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Unit sales were down 7% according to info the Columbus Board of Realtors supplied to the media yesterday. And to us the membership a day later… I’ve always had a hard time with that… hearing it or reading it from the media… yes historically we did not have the channels to transmit the information internally but we do now. I just think the real estate bloggers should get to scoop the media.

Business First of Columbus - Realtors: Area homes sales down 7% in 2007

The Columbus Dispatch - “Housing rebound on way?”

” Dismal ‘07 could lead to local-market rebirth”

Daily Reporter - Local Realtors say they expect home sales to improve during 2008

With a 7% decrease in unit sales the year was still the 4th largest (highest) on record. Dollar volume was down 8% and the average price slid from 174,882 dollars to 172,990 dollars.

According to the President of the Columbus Board of Realtors, Greg Hrabcak, there were less homes sales over a million dollars in 2007. There were also more home sales under 30,000 dollars, investors buying while the buying is good.

The story is also available to the public via the consumer info available at the e Columbus Board of Realtors website.  It’s in our In Contract Magazine for the membership as well “2007 best year on record for central Ohio home buyers”

This series has not been as much fun as I thought it would be. Oh well…

I can’t post the questions 5 and 6…. it is just too much… It’s too spammy that they are the only one for the job… it’s came from an email spam after all. Super Dry Basement guy (he’s got kind of a superman thing going on on the website) wrote the book on “Super Dry Basements”

Here’s a synopsis…

USE US

Don’t Use a GC

Don’t use a handy man

Don’t use anyone unless they are “COMMERCIAL” like us…

We use STUFF they can’t buy…

I showed a property with a wet basement recently… or maybe a formerly wet basement… there may be some moisture coming in the walls is a better description. It just was not a pretty basement but we looked at the property three times. He wanted to get input from a family member and a friend about that basement. Last night the buyer told me he’d ruled it out.

We’d asked some questions about the basement and got no response.

Nice place. Ugly basement.

Wet Basement Quiz Question 4

Wet Basement Quiz Question 3

Wet Basement Quiz Question 2

Central Ohio Wet Basement Quiz…

From mortgage professional Dan Green a video with stick figures showing changing mortgage guidelines this decade.

I found Dan’s video on Teri Lussier’s The Brick Ranch from Huber Heights Ohio (Dayton area.)  Dan is in Cincinnati and Chicago.  I posted a bigger version on Discover Columbus, it was too wide here.

Columbus is NOT on the list.

If you are looking for a job… looking to move from Columbus in search of employment.. (I believe Columbus is a bright spot in employment in the state of Ohio… but it did not make the Forbes.com list com compiled by Moody’s Economy.com for 2008.)

Best US Cities for Jobs…

Lots of Texas cities, Seattle of course, Atlanta, Raleigh… Indianapolis! They’ve got one of those slide shows of the best cities for jobs in the United States.

I heard about the Forbes.com report on Twitter from Stephanie Edwards a real estate agent in the Houston Texas area. Yup Houston is one of the Texas cities on the list of best cities for jobs in 2008.

Relocating for employment? How much is your Central Ohio Home worth?

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day Central Ohio

This is an eCard from Real Living.