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Real Estate interest blog for those who want an insider's view of market trends and actions in the current economic situation. Other's views and questions are welcomed. Be nice and we will all learn from each other.
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According to the MLS statistics, Branson single family homes sales last month total was 11 homes with the highest priced one selling for $239,000 and the lowest priced one selling for $58,000. That is 1 less sold than last month on a short month so not much change to note. The medium price of $167,000 is a good increase which is some much needed good news for our Branson Real Estate Market. There were 3 condos that were reported to have closed escrow last month and they ranged from $94,500 to $220,000 in price. These sales were half as many as sold last month but a higher median price of $130,000 which shows very little improvement in the Branson Condo Market. Market information for land, farm and mobile-home sales and more information is available by request. Call or email me anytime, as there is never any obligation on your part.  Click on the picture to see my personal website and get more local info too!
Real estate is always local and we have had no problem getting financing for good buyers and a fair price for good property. Naturally, whether you should buy or sell depends upon your particular circumstances more than any other factor. If you would like to go over your situation and get an honest evaluation of whether you are in the right "timing" or not, I will be glad to help. You can aslo see what is going on in the market today: Search Listings Here for free. Or emailto: steve@ozarksagent.com and I will send them to you regularly. Stephen Mattison, ABR e-Pro Cell: (417) 350-9743 Carol Jones, Realtors Office (417) 338-2022 
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Branson Missouri Real Estate Market Report for December 2009 According to the local MLS, Branson single family homes sales last month total was 28. The highest priced one sold for $489,900 and the lowest priced one sold for $44,500 with a median price of $180,000. That is five less homes than November but slightly higher median price of $180,000 keeps it from being all bad news. Condo sales were also down by the same proportion with 6 closing escrow in December. The highest one sold for $132,500 and the lowest sold for $54,000. They also had a lower median price of $80,000, so no real good news for the condo sellers last month. 
Market information for land, farms, and mobile-home sales as well as other local information is available by request. Real estate is always local and there is no problem getting financing for good buyers and a fair price for good property, if you know the market. Naturally, whether you should buy or sell depends upon your particular circumstances more than any other factor. If you would like to go over your situation and get an honest evaluation of whether you are in the right "timing" or not, I will be glad to help. You can call my cell phone (417) 350-9743 or click on the following link to see what is available: Search Listings Here All future reports will be found on http://bransonmohouses.com so see you there!
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According to our local MLS' latest information, Branson single family homes sales last month were down 6 to only 16 total built on site homes sold. The highest priced one sold for $314,000 and the lowest priced one sold for $90,000. The median price for these homes was approximately $160,000 again, a good sign because the medium price is unchanged. 
Condo sales were down only 1 with 11 units sold last month. The highest one sold for approx. $225,000 and the lowest sold for $35,000. That shows a stable median sales price in that local market too. The number of condos sold is down slightly but prices are showing a steady return toward a normal market. Market information for land, farms, commercial, mobile-home sales and other local information is available by request. Real estate market conditions are always local and there is no problem getting financing for good buyers and a fair price for good property. Naturally, whether you should buy or sell depends upon your particular circumstances more than any other factor. If you would like to go over your situation and get an honest evaluation of whether you are in the right "timing" or not, I will be glad to help. You can call my cell phone (417) 350-9743 or office (417)350-9743 of Souvenir Realty, Inc. or just click on the following link to see what is available: Search Listings Here where you can view or sign-up for automatic listings.
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According to the local MLS statistics, single family homes sales in Stone, County last month total was 38 single family homes. The highest priced one sold for $560,000 and the lowest priced one sold for $35,000. That was only four less than the previous month's sales of non-manufactured built on the site, detached homes. The median price of homes sold was approximately $165,000 which is a little higher than last month which is a good sign as well.  Condos were almost unchanged with one more selling in the past month than the month before. However, the prices were greatly increased with the top selling price of $182,400 and the lowest one sold for $92,500. The medium price increased about $20,000 to $145,000 and that is a really good sign that things are looking up in condo sales too 
The big picture shows a more normal market starting to return to this area. Real Estate Market information is local and we have financing available at great rates for buyers with decent credit. For owners this is great news and a good price is now possible on your home or other investment property. Naturally, whether you should buy or sell depends upon your particular circumstances more than any other factor. If you would like to go over your situation and get an honest evaluation of whether you are in a good "time to buy or sell" I will be glad to help. You can call my cell (417)350-9743 or click here: Search Listings Here or call 417-357-8326 for our office manager.
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According
to our local TriLakes MLS' latest information, Branson single family
homes sales last month were up 50% with a total of 22 built on site
homes sold. The highest priced one sold for $285,000 and the lowest
priced one sold for $67,800. The median price for these homes was
approximately $160,000 a good increase for us.
