About Florence County, SC

Beautiful Home in Desirable Monticello Subdivision! Breathtaking Entrance with High Cathedral Ceilings and Pool View - Greatroom is Open to the Kitchen - Downstairs Master Suite with His/Her Closets, Ceramic Tile Bath and a Private Screened Porch - 2nd Screened Porch is off the Greatroom - Screened Porches Lead Directly to the Deck - Walk-In Attic with 2 Access Areas - Sprinkler System - Beautiful In Ground 18x35 Pool - MUST SEE TO APPRECIATE! Great area Great schools what else could you want!

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New listing on 1318 Madison Ave., in Florence,SC. Lovely Ranch Home on Madison Avenue! +/-2829SF, 4BR, 3Bth with an Extra Large Master Suite with Sitting Area "1000 sq ft", Double Vanity, Claw Foot Tub and Double Head Marble Shower - Lots of Closet Space, Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen with Breakfast Nook, Newly Refinished Hardwood Floors Throughout - Big Double Fenced In Yard with Koi Pond, Large Deck and Back Porch off Master - Room For Kids and Dogs - Zoned For Royall Elementary, Sneed Middle School and West Florence High School - This is a MUST SEE!

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Have you ever stopped to consider the irony of it all? When the housing market was hot with escalading hosing prices, buyers couldn't wait to jump on board. With multiple offers coming in, buyers were willing to pay above asking price to get the home of their choice. When it's a buyer's market with deals galore out there, buyers go into hibernation. Go figure! In a seller's market, buyers fall all over themselves to make a deal. In a buyer's market, sellers just don't seem to be able to give their homes away.

Buyers, take a good look at what the market has done and is doing over the past five years in the Greater Florence Region of South Carolina. True, this year's housing market is the worst of the five but it isn't that far off from 2004 sales. What makes it look so much worse is the number of homes on the market. They have been going up steadily over the past five years and until 2007, sales were keeping up pretty well with the listings. In 2008, however, listings spiked by nearly 20% while sales decreased by 23% year over year. That has created a 9.8 month inventory in the local housing market, which should be a buyer's delight. So, where are the buyers?

To really understand what's happening in the Florence housing market, take a look at my last blog titled Lets Make Some Money! I have a chart there that illustrates the monthly ratio between listings and sales for 2008. Those figures point toward a possible bottoming out of the slumping housing market. Spring will let us know for sure. But here's the problem. The best deals for buyers are before the market turns, not after. If you're a serious home buyer but taking a "wait and see" attitude, you're going to be looking back at the bottom instead of buying into it. That'll cost you a lot of money!

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"It's a buyer's market! It's a buyer's market! It's a buyer's market!" It doesn't seem to matter how loud or often we shout it out, there still aren't many buyers. But if you have been thinking about buying a new home in Florence South Carolina or the Greater Pee Dee Region of South Carolina, this is one of the best buying opportunities in the past 50 years. As you can tell from the 2008 market summary chart I prepared, there are some very interesting patterns beginning to develop that suggest it's time for buyers to get off the sidelines and take advantage of market conditions.

The first thing I want you to notice is that the widest gap between homes listed and homes sold in the Greater Florence market was last April. At that time there was well over a full year's inventory homes, which clearly shifted negotiation leverage to the buyer. For many reasons (the decrease in new construction inventory being one), we may not see that wide of an inventory gap during this downturn again.

Secondly, notice how the gap has narrowed and begun to stabilize, signaling a potential bottom in the housing market. Currently there is a 9.8 month inventory to choose from. If that figure holds through Spring (when most new sellers enter the market place), then I will be more optimistic about the beginning of a housing recovery in 2009. If that happens while you are sitting on the sidelines, you will watch the best buying opportunities pass you by.

There is an old saying in real estate that says, "You make money when you buy a house not when you sell it." The savviest of buyers are making money now! By the way, if you want to take advantage of current market dynamics to purchase a newly construction home, you better not wait too much longer. This inventory is steadily shrinking as fewer and fewer builders pull new housing permits. Your best opportunity to make money here will be over the next six months.

For more information about the Florence housing market, go to my blog titled Florence Market Looks Good for Buyers. In this blog you'll find a chart of month to month ratios between listings and sales in our area.

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In this blog post I would like to spotligh some of the services at McLeod Regional Hospital in Florence, South Carolina. I think you'll find the article introductions interesting and will want to click on the links to see the full article. While on the McLeod site, feel frre to navