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Strafford County, NH - Real Estate Market Update 11

Real Estate Market Update -Update 11 For January 8-14, 2008
Strafford County, New Hampshire

Single Family Homes

  • Total Listings Available 742 (Last Week 741)
  • Price Range $29,900-$2,750,000
  • Total New Listings This Week 31 (Last Week 24)
  • Price Range $99,900-$549,900
  • Total Pending This Week 15 (Last Week 3)
  • Total Withdrawn This Week 13 (Last Week 13)
  • Total Expired This Week 0 (Last Week 20)
  • Total Sold This Week 4 (Last Week 3)

Condos

  • Total Listings Available 176 (Last Week 173)
  • Price Range $55,000-$399,000
  • Total New Listings This Week 9 (Last Week 8)
  • Price Range $92,000-$345,000
  • Total Pending This Week 4 (Last Week 3)
  • Total Withdrawn This Week 2 (Last Week 4)
  • Total Expired This Week 8 (Last Week 9)
  • Total Sold This Week 1 (Last Week 0)

This information for Rockingham and Strafford counties is compiled through NNEREN, Northern New England Real Estate Network for the period listed. Information is deemed reliable but not infallible.

Shannon Aldrich, Keller Williams Coastal Realty Portsmouth, NH

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Rockingham County, NH - Real Estate Market Update 11

Real Estate Market Update -Update 11 For January 8-14, 2008
Rockingham County, New Hampshire

Single Family Homes

  • Total Listings Available 1,912 (Last Week 1,907)
  • Price Range $89,900-$9,500,000
  • Total New Listings This Week 71 (Last Week 55)
  • Price Range $169,900-$1,250,000
  • Total Pending This Week 38 (Last Week 23)
  • Total Withdrawn This Week 23 (Last Week 24)
  • Total Expired This Week 57 (Last Week 45)
  • Total Sold This Week 18 (Last Week 12)

Condos

  • Total Listings Available 896 (Last Week 867)
  • Price Range $60,000-$1,337,000
  • Total New Listings This Week 36 (Last Week 18)
  • Price Range $89,900-$739,900
  • Total Pending This Week 12 (Last Week 4)
  • Total Withdrawn This Week 4 (Last Week 10)
  • Total Expired This Week 35 (Last Week 27)
  • Total Sold This Week 9 (Last Week 5)

This information for Rockingham and Strafford counties is compiled through NNEREN, Northern New England Real Estate Network for the period listed. Information is deemed reliable but not infallible.

Shannon Aldrich, Keller Williams Coastal Realty Portsmouth, NH

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1st Place Winner - Cottage on Snowflake Lane!!

Cottage on Snowflake Lane

I am ecstatic to announce "Cottage on Snowflake Lane" won first place at the 2007 Strawbery Banke Candlelight Stroll Gingerbread House contest! I just received the certificate in today's mail along with a nice gift certificate to Sunday Brunch at the Sheraton Harborside. My niece Clara and I were not even able to attend the Stroll this year and vote due to holiday scheduling. Sorry I do not have pics of all the winners. What a terrific surprise for a rainy Friday morning. Thank you to anyone who did get the chance to attend and voted for our ode to blue candy. The cottage was taken to a local nursing home after the event to be on display through Christmas.

This was a record setting year with 43 gingerbread entries to the contest. The list of ideas was endless from the Portsmouth Harbor skyline to a tree house to a gingerbread wedding. Candy is really a fascinating building material. Brings out so many creative ideas.

Adult & Adult Group Category

First Place: Portsmouth Harbor Skyline - The Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Realtors Group

"Only a group of Realtors could have made such a faithful recreation of Portsmouth's Market Street harbor, complete with salt piles, restaurants, Bow Street decks, townhouses, cars and people. They even provided a quiz to challenge viewers to locate each and every special feature of this astounding creation"

Second Place: Santa's Vacation Motor Home - Kathy J Brown, Methuen, MA

"Santa needs a break too! This entry was a very close second place. Visitors loved peeking through the windshield and side windows of this beautifully made gingerbread RV, and were rewarded by seeing a fully furnished, lantern-lit interior featuring kitchenette, sleeping area, driver's seat, and more Santa greeted guests under the canvas striped awning and seemed to be enjoying his vacation"

Third Place: Tree House - Jenny Isler and Julie Marvin

"This feat of engineering was possibly the most imaginative house of this year's collection. The multi-level gingerbread house was nestled amongst the twigs of a tall natural branch. Lights illuminated a carousel-shaped main house and a quit sleeping house in the clouds. Plenty of outdoorsy details like a rope swing and rope ladder completed the theme, and a chocolate moose wandered beneath the tree."

