2017 Real Estate Wrap Up

With a brand new grandson, a rapidly growing business, and a couple of funerals in our family, this has been a really busy time in our lives. With all of this going on, this blog has been badly neglected. In fact, it has never been this long between posts. Although we are still busy, I do enjoy writing these posts and I hope that readers get something from them.

In 2017, our Smoky Mountain real estate market had ups and downs but the overall result was a net gain of 3% over the very strong year of 2016. Here is the wrap-up for 2016:
The fine print on the last data line of the chart is the average sale price for each year. The most remarkable fact from 2017 in my opinion is that average sales price of $220,442, a whopping 14% increase in the average sale price over 2016's solid average price of $198,891 and almost 50% over the average sales price of just 5 years ago. If you are interested in selling Sevier County real estate, now is a great time!

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