Gatlinburg Real Estate Blog

The good news is that my family enjoyed a much needed vacation and for the first time in my life we took a consecutive full two weeks off. The bad news is that I totally forgot about posting to this blog and didn't notice my error until now because we've been really busy since my return to work on Monday (also good news!!). June was indeed an excellent month: Four consecutive months of solid gains above pretty good numbers last year puts us 80 units ahead of 2014's strong results. July 2014 will be a very difficult month to surpass as it was the single best month in a good year but 2015 as a whole seems pretty solidly ahead of our pace last year which was the best since 2007. My hope is that we will surpass 2007 this year and that hasn't happened since the go-go market we had in 2005-2006. Gatlinburg area real estate is looking up indeed!!!

The good news is that my family enjoyed a much needed vacation and for the first time in my life we took a consecutive full two weeks off. The bad news is that I totally forgot about posting to this blog and didn't notice my error until now because we've been really busy since my return to work on Monday (also good news!!). June was indeed an excellent month: Four consecutive months of solid gains above pretty good numbers last year puts us 80 units ahead of 2014's strong results. July 2014 will be a very difficult month to surpass as it was the single best month in a good year but 2015 as a whole seems pretty solidly ahead of our pace last year which was the best since 2007. My hope is that we will surpass 2007 this year and that hasn't happened since the go-go market we had in 2005-2006. Gatlinburg area real estate is looking up indeed!!!

Since we are now nearly to the end of April, it is certainly time to close the books on March 2011 Smoky Mountain residential sales!   The month did pump up a little better than I expected and our MLS now reports 130 homes sold by members of our Great Smoky Mountain Association of Realtors during March.  My quick take on this is that we are still comparing to last year's numbers that were significantly impacted positively by the government's first time home buyer tax credit which certainly served to encourage some buyers to jump into the market.  Although we were down compared to March 2010, we did have (as expected) a significantly better month than January or February was.  This isn't a surprise at all as January and February are almost always slow months for our area (and most of the U.S. real estate market).  Here's a link to the PDF  document of the same spreadsheet that we have created. With one third of the year nearly complete, I think we can assume...

Since we are now nearly to the end of April, it is certainly time to close the books on March 2011 Smoky Mountain residential sales!   The month did pump up a little better than I expected and our MLS now reports 130 homes sold by members of our Great Smoky Mountain Association of Realtors during March.  My quick take on this is that we are still comparing to last year's numbers that were significantly impacted positively by the government's first time home buyer tax credit which certainly served to encourage some buyers to jump into the market.  Although we were down compared to March 2010, we did have (as expected) a significantly better month than January or February was.  This isn't a surprise at all as January and February are almost always slow months for our area (and most of the U.S. real estate market).  Here's a link to the PDF  document of the same spreadsheet that we have created. With one third of the year nearly complete, I think we can assum...

Just a couple of minutes to post this report, more details to follow.  Remember, this is only the VERY preliminary number and there will certainly be more reported over the next several days.  Although we will certainly add enough sales to beat January 2009 & 2010's values I was hoping for a better performance from our Gatlinburg area real estate market...

Just a couple of minutes to post this report, more details to follow.  Remember, this is only the VERY preliminary number and there will certainly be more reported over the next several days.  Although we will certainly add enough sales to beat January 2009 & 2010's values I was hoping for a better performance from our Gatlinburg area real estate market...

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