Professional Category

First Place: One Foggy Christmas Eve - Margot Doering, Martin Hill Inn

"Santa's sleigh is pulled through the fog by the red-nosed tug "Rudy" underneath Memorial Bridge. The bridge was shown in the raised position, no easy feat of gingerbread architecture!"

Youth Group Category

First Place: Gingerbread Barn for the Birds - Nature's Wonders early childhood program

"This charming entry included a barn, windmill and silo-all made of bird treats like millet, sunflower seed and peanut butter. After the display the house will really be "for the birds" as it is placed outdoors to attract winter feeders.

Second Place: Gingerbread Wedding - Ashley Seedy & Girl Scouts of Maine Cadette Troop #1464

"A crowd of gingerbread friends and family gather to watch a wintry wedding. The creative theme appealed to many"

Third Place: Winter Wonderland - Kelly Bridge, Andrea Lane & Brianne Ryan of Girl Scout Troop 229, Berwick Maine

"A large snowy scene full of activity"

Youth and Family Category

First Place: Cottage on Snowflake Lane - Shannon Aldrich, Clara Patience & Carolyn Spencer

"A neat and trim cottage that made excellent use of bright, icy-blue candies. The unusual color and careful execution of this house caught lots of attention. Lots of individually laid shingles and pavers gave it wonderful detail!"

Second Place: It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas (Bring Out the Lights!) by Hanz, Olivia, Ginger and Zak Berger

"This sizeable house was brought to life by the realistic theme of decorating for Christmas! A man teeters atop a ladder, hanging lights along the second floor roofline."

Third Place: Busy Beaver by Lilly Dissette (age 6)

"This sight of a little brown beaver tending to its cozy winter home charmed many viewers. A warm light glowed inside the beaver lodge, made convincingly of candy, pretzels and cereals to look like real twigs and branches."

Shannon Aldrich, Keller Williams Coastal Realty

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Southern Maine Real Estate Market Update 1

Southern Maine Real Estate Market

Update 1 Week of January 1-7

Kittery

  • Number of single family homes/condos on the market 110
  • Price Range $124,900-$5,500,000
  • New Listings this week 4
  • Pending Contracts 13
  • Sold this week 0

Eliot

  • Number of single family homes/condos on the market 51
  • Price Range $84,900-$3,500,000
  • New Listings this week 1
  • Pending Contracts 3
  • Sold this week 1

York

  • Number of single family homes/condos on the market 230
  • Price Range $124,900-$8,950,000
  • New Listings this week 5
  • Pending Contracts 19
  • Sold this week 0

South Berwick

  • Number of single family homes/condos on the market 47
  • Price Range $118,900-$499,000
  • New Listings this week 2
  • Pending Contracts 2
  • Sold this week 2

North Berwick

  • Number of single family homes/condos on the market 41
  • Price Range $94,900-$1,200,000
  • New Listings this week 0
  • Pending Contracts 5
  • Sold this week 0

Berwick

  • Number of single family homes/condos on the market 52
  • Price Range $100,000-$625,000
  • New Listings this week 2
  • Pending Contracts 7
  • Sold this week 0

Data for this report has been collected from MREIS, the Maine Multiple Listing Service it is deemed to be reliable but not infalliable.

Shannon Aldrich, Keller Williams Coastal Realty

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Strafford County, NH Real Estate Market Update 10

Real Estate Market Update -Update 10 For January 1-7, 2008
Strafford County, New Hampshire

Single Family Homes

  • Total Listings Available 741
  • Price Range $29,900-$2,750,000
  • Total New Listings This Week 24
  • Price Range $139,900-$595,000
  • Total Pending This Week 3
  • Total Withdrawn This Week 13
  • Total Expired This Week 20
  • Total Sold This Week 3

Condos

  • Total Listings Available 173
  • Price Range $59,900-$399,000
  • Total New Listings This Week 8
  • Price Range $91,000-$214,000
  • Total Pending This Week 3
  • Total Withdrawn This Week 4
  • Total Expired This Week 9
  • Total Sold This Week 0

This information for Rockingham and Strafford counties is compiled through NNEREN, Northern New England Real Estate Network for the period listed. Information is deemed reliable but not infallible.

Shannon Aldrich, Keller Williams Coastal Realty Portsmouth, NH

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