Florence, OR

Hi everyone, here is the new sales update for the last 2 months. It has been a strange month for real estate here in Florence.

Just for your information and my curiousity here is the difference from last year:

Total Properties for sale in our area October 2008 = 746 - Total Properties for October this year 785 = 39 more listings.

Sales for October 2008 = 25 - Sales this year = 33 = 8 more sales

Average Days on the Market for October 2008 = 234 - this year 265 = 31 more days to sell.

I hate to spoil the report for you but this is pretty interesting to me so maybe it will interest you also.

October 2008 available bare land was 213 listings with an average listing price of $286,043.

Bare land sales were 2 with an average sale price of $99,000.

This year available bare land is 298 Listings with an average listing price of $286,043, a difference of $132,726.

Bare land sales last month were 4 with an average sale price of $66,875, a difference of $32,125.

So, here are just a few statistics taken from the old report and the new report which were compiled using data taken from the RMLS web site.

Click on this link to see all of the up to date stats.

SALES UPDATE_November.pdf

Thank you for reading my blog. Have a great month.

FLORENCE, DUNES CITY, MAPLETON

AND COASTAL LANE COUNTY

market area of Lane County, OR

New Listings may include properties previously listed by the same or a different brokerage.
Cancellations or Expired Listings may, therefore, by duplicated in the active category.
Pending Sales are those subject to a new sale agreement within the month.
Active Listings are those for sale on the last day of the month.
Closed Listings are those that closed in escrow within the report month.

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A decade's worth of supply (Active Listings) and demand (Closed Sales)
for the

Months of September

2006-2009:

And a decade of Average Price of Closed Sales
for the

Months of September

2006-2009:

Caution: The average for a small number of total sales may be drastically distorted by just or or two sales that depart significantly from the data median.

These average sales prices represent the arithmetic mean for those residential closed sales in this RMLS market area. The mix of homes sold varies over time. An arithmetic median would make for a better comparison but is unavailable from RMLS.

Enjoy the beauty of Florence, Oregon with the mountains, ocean, beaches and dunes just waiting for you. If you like to boat & fish you have your pick of more than 15 lakes. Siltcoos Lake offers fishing tournaments and Woahink is zoned as an airport landing site and it allows skiing and more. Coastal Lane County also offers 5+ campgrounds for your week-end getaway or full summer vacation. See the sun set on the sandy beaches, go for a horseback ride on the beach or follow the many trails with a guide. Scuba diving is awesome at the North Jetty, ride the waves or just take a quiet walk and pick up some agates or sea shells.

Play on the many trails on a 4-wheeler or sand rail at the staging areas at the South Jetty. In the right time of year you can even take your 4-wheel drive vehicle over the wall and drive down the beach, just don't get too close to the water and watch those sneaker waves!

If you enjoy the historical bay front you can park your car and take a walk to see all of the amazing stores and the treasures that they hold for all visitors. Sit in the Gazebo or walk down on the boat docks. Much more fun awaits your arrival to the fresh air of one of the most popular getaways on the pacific coast and in sunny, central, coastal Oregon.

Florence also offers a multitude of meeting places including the Three River's Casino which offers banquet rooms and meeting rooms, the Florence Event Center and even the Drifwood Shores Motel has meeting rooms. The Florence Public Library which was expanded in 2009, has meeting rooms also.

Downtown Florence has a Siuslaw Pioneer Museum and many historical buildings. There are restaurants serving nearly every type of food you can imagine from fresh caught seafood to specialty dishes and delicious pastries and desserts. Come to Florence on the central Oregon coast and find your new home and the life that is waiting for you here.

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Over the last couple of weeks over 50 Humboldt squid have washed up on the local beaches. This is quite rare as these are usually found in California. This kind of squid is also called Red Devils or Jumbo Squid and can grow up to 7 feet long. (Taken from Siuslaw News newspaper, September 23rd issue). So my husband went to the Heceta Beach, near Driftwood Shores and took this picture of one of these giant, dead creatures. He said the ones he saw were an average of about 4 foot long and they smelled really bad.

The other really cool part of the story (taken from Siuslaw News, September 30th issue) is that one of the squids was wrapped up in a partial US Marines jacket and the high school students used it to carry a well preserved specimen back to the school so they could study it. It turns out that the jacket belonged to a local ex-Marine who hadn't seen it for 6 years. Wow! That is a real strange coincindence.