Condo sales were down 50% with 12 units sold last month. The highest
one sold for approx. $222,000 and the lowest sold for $52,500. That
shows a higher median sales price in that local market too. The number
of condos sold is down some but prices are showing a steady return
toward a normal market.
Market information for land, farms, commercial, mobile-home sales
and other local information is available by request. Real estate market
conditions are always local and there is no problem getting financing
for good buyers and a fair price for good property. Naturally, whether
you should buy or sell depends upon your particular circumstances more
than any other factor.
If you would like to go over your situation and get an honest
evaluation of whether you are in the right "timing" or not, I will be
glad to help. You can call my cell phone (417) 350-9743 or click on the
following link to see what is available: Search Listings Here Stephen Mattison, ABR e-Pro
Souvenir Realty, Inc.
Office: (417)357-8326
Cell: (417) 350-9743
E-mail Me!
Website for Listings & more!
My Blog
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According
to the local MLS statistics, single family homes sales in Stone, County
last month total was 42 single family homes. The highest priced one
sold for $405,000 and the lowest priced one sold for $10,500. That was
two more than double the previous month's sales of non-manufactured
built on the site, single family homes. The median price of homes sold
was approximately $160,000 but one home sold in the $800,000 price
range with an un-disclosed sales price which may have increased the
median quite a bit.
These figures show there were less short-sales and foreclosure home
sales and more owner-occupied single family home re-sales. Good news
indeed for the Stone County and Table Rock Lake area Real Estate
Market. Condo sales were down a little with 6 condos sold last month,
the highest price was $153,333 and the lowest was $75,000. The big
picture shows a more normal market starting to return to this area.
Real Estate Market information is local and we have financing
available at great rates for buyers with decent credit. For owners this
is great news and a good price is now possible on your home or other
investment property. Naturally, whether you should buy or sell depends
upon your particular circumstances more than any other factor. If you
would like to go over your situation and get an honest evaluation of
whether you are in a good "time to buy or sell" I will be glad to help.
You can call my cell (417)350-9743 or click here: Search Listings Here
Stephen Mattison, ABR e-Pro
Souvenir Realty, Inc.
Office: (417)357-8326
Cell: (417) 350-9743
E-mail Me!
Website for Listings & more!
My Blog
Twitter
Facebook for Branson
Facebook for Me
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Stone County Missouri Real Estate Market Report for June 2009 According to the MLS statistics, single family homes sales in Stone, County last month total was 23 homes with the highest priced one selling for $425,000 and the lowest priced one sold for $115000. There were less short-sales and foreclosure sales and more owner re-sales. Good news indeed for the Stone County and Table Rock Lake area Real Estate Market. 
Real Estate Market information is local and we have financing available for buyers and a good price still being found on investment property. Naturally, whether you should buy or sell depends upon your particular circumstances more than any other factor. If you want to read a good article on the Mortgage situation I recommend Ken Cooks's blog for Novation: http://activerain.com/blogsview/1136482/why-loan-officers-kill-deals-cost-you-time-and-money-and-anger-customers he is smart and funny too, a good read. If you would like to go over your situation and get an honest evaluation of whether you are in the right "timing" or not, I will be glad to help. You can call my cell (417) 350-9743 or if you want to see what is available today: Search Listings Here
Steve Mattison - Your Ozarksagent
Souvenir Realty, Inc. 417-357-8326
emailto:steve@ozarksagent.com
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REALTOR® for a brokerage that went out of business last year, I was forced to create a new brand and re-start my business from square one in an environment that could not be described as a "cyber-culture." Just to avoid any misconceptions, I am not saying that the Ozarks are full of illiterate, banjo playing, hillbillies, but our lifestyle is not a starbucks-fueled, hyper-blackberry, speed-racer paced one either. Branson and the Table Rock Lake area are more of the retro-baby-boomer oriented style of culture that know how to use the internet but are not dependent upon it daily.
My challenge has also been maximized by the reality that in our rural area, which is true in much of Missouri, there are no daily newspapers or even rarer, local radio stations. Communicating my brand to this rural region is therefore not able to be done by e-newsletters, newspaper advertising, nor occasional radio blips. Matter of a fact, there is no certain way to reach a majority of those who live in and/or frequent this neck of the woods. This brings me to reason for my story. 
I have been doing the hated face to face, one on one, day in and day out word of mouth branding that requires a lot of gas, walking, and talking to strangers as well as friends and neighbors. One day I went up a driveway that was marked "private drive" and made face to face contact with the angriest man I have ever met in my life. I mean this man had demons, he would have killed me on the spot if his eyes had been loaded for bear. After unloading his verbal venom on me and making sure I knew he did not want to ever see me within a mile of his holler ever again, I made a courteous exit as I thanked God he did not have a gun with him that day. No wonder people hate to go out and meet strangers without being invited, it is dangerous, if not stupid. Guess I will have to find a better way to "get-r-done."
