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Calaveras County / Lake Tulloch Area Real Estate Market Facts

I promised you some Calaveras County Real Estate statistics soon. Well, here you go with the latest market facts below in four clickable graphs. As usual, the first three graphs cover the years 2006, 2007 and 2008 through today. The first graph spells out the Residential Unit Sales. The second graph highlights Residential Sales Volume. And the third graph shows Residential Average Sales Price. And finally the fourth graph focuses on the price range breakdown of Residential Units Sold through the end of Octover 2008. Before you click on the graphs, here are some of the numbers in simple black and white...

Total Residential Unit Sales: Oct 2008 = 70 Oct 2007 = 66 Jan-Oct 2008 = 550 Jan-Oct 2007 = 632

Total Residential Sales Volume: Oct 2008 = $21,288,277 Oct 2007 = $30,170,874 Oct 2006 = $42,553,581

Total Residential Sales Volume: Jan-Oct 2008 = $190,204,171 Jan-Oct 2007 = $278,901,595 Jan-Oct 2006 = $359,649,219

For more market information and help with buying or selling, contact your Sugar Pine Realty Lake Tulloch / Copperopolis real estate professional today. Call 209-785-5757. (The data used in this post comes from the Calaveras Multiple Listing Service and is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.)





So Where Did the Coffee Go? (Part 1)

(This post is meant for Sugar Pine Realty agents serving the Mother Lode of California).

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Have you ever gone to the grocery store to buy, let's just say, a can of Folger's Decaf, and when you got to the aisle where the coffee's supposed to be, it wasn't there, it was moved? It might feel like that for some of you who visit the Sugar Pine Realty blog. In case you haven't noticed, it has gone through a sort of metamorphosis over the past couple of weeks from two columns to three columns, for one thing. But beyond that, there have been a number of new links added as well as many of the old links have either been moved or deleted. And so today I want to fill you in on where the "Folger's Decaf" has gone when it comes to the Sugar Pine Realty blog. And maybe along with that I can point out some of the bells and whistles that the Sugar Pine Realty blog affords especially Sugar Pine Realty agents. The first thing I want you to notice is the Home of the Week which is always found in the right sidebar near the top of the blog. (See the clickable thumbnail on the right.) Of course, this rotates weekly and if you would like any or all of your listings to rotate here, please don't hesitate to let me know. I'll be happy to move you up to the top of the list. The second thing I want you to notice is right below the Home of the Week. (See clickable thumbnail on the above right again.) It's a graph from compete.com measuring the unique visitors per month to sugarpinerealty.com. The definition of a unique visitor (as compete.com has it on their site) is this: "The Unique Visitors metric only counts a person once no matter how many times they visit a site in a given month. Unique Visitors are typically used to determine how popular a site is." The third and final thing I want you to notice - if you page down in the right sidebar (I counted 7 times on my page down button) you'll discover a section entitled: Market Your Listings. (See also the clickable thumbnail on the above left.) Here you'll find a number of sites where you can promote each of your listed properties. And most of these sites are for free! Check it out - from free podcasting (Odiogo) to free flyers (vFlyer) to free videos (Animoto), etc. It's a no-brainer in a challenging market. That does it for today. I'll be back soon with another installment of "So Where Did the Coffee Go?" (This is the first part in a series reintroducing the Sugar Pine Realty blog.)

October Mother Lode Sales Numbers

The final Mother Lode market numbers for October 2008 compared to October 2007 are in: CLICK HERE. Along with that you'll find the year-to-year comparison for nine months (Jan-Oct) of 2008 versus nine months (Jan-Oct) of 2007: CLICK HERE. You'll also notice the graphs including the Mother Lode Residential Unit Sales through October 2008 graph versus the previous five years (clickable picture 1 on the above left) along with the Mother Lode Residential Volume Sales graph versus the previous five years (clickable picture 2 on the right) and the Mother Lode Residential Average Sales Price graph versus the previous five years (clickable picture 3 on the left), respectively. (The data used comes from the Tuolumne Multiple Listing Service and is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.) As usual, I also have some of the numbers in black and white here:

UNIT SALES: Oct 08 = 48; Oct 07 = 40; +20%

VOL SALES: Oct 08 = $13,575,200; Oct 07 = $13,705,180; -1%

AVG SALES PRICE: Oct 08 = $282,816; Oct 07 = $342,629; -17%

Watch for Calaveras MLS stats to be posted soon.

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Podcasting Comes to Sugar Pine Realty in the Mother Lode!

I'm excited to introduce you today to a brand new feature on the Sugar Pine Realty blog (http://www.sugarpinerealty.blogspot.com). You are now able to listen to each and every one of the Sugar Pine Realty blog posts. Not only that, you can also download each "audio" blog post/podcast to the listening device of your choice (including your iPod or mp3 player - even your mobile phone!). To listen to this blog post that you're reading, visit http://www.sugarpinerealty.blogspot.com/2008/10/audio-blogging.html, then just click on the "listen now" button right below the title of the blog post. This will open a player that will in turn play the entire text using a computer-generated, nearly human voice. This new text-to-speech conversion technology has been available by Odiogo. (Visit their site when you get a chance.) Of course, there are many benefits to this new technology for real estate agents and real estate bloggers in particular. For one thing, a whole new audience has now been made much more easily accessible to receive real estate information online (the podcast audience!). Thank you, Odiogo!
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