Portsmouth NH Real Estate Market Update - September 2008
Real estate is always one of the topics of conversation wherever we go, because who isn't interested in real estate and how markets are doing! Someone is always looking to buy a home, sell a home, or they know someone thinking about buying or selling real estate of some sort.
Home sellers and home buyers in Portsmouth NH are no different, and I get asked about the New Hampshire real estate market all the time. I love real estate, and helping people buy and sell homes and condos, so I never tire of real estate conversations!
Here is how the real estate market here in Portsmouth did for the month of September 2008:
The numbers above are showing us an absorption rate for homes in Portsmouth NH to be just under 5 months. The absorption rate tells us how long it would take to absorb the current inventory of homes for sale in Portsmouth NH if no other homes came on the market for sale. This month's absorption rate has improved over August's absorption rate for Portsmouth NH homes.
Thinking about making Portsmouth New Hampshire your home? Call me today at 888-349-5678 x 3839, or send me an email at ann@anncummings.com, and let's talk real estate!
Related Reading:
Seacoast New Hampshire Real Estate Market Reports
Absorption Rates and Why They're Important to Know
Ann Cummings, New Hampshire REALTOR
RE/MAX Coast to Coast
Portsmouth NH
ann@anncummings.com
888-349-5678 x 3839
Servicing the Coastal Areas of NH & Southern Maine
Thinking about selling your home or condo in Portsmouth NH? If so, this is a great season to help enhance the beauty of your home!
Fall colors and scents are glorious here in New Hampshire and Maine. Embrace them and put them to use to help showcase your condo or home to potential Portsmouth homebuyers.
Fall here in the Seacoast is just gorgeous, and these tips will help you incorporate that beauty into your Portsmouth NH home to help potential buyers see that beauty as well!
Some of these tips are common sense, and some add a really nice welcoming feeling to potential buyers and their agents, and they all offer homeowners easy things to think about doing if their home is for sale.
-- "Curb Appeal" - never forget to think about those all-important 'first impressions'. With the gorgeous colors of fall leaves, this can add to a home's already existing appeal, however all those leaves laying around on the ground certainly don't. Clean them up!!
-- "Celebrate the Season" - this is one that I have to admit I wouldn't have given much thought to. Embrace the fall and have fall decorating items--hang a nice fall wreath, arrange some pumpkins & corn stalks - what a nice way to greet people at the front door. Nothing says 'welcome' like a nice display of seasonal things at the entry of a home!
-- "Let the Light In" - oh how important this one is!! If you have heavy curtains or drapes, open them up and let the sun shine in!! Turn on lamps and make your home exude a warmth and welcome for showings.
-- "Your Fireplace" - if you have a fireplace, this is a lovely time of year to show it off. Place a log or two in the fireplace, or if you have a gas fireplace, flick the switch and have a nice fire burning/glowing to welcome potential homebuyers. You can place a nice candle holder in the fireplace that holds several candles. What a great way to say welcome to those looking at your home or condo!
-- "Scents of the Season" - the sense of smell is the strongest sense to appeal to. Most people are greatly enticed by the scents of cinnamon and apples. Bake a fresh apple pie and/or cinnamon cookies - what a great way to welcome potential homebuyers! Leave a plate of these fresh-baked goodies with a note to have buyers enjoy a treat while viewing your home - a very nice touch that they won't forget.
These tips were inspired by an article in Realty Times written by Michele Dawson. They are just as timely today as when they were written several years ago. To read the full article and see more tips, click here....
If you're thinking about selling your Portsmouth NH home or condo, give me a call! We can set up a time to meet and discuss the current Portsmouth area real estate market and ways to get your home S-O-L-D! Call me today at 888-349-5678 x 3839, or send me an email at ann@anncummings.com, and let's talk real estate!
Ann Cummings, New Hampshire REALTOR
RE/MAX Coast to Coast
Portsmouth NH
ann@anncummings.com
888-349-5678 x 3839
Servicing the Coastal Areas of NH & Southern Maine 
Hampton Beach NH has a yearly Seafood Festival, and the first weekend in September each year is everyone's opportunity to fill ourselves full of all kinds of fabulous food from over 50 local area restaurants. Talk about yummy - every single morsel I indulged in was absolutely scrumptious!