True, word of mouth and face to face is the best method of advertising I know of, however, between the price of gas, time it takes to develop trust in new relationships, and the inherit danger involved, the challenge has become, become branded before breaking the bank. I feel like I am in a real race against the real estate market recovery schedule and only time will tell if I will win or not!
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This time of year there are a variety of holidays and fiestas, etc. celebrated by people all over the world. Whatever you are celebrating and however you do it, I just want to wish you the very best season of celebration and a wonderful new year too.  Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Happy Hannukah, Happy Kwanza, & Happy whatever else I can't think of to all you in the love of the Spirit of the season. Your Ozarksagent, Steve
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People of the 21st Century do not accept sales pitches and smoke being blown over their heads like the good old days. They need to hear that things are not moving like they were and that prices are not as high as they were, just to know you are telling them the truth. Continuing to tell your clients that things are looking good and their property will sell at their hoped for price any day now is probably not going to be received very well, once they have had time to think about your message to them. I have been watching the local agents in the Branson MLS lower and raise prices on real estate from week to week, seemingly without reason. I guess they hope it will attract some attention with the price change itself but today there were almost as many raising their prices as lowering them, which is unusual. Mostly they have been lowering them recently to reflect the slowing market, but with that many being raised, maybe they felt they had previously lowered them too much, or just had to do something to attract attention and could not get the seller to agree to lower them any more so they had to raise them just a little to make a change. I have been telling my clients to wait and see what happens, it may be after the election people will settle down and start buying again, right now there seems to be so much economic, political, and future uncertainty that folks just do not want to make that big of decision till they know more about what the future holds. Whatever the reason, better times have to be ahead because they could not be much slower than they have been lately. Hold on, tell the truth, and it will all seem like a bad dream a year from now:)
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More people with more insider knowledge than me have been posting advice and opinions that now is the time to invest in real estate, it may never be this price again for land or homes. I have been seeing a lot of "expert" blogs agreeing that the bottom is here and the prices will be going up. By this time next year, if you could have made the purchase this year, you will probably look back and wish you had gone ahead and bought before the prices started going back up. They will you know, and when they do, I believe they will recover much faster than anyone expects. I wrote a blog almost a month ago saying this at http://www.ozarksagent.com/blogs/stephen_mattison/archive/2008/08/03/time-to-buy-in-my-opinion.aspx. Stating, in my opinion, in the Ozarks we were already seeing a levelling off in the prices which indicated a bottom had been reached. Since then I have seen many of the experts writing the same thing regarding the national market. Any good agent will know in their local market whether that has occurred and that is who should be asked. Your local Real Estate Agent is the expert on the local market and what the media is saying may or may not be relevant to that market. So I suggest you get the scoop first hand from a reputable local REALTOR®.
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I know a lot of smart home buyers are waiting for the bottom of the prices for homes before making their decision to buy, and it looks like that time may be here. We are seeing the signs of recovery starting with the gas prices going back down, along with the price of oil, gold, corn, and other key indicators showing that there is a turn around in the economy happening that should drive up mortgage rates, especially since the freddie/fannie reinforcement by the federal governments latest actions. Let me assure you, this may not be the exact day, but the give or take a very short period of time, we are there as far as home buying processes are concerned. You will not find a better time to buy than right now, I believe, and it may be another ten years before we see the timing any better than it is right now. Get ahold of your local agent and start looking for the one you want today, before things change as they can recover very quickly once the process takes off, and it will. So wait no more, make that purchase while the prices are as low as they will go, in my opinion.
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Most people have no idea who those two are, but after this weekend, homebuyers and sellers will take notice. Even though they are privately held companies, they are being treated like they were still government funded entities. Even a professional in this market gets confused by the message they are sending but the bottom line is they are solvent, capitalized, and able to function just fine. That being true, the Treasury just wanted to reassure the stock market that they were actually financially ok? It seems, confidence in our economy requires confidence in our banking industry that requires confidence in the dollar which can be realized by an improved housing market? Or is it the other way around? I am certainly not an economist and admit it is all a little confusing, to say the least. However, the bottom line seems to be, due to our lack of confindence, we are paying the price of fear. Sometimes, what we focus on is what we get, therefore, we should focus on recovery, with confidence in our banking, housing and mortgage industry as well as our economy and that will bring it about? Sure seems like a better idea than any of the alternatives I have heard.
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The owners of over 700 acres adjoing the property I previously listed are willing to sell as well. A home, barn, workshop and other amenities will be included and the approximately 1000 acres and the entire package can be purchased for under 9 million dollars. This would make an incredible hunting preserve, golf course with homes, or other exclusive deveiopment on US Hwy between Branson and Springfield along the main west corridor between these two popular destinations. With the new airport and growth coming to this area, now is the time to get a huge parcel like this while it can be found. Steve, Your Ozarksagent with Souvenir Realty, Inc. 417-350-9743 is my cell. Office 417-357-8326. E-mail steve@ozarksagent.com for more info too.
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