Apex, NC

No beautiful Silent Sunday picture today, although it was a gorgeous fall day here in Apex.

No picture of Apex Town park where I went walking yesterday, but my camera batteries had died.

Nor am I writing any local real estate stats or news stories about happenings in the Raleigh area.

Just a few musings to get me past my bloggers block and start the week.

Like a lot of people, my husband and I enjoy reading the Sunday morning newspaper together. The kitchen table is often covered in ads, coupons being clipped out (and rarely used) and coffee cups.

And of course the best part- the comic page! However, have you noticed that in order to save paper and therefore save money, newspapers are shrinking the size of the individual comic strips? A comic strip that used to take up a whole width of a single page is now being squeezed in to half the space. Some comic strips are becoming almost too hard to read.

Every comic strip is shrunk, except Prince Valiant! Now Prince Valiant has probably been around for 150 years or so. I remember seeing it as a kid. HOWEVER, I have never read it! It always seemed so dark and old fashioned. Of all the great strips that are being written today, why is Prince Valiant even wasting space being printed still, much less taking up a full third of the page?

As my husband says- what happened to the Jackson Twins? Prince Valiant is sill alive, but we still don't know how to tell the difference between Jill and Jan Jackson?

Isn't it great to live in America, and be of an certain age that we can have the time and nothing more important to do at this particular moment in our life than to laugh with your family about old comic strips?

On to Real Estate things and work on Monday!

Raleigh Relocation Package - Schools

Jordan Lake School of the Arts

An inclusive school for children on the autism spectrum and typical siblings

There's a unique school in Apex NC that's been growing in popularity. The Jordan Lake School of the Arts is specifically designed for both autistic students and their siblings.

Some of the distinctive features of the Jordan Lake School of the Arts are:

• 5 to 1 student to teacher ratio
• Individual educational curriculum
• Local artists participating in workshops
• Tropical greenhouse
• Outdoor and indoor class space
• Nature hikes and gardening
• Social curriculum

The Jordan Lake School of the Arts also offers occupational therapy, speech therapy and therapeutic listening on site, along with a "before and after school" program, which specific focus on the special needs of autistic students.

Beth Kuklinski, a parent of an autistic child and a certified educator, describes the Jordan Lake School of the Arts this way:

"Many schools have become places with no time or space for those who march to the beat of their own drum...we like the music better over here."

Find out more about all the programs offered at Jordan Lake School of the Arts

Jordan Lake School of the Arts

1434 Farrington Road Apex, NC 27502
919-672-4281

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So much for the Recession! Here in Apex North Carolina several national companies have enough faith in this area to be opening 2 large stores in the next few weeks.

Scheduled for an October 14 opening, Walmart will be welcoming guests to it's latest super store. Located on the Apex Peakway by the intersection of Hwy 55 and Hwy 1, Walmart will be a great addition to our town.

Meanwhile, over at Beaver Creek Commons, a great crew is busy setting up the new A.C. Moore store. A very popular craft & art supply store, AC Moore sells everything from scrap-booking supplies to picture frames to kids toys and art supplies. This store will also be offering classes in cake decorating and many other of the popular crafts. An end of October opening is planned.

These two new stores will probably prove to be very popular to the retail market in Apex, especially in time for the upcoming holiday shopping.

Of course if you want to buy a house in Apex or Cary, Linda Jandura is always the one to call!

September is heralded as the end of summer, and in real estate our traditionally busiest season of the year.

After the apparent National free fall of the Real Estate Market, cushioned somewhat here in the Raleigh area by our relatively low appreciation rate of the last few year, we still like to see how the numbers add up.

With Apex being named as America's No.3 place to move by Forbes this year, has this inspired thousands to relocate here. Well, maybe not this year!

This information is for Area 15, the town of Apex proper as provided by the Triangle Multiple Listing Service.

As with the Cary Market report that I posted yesterday, the total # of homes for sale seemed to hold steady throughout the summer. However, the total # closed in August was way down. Looking at the number of homes under contract for August though, we can see that perhaps many of those will close in early September, or may not have been counted yet.

As with Cary, the average price of homes sold in the Area 15 section of Apex , rose significantly from June to August.

Like to know what the numbers say about your area? or more specifically, what your home is worth? Give me a call or email and I'll be happy to talk to you and get that information out to you.