Living in New Hampshire, and New England in general, affords those of us fortunate enough to call this part of the country home countless places to indulge in some of the finest seafood in the world.
And once a year, you get to meander from food booth to food booth dining on every kind of local seafood all in one place! How cool is that?!?!?!?
I must admit, in all the years I've lived here in Portsmouth NH, I have never been down to the Hampton Beach Seafood Festival until this year. And now I know what I've been missing all these years!
This is the 19th Annual Seafood Festival, and it just keeps getting better and better from what I can heaing. It's so good and such a great family event that it has been named "One of the Top 100 Events in America" for a number of years. And now that I've been myself, I can see why the festival continues to receive that recognition!
I went on opening day with good friends Jay and Monika McGillicuddy and another great friend of ours, and we had a great time trying as much seafood as we could. Some of what we sampled, and loved, were lobster rolls, fried clams, sauteed lobster tails on a stick, grilled shrimp on a stick, grilled swordfish on a stick, fried onion rings, coconut shrimp, steamed lobster and corn-on-the-cob, chowder, ice cream, and some beverages of course. The really great thing about this festival is that you can dine on all this great seafood at less than half the price you'd have to pay if you ate in the restaurants that have the food booths. It doesn't get any better than that, that's for sure!
In addition to the yummiest seafood you can imagine, there's also a variety of bands playing throughout the weekend, arts and crafts booths, and fireworks, as well as great sidewalk sales in front of all the shops along the Hampton Beach Boardwalk area.
Not a seafood lover? Not to worry, you can also find chicken, hot dogs, chinese food, ribs, and other food not from the sea. That all looked delicious as well.
For those of us who live here in the NH Seacoast area, we get all kinds of great fun events like this to take part in all year long. Just one of the many perks and benefits of calling this great area HOME!!
Have you been dreaming of living by the ocean? Hampton Beach NH has been named one of the top 3 cleanest beaches in America. Watch this video by MSNBC ---> America's Beaches - Hampton Beach awarded FIVE stars for being the cleanest in the country!
Are you thinking about buying a home or condo in the Seacoast New Hampshire Maine area? Call me today at 603-431-1111 x 3839, or send me an email, and let's talk real estate! I'd love to help you achieve your dream of living along the coast.....
Ann Cummings, New Hampshire REALTOR
RE/MAX Coast to Coast
Portsmouth NH
ann@anncummings.com
888-349-5678 x 3839
Servicing the Coastal Areas of NH & Southern Maine
Portsmouth NH - Early Morning Views From the Sidewalks Around Town
Portsmouth New Hampshire is such an awesome town to live in, and to visit as well. We have all kinds of things to do here for everyone and we're a beautiful port city full of history. Portsmouth was settled in 1623 after all, so it would be natural to have living history all around us here, and we do.
Our neighborhoods are full of beautiful homes, both old and new, many with wonderful welcoming porches, and sidewalks to take you wherever you want. Beautiful old trees line many of our streets, friendly greetings from residents, bright and colorful gardens everywhere you look - a fabulous place to call home.
This morning I decided to go for an early morning walk. The air was crisp and dry, the sun was shining, and walking daily is something I'd been telling myself to start doing for a long time now. Today, I did just that.
I walked along Sagamore Avenue, Broad Street, Merrimac Street, Miller Avenue, Middle Street, Court Street, Rogers Street, Richards Avenue, South Street, and various other Little Harbor neighboring streets. As I was walking along these streets, I got wonderful glimpses of lots of beautiful pocket gardens that you just can't see from the car.
I saw homes with a different perspective than I've had all this time when driving by them. Beautiful old New Englanders, Colonials, Victorians, Capes, and more - all with a history behind each one of them. I even walked past the only on-going 'farm' in Portsmouth.
Having taken this walk this morning, I realize there's so much more to this wonderful town I call home. You just don't see from a car what you can see on foot. If you haven't walked around your own town or neighborhood in awhile, get out and take a walk. You'll be surprised at the sights you'll see and enjoy that you've been missing all this time.
