About Flagler County, FL

The Washington Oaks Gardens State Park off A1A in Flagler County recently was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Historic District for the period of 1937 to 1965. The Historic District encompasses 21 acres of the 389 acres National Park. During the recent celebration a new gift shop opened in one of the old re-furbished buildings. Marineland, in Northern Flagler County received the Historic designation in 1986. For more information about Washington Oaks Gardens visit the web site at http://www.floridastateparks.org/washingtonoaks/

I am very excited and optimistic with what is taking place in Palm Coast. This past year, 2009, has seen a dramatic increase in Buyer traffic and sales. Inventory has somewhat stabilized and prices are holding their own. I have had 4 recent closes and another on Friday....NOT ONE is Short Sale and 4 are First TimeHomebuyers. Let's keep this machine rolling!!

Earlier this year when I started www.PalmCoastHomeShow.com, the goal was to provide buyers an easy and powerful means to shop for Real Estate locally in the Palm Coast & Flagler County , FL area as well as provide sellers a means to get the most exposure for their property they wish to sell. As I shop through other websites myself, I have found it to be tedious and often limited to generic criteria such as price and sqaure footage. The shopper is then left with a list of homes that are scattered over the area and are left trying to narrow it down from there. Location is often the feature that people want to start with first. Therefore, one of the most powerful features I wanted to provide shoppers was the ability to start with neighborhood first and then allow them the ability to filter that list down. The feedback has been great from visitors and they love this particular aspect starting their searches. You can visit the Listings by Neighborhood at the Palm Coast Home Show to see more.

I know at times that buyers want to go out on the road on their own and shop for properties even after we are working together. Obviously there are inherent challenges to driving around looking at properties, you can't get the same information and views that you can while on the Palm Coast Home Show looking at properties for sale. I wanted to find a solution that puts all of that same information in your hands while out on the road. And that's why I am very excited to bring you the MyAgent IPhone App (Blackberry & Android Phone Apps coming soon) which allows you to take The Palm Coast Home Show with you on the road. This little application (myAgent App) simply requires you to download it for FREE and enter the agent code of 4082. After that you are on your way. These are just a few of the great features:

1. This application will locate your phone through the installed GPS and automatically properties for sale around your location.
2. Filter the list by price, bedrooms, square footge
3. Get details, satellite views, and photos of the property
4. Scheduling a showing or getting more information is simple with my information available at the top of every search. Just give me a call or send me an email.
5. It's that simple

Just knowing how many homes is not always enough. It's important for those thinking of selling to know what the buyer make up of an area is in order to have reasonable expectations when thinking of selling. Front and foremost, as of the beginning of November we are about 8% above last year in terms of the total number of homes sold with 1166 for the county compared to 1074 from the same period last year. So what homes are selling? Let's take a look:

As can see, the primary price range in the area is up to $200k. About 41% of all homes sold in the area so far have been short sales. And about 1% being foreclosures. In that $0 to $200k price range, about 48% of all sales have been short sales.

The next thing to look at is how long can I expect it to take my house to sell? This varies on a variety of factors, but the stats for the area for the year are as follows:

As you can see for the most part, the $0 to $200k has the lowest number of days on the market in the area.

In terms of overall performance this year, we are seeing some very positive signs. As I said in the beginning of this year, the prices will not change until number of sales increases and number of homes for sale goes down which we are seeing both. The more important component being the number of sales. We are currently about 8% higher than this time last year in overall number of Residential home sales in Flagler County:

Because of this we are also starting to see a "flattening out" of median prices in the area. Number of sales and median price will react about a year a part. Therefore, the quantity of sales increase is very important and a very positive sign for the future of the area.

*Statistics based upon the Flagler County Association of Realtors MLS from 1/1/2009 through 11/2/2009. All information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

9 Whittlesey, Palm Coast – Wow, what a deal!

With deals like this, Florida real estate is becoming more attractive everyday…

4 Bedroom – 3 Baths with over 1,900 square feet of living area! Built in 2003.

SOLD in September 2009 for $139,900 !!!

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This property was a “Short Sale” approved by the lender. Sold by Hawk Beach Realty.

*All Information is gathered from the FLGMLS and is deemed reliable but not guaranteed