Spring Hill, FL

If you are thinking about buying a home or land for personal or investment use, or you are thinking about selling in Hernando County, Florida, including the communities and neighborhoods of Hernando Beach, Weeki Wachee, Brooksville and Spring Hill, Glen Lakes, Timber Pines, Silverthorn, Seven Hills, Sterling Hill, Pristine Place, and Southern Hills Plantation and you want to work with a local area Realtor who knows these neighborhoods please contact Silvia Dukes, P.A., Tropic Shores Realty.

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Timber Pines is a 55+ gated golf course community in the heart of Spring Hill, FL

The community consists of approximately 3500 privately owned homes and villas ranging from 1 bedroom/1 bath villas to 4 bedroom homes. Built between 1975 and 1998 by US Homes, units are resident owned. Timber Pines offers its residents a variety of amenities including two swimming pools, tennis courts, club house, activities and clubs, performing arts center, and not to forget several golf courses that include a 18-hole Championship course, all in all 63 holes to put a golf ball in!

Just like anywhere else in Hernando County, closed transactions in Timber Pines for January 2009 were rather few. However, taking into consideration the time required from contract to close, this rather reflects on a slow sales period in November and December of last year. This might further be supported by a considerable increase in homes that are under contract and expected to close in February and March 2009.

Sold January 2009: 4

Price Range: $125,000 - $190,000

Average: $157,250

Median: $157,000

Average Days on Market: 92

Currently Active Listings: 179

Under Contract: 14

Pending: 8, Price Range: $110,000 - $255,750

Contingency Contracts: 6, Price Range: $149,900 - $239,900

Data derived from Hernando County MLS as of 2/1/09 and believed to be accurate but not guaranteed.

If you are thinking about buying a home or land for personal or investment use, or you are thinking about selling in Hernando County, Florida, including the communities and neighborhoods of Hernando Beach, Weeki Wachee, Brooksville and Spring Hill, Glen Lakes, Timber Pines, Silverthorn, Seven Hills, Sterling Hill, Pristine Place, and Southern Hills Plantation and you want to work with a local area Realtor who knows these neighborhoods please contact me.

Hernando County's artist community is represented by not just one but two organizations, the Hernando County Fine Arts Council and the Spring Hill Art League and has become quite an active community in recent years that is attracting attention throughout the county and beyond.

Especially, thanks to the Spring Hill Art League, artists now have ten business locations throughout the County available to them where their art pieces are on display to the public. Rather than people having to go to a gallery, art is coming to them at those place where they already do business! What better way to promote the arts and delight people at the same time!

The Spring Hill Art League meets monthly and new members and guests are always welcome. A short business meeting is followed by live demonstrations by artist members in their respective specialty. This Monday, January 19th, local wildlife artist Valdora Ward will demonstrate her techniques of painting on various surfaces most notably feathers.

Other activities include workshops, trips to museums and other art related events, annual art show, and more. For meeting times and locations, please visit the Spring Hill Art League website.

Come join us!

Today, members of the Spring Hill Rotary Club spent hours distributing free dictionaries to all third graders in the schools of Spring Hill.

This was the third year, the club has participated in this annual literacy project together with the other two local Rotary clubs but it was the first time I had the great pleasure to participate.

Entering the first classroom - an all boys class as such - we were greeted with excited exclamations of "Books!" The kids were genuinely pleased and excited to each receive their very own dictionary that they could take home with them, read, share with family members, and use in their homework assignments.

The first task was to write their names into the book to make it their own! The second task was to check out the longest word in the English language with a "homework assignment" to be able to spell correctly by next week! Oh yes, the teachers were challenged to pronounce it for them!

Lugging around 30 cases of books - 700 dictionaries in total - certainly was a task.

Handing them out to the students and watching their curiosity, excitement and joy - priceless!

Rotarians - Service above Self!

Silverthorn is a gated and deed-restricted golf course community located in Brooksville, just a few miles West of US 41 and South of US 50 offering privacy with easy access to shopping, medical facilities, major roadways, and all area amenities. Tampa is just a short drive away, approx. 45 minutes via the Suncoast Parkway. The community offers upscale country club living with 24-hour security, an elegant clubhouse, community center, pool and tennis facilities. Properties available range from smaller villas to grand homes.

Sales in Silverthorn in 2008

Total Closed Transactions: 38

Sales Price Range: $125,000 - $489,900

Median Price: $227,550

Average Price: $249,379

Average Marketing Time: 126 Days

Villas: 9

Sales Price Range: $131,500 - $250,000

Median Price: $165,250

Average Price: $166,625

Average Marketing Time: 141 Days

Homes: 25

Sales Price Range: $125,000 - $489,900

Median Price: $227,550

Average Price: $249,379

Average Marketing Time: 126 Days

Currently Available and under Contract:

Offered for Sale: 38

Under Contract: 1

Sales Data derived from Hernando County MLS and believed to be accurate but not guaranteed.

Please also take a look at the 2008 home sales for the country club communities of Glen Lakes and Timber Pines.

For more information about Silverthorn or other country club communities in Hernando County, Spring Hill, and Brooksville, please contact me.