Gatlinburg Real Estate Blog

They just keep trickling in: We are still nearly 100 units above the pace from a year ago on a year to date basis. Unless things really slow down we should beat 2014 which was significantly better than any year since 2007. Heck, we might even match the lofty total from the bubble year of 2007!!

They just keep trickling in: We are still nearly 100 units above the pace from a year ago on a year to date basis. Unless things really slow down we should beat 2014 which was significantly better than any year since 2007. Heck, we might even match the lofty total from the bubble year of 2007!!

Like a friendly hotel that has a truly great location and a wonderful staff, but needs a little sprucing up, I recently had to admit that our GatlinburgHomes.com website, though it continued to work very well, finally needed an upgrade. When it was first created well over 10 years ago, it was certainly the state of the art, but time and a reluctance on my part to "fix something that wasn't broken" gradually took their toll. Like the great but now aging hotel property example cited above, newer websites offering useful functions to viewers continually closed the gap until we were actually trailing some of our competitors in terms of what we were offering online. This is something that I simply couldn't abide any longer... Beginning last week, our real estate search functions were upgraded dramatically and more improvements are coming soon. You can now view ALL of the photos that are available for every listing in our Great Smoky Mountains Association of Realtors MLS ...

Like a friendly hotel that has a truly great location and a wonderful staff, but needs a little sprucing up, I recently had to admit that our GatlinburgHomes.com website, though it continued to work very well, finally needed an upgrade. When it was first created well over 10 years ago, it was certainly the state of the art, but time and a reluctance on my part to "fix something that wasn't broken" gradually took their toll. Like the great but now aging hotel property example cited above, newer websites offering useful functions to viewers continually closed the gap until we were actually trailing some of our competitors in terms of what we were offering online. This is something that I simply couldn't abide any longer... Beginning last week, our real estate search functions were upgraded dramatically and more improvements are coming soon. You can now view ALL of the photos that are available for every listing in our Great Smoky Mountains Association of Realtors ML...

Although our Smoky Mountain real estate market showed great volume in November, prices haven't yet risen. In fact, in November, we actually had the lowest average sales price in recent memory for our Gatlinburg area according to our Great Smoky Mountain Association of Realtors MLS database. The new low wasn't dramatic, as it was just below the average sales price that we saw in April of 2011. If December's sales volume is good, we will have four of the last six months showing positive comparisons to the values from a year ago. That is particularly noteworthy when you consider that during the first half of the year, five of the six months were in negative territory. Hopefully the improvement in volume will lead to higher prices but it hasn't started just yet. Here is a chart of the average sales prices for residential sales in our Gatlinburg area real estate market: No bell will sound indicating that our Gatlinburg area real estate bear market has become more bullish. I...

Although our Smoky Mountain real estate market showed great volume in November, prices haven't yet risen. In fact, in November, we actually had the lowest average sales price in recent memory for our Gatlinburg area according to our Great Smoky Mountain Association of Realtors MLS database. The new low wasn't dramatic, as it was just below the average sales price that we saw in April of 2011. If December's sales volume is good, we will have four of the last six months showing positive comparisons to the values from a year ago. That is particularly noteworthy when you consider that during the first half of the year, five of the six months were in negative territory. Hopefully the improvement in volume will lead to higher prices but it hasn't started just yet. Here is a chart of the average sales prices for residential sales in our Gatlinburg area real estate market: No bell will sound indicating that our Gatlinburg area real estate bear market has become more bullis...