What a wonderful town Portsmouth is, and how fortunate I am to be able to live here and call the "Port City" of Portsmouth New Hampshire home.
I love living here, and if you're interested in making Portsmouth your new home, I'd love to show off all her attributes and to help you find your special home here. You'll love it here as much as I do!
Come to visit - come to STAY because you'll want to make Portsmouth New Hampshire YOUR home!
Once you're here, this area just makes you fall in love with it, and this just helps to make my job that much more enjoyable!
Are you thinking about making Portsmouth New Hampshire your home? Call me today at 603-431-1111 x 3839, or send me an email, and let's talk real estate!
Ann Cummings, New Hampshire REALTOR
RE/MAX Coast to Coast
Portsmouth NH
ann@anncummings.com
888-349-5678 x 3839
Servicing the Coastal Areas of NH & Southern Maine
Living here in Portsmouth NH is really terrific! We live along the beautiful 17 mile coast of the Atlantic Oceen, we have bodies of water all around us, our great highways can get us into Boston or Portland Maine in under an hour, the mountains are a quick drive away, and we have all kinds of things to do right here in the "Port City" of Portsmouth!
One of the things that the local residents and visitors alike love is our park along the waterfront - Prescott Park. The flowers and plants here are simply beyond description, and must be seen in person to fully appreciate just how beautiful they are. What a gorgeous place to while away the time with friends and family, or simply for some time by yourself among wonderful surroundings.
Another part of Prescott Park is the outdoor theater area. All summer long, we get to enjoy plays, concerts, art shows, children's festivities, food cookoffs, and much more.
Pack a picnic basket, bring some chairs, lay down some blankets to sit, and enjoy the great offerings those who call Portsmouth NH home have the great pleasure to enjoy on a daily basis each summer.
If you're thinking about making Portsmouth NH your home, or if you're looking for a vacation home or second home, we've got plenty of real estate housing choices - from wonderful homes in a variety of price ranges to condos of all types and price ranges as well. Looking for income property? We offer some great options for that type of Portsmouth real estate as well.
Portsmouth New Hampshire is just an AWESOME place to call HOME!!
Are you looking to buy condos or homes in the Portsmouth New Hampshire area?
If so, send me an email or give me a call - I'd love to help you find just the right home for you!
To view other local Seacoast Scenes, check out these posts:
Ann Cummings, New Hampshire and Maine REALTOR
RE/MAX Coast to Coast
Portsmouth NH
ann@anncummings.com
888-349-5678 x 3839
Servicing the Coastal Areas of NH & Southern Maine
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Let me put my years of experience here in the coastal areas of NH & southern Maine to work for YOU! Servicing the greater Portsmouth, Hampton, Exeter, Dover, NH areas & the southern tip of Maine.
Welcome, and thanks for checking out my site! I LOVE what I do, and that's helping buyers & sellers in the coastal areas of New Hampshire & southeastern Maine. I've been doing so for the last 25+ years, full-time right here, so I've really gotten to know the Portsmouth New Hampshire market thoroughly, and have seen many changes over that time. The one thing that doesn't change, however, is the dream to own one's home. I believe that those who truly want to own their own home should be able to, and that's what I'm all about.....helping those who want their own piece of that dream!!
I grew up in the Air Force, moving all about the country, and having to adapt to the changes each move brought. Because of that, I know first hand what it's like to pick up and move. It's not always easy, nor is it always a move someone really wants. I work hard to ensure each move and home purchase/sale is as smooth and pleasant as it can be. Moving and the home buying/selling process is stressful, and my goal is to take some of that stress away.
To make sure I continually offer the best real estate service I can, I always make it a point to attend educational sessions, and I'm very active in the REALTOR organization. I've earned several designations and certifications through my on-going education: GRI (Graduate REALTORS Institute-a comprehensive educational program that provides additional education above that needed to earn a real estate license); CBR (Certified Buyer Representative-this is a comprehensive training course with extensive education regarding representation of buyers in the home-buying process); REALTOR (member of the National Association of REALTORS - subscribing to a strict Code of Ethics in all real estate dealings); e-PRO (training course that provides extensive educational on working with internet-empowered consumers). I'm presently working on several others as well.
Within the REALTOR organization, I've been very active, and I work very hard to promote what we, as REALTORS, stand for......the protection of private property rights and the right to enjoy it. I serve on various committees on my local level, as well as at the state level and the national level. I've served as President of the NH Association of REALTORS, and I've been given the great honor of being chosen "State REALTOR of the Year" for the NH Association of REALTORS.
I LOVE what I do, both for buyers & sellers, and for REALTORS throughout my organization! 
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My professional concentration is on residential real estate - single family homes, condos, mobile homes & manufactured homes, multi-family homes, and land - and I focus primarily on the coastal area of New Hampshire (Portsmouth, Rye, Hampton, Exeter, Stratham, Greenland, Dover, Durham, Rochester & surrounding areas) and the southeastern corner of Maine (Kittery, Eliot, York, South Berwick, Berwick, North Berwick, and surrounding areas). I'm a licensed Broker in both New Hampshire and Maine, and I've been licensed since 1981.
My goal is to help educate each of my clients - buyers & sellers - on the New Hampshire & Maine real estate market and on what's needed to help them achieve their real estate goals, whether buying or selling. The price ranges in my market can run from $100,000 to $12,000,000, and I work hard to help each client make the best and most-informed decision they can about their real estate purchase or sale.
I'm a big proponent of using today's technology to make the process the best it can be for all involved. I have an abundance of area information on my websites, and I encourage you to visit them for all kinds of helpful and useful information. www.AnnCummings.com and www.PortsmouthNewHampshireHomes.com will provide you with great information to help you learn about this wonderful area I love calling HOME!! And while you're visiting my websites, be sure to check out properties available throughout NH & Maine, as well as parts of Vermont and Massachusetts. Let me know how I can be of assistance to you with your real estate needs! I'm here to help YOU!!
With me on your side, you get FULL-TIME professional service with a personal touch....."Service with a Smile" ;-))
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"Ann, I just wanted to thank you for all your hard work on selling my condo! You are TOP NOTCH, and I will continue to refer you. I know you love your job as the passion radiates around you! I felt very lucky to have you on my side. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! Kim Z., Newmarket/Exeter
"EVERYTHING went so smoothly during our sale! We just had some champagne and toasted to how happy we are now and will be for years to come. Thank you SO much for everything you did! You have made this such a great experience for both of us. We would love to have you and your fiance' over for dinner once we are unpacked." Sara & Phelps, South Berwick
"Thanks again for all the help, support, advice, and guidance you've provided over the past six (!) months This was a massive undertaking for me, and I count myself very lucky that I happened to hook up with someone who offers so much professionalism and experience, not to mention patience." Barb
"I just wanted to thank you for ALL of your help in finding me my new home! I am absolutely loving it!! Thanks so much for everything!!! " Audrey, Greenland
"Ann, thanks for your honest, straight-forward, professional service. It was refreshing and greatly appreciated!" Jo S., Dover
"Jen and I would like to thank you for making this process such a pleasant one! We both enjoyed and appreciated your company and professional advice. We are very pleased with our purchase and look forward to working with you again in the near future. Thank you again!!" Andy & Jen, Japan
"Thank you so much for ALL your help and for the time you spent with me looking for a house! I appreciate all that you did for me, and when I am ready again, it would be an honor to have you as my real estate agent again!" Fadi, Durham
"Dear Ann--what a gorgeous plant! I can't thank you enough for it, but mostly I thank you for making my dream come true!! I LOVE this house & it's wonderful "bones". Thank you for such a smooth transition when you sold my condo and then found me this house! You do such a great job, and I wish you all the very best!! I wouldn't think of using any other agent but YOU!!! " Pam, Kittery
"Thank you SO MUCH for making our homebuying process as smooth as possible. We appreciate the time and attention you've given to our questions and concerns, whether it was by email or phone. We'd certainly recommend you to our friends and family. And when it comes time, we'll definitely be repeat customers!!" Cory & Amy, Portsmouth
"Thank you for helping Liz and I buy this wonderful home! Every day we come home, it feels FANTASTIC!! Thank you so much!! You'll be the first person we recommend to anyone if they are looking for a home to buy or sell." George & Liz, Brentwood
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