned the fairness of its payouts to the nation’s biggest banks in a report issued earlier this month.

In his most recent dissertation, Barofsky threatened to subpoena documents from the Treasury and White House to get to the bottom of exactly how TARP funds are being used.

He also offered up a dissection of the administration’s Making Home Affordable (MHA) program, prefaced with a rebuke that the Treasury has not adopted previous recommendations his office has made for the program.

Barofsky zeroed in on three specific suggestions that he says would “answer some of the criticisms of the program,” which has been allotted $50 billion of TARP funds.

First, the inspector general says, Treasury should keep track of everyone who participates in a mortgage modification transaction and keep the information in a central database.

“Treasury has refused to adopt this significant anti-fraud measure designed to detect insiders who are committing large-scale fraud,” Barofsky complained. “This represents a material deficiency in the MHA anti-fraud regime.”

Secondly, as another measure to prevent fraud, he recommends that servicers be required to compare the income reported by borrowers’ on the mortgage modification application with the income they claimed when they applied for the original mortgage.

And third, Barofsky wants the Treasury to defer paying mortgage servicers the $1,000 bonus incentives for carrying out the federal modification until after homeowners have made a minimum number of payments following the three-month trial period.

All in all, Barofsky says he’s made 41 recommendations to the administration that would improve TARP and all its sub-programs, of which only 18 have been executed and seven have been partially implemented.

Flagler County Sales Statistics For September 2008

Well, here we are almost at the end of the the fourth quarter of 2008. Below is a chart showing the sales figures of residentials homes as well as condominiums for Flagler County Sales. The chart is a snapshot of the Number of Homes Sold for August and September. Also, showing the Median Sale Price of those two months and of 2007 and 2008. The Daytona Beach Area Association of REALTORS – Realist reports the total sales for the were 1,362 as of 11/17/2008.

 

Sales Statistics for FLAGLER County FL

Realist’s most recent recording date for this county is 11/17/2008

Single Family Residence
Time Period	Number of Sales	Median Sale Price
Oct 2008	124	$162,508
Oct 2007	127	$200,000
Sep 2008	155	$155,500
Sep 2007	107	$198,000
2008 YTD	1,362	$165,000
2007	1,921	$213,300

Condominium
Time Period	Number of Sales	Median Sale Price
Oct 2008	21	$340,000
Oct 2007	23	$225,000
Sep 2008	13	$396,000
Sep 2007	25	$330,000
2008 YTD	181	$400,000
2007	538	$452,400

 

Theresa Geyer, CRS, GRI Real Estate Professional for Volusia and Flagler Counties CENTURY 21 Sundance Realty 1439 N. US Hwy 1, A-6 Ormond Beach, Florida, 32174 US	Work: 386-336-9008 Mobile: 386-235-8028 Fax: 386-336-9007 mail@theresageyer.com http://www.buyingdaytonabeach.com/
Daytona Beach Florida,Ormond Beach, Florida Real Estate Professional
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Hello Fellow Bloggers!

Hello to all!

I would like to say I am new to blogging and actually I am.  Well, what I mean is that I was introduced to blogging by a mentor of mine Midori Miller almost 2 years ago.  I love to read the blogs but have been scared to death to write a blog.  Why? Because when I was first approached about blogging all I can remember is, “BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WRITE IT’S PERMANENT”.  Therefore, this has become my fear of blogging.  I am very slowly getting over that fear as you can see because I have established this WordPress blog account. 

So, for all those critics out there I ask that you be gentle when giving your criticism.  Don’t get me wrong I welcome it but just try not to be so brutal.  As I write this I promise to post more blogs about my family, friends, real estate, Ormond Beach, Florida, the Worlds Most Famous Beach Daytona Beach and CENTURY21 Sundance Realty also my favorite community Daytona Beach LPGA.  

 

Theresa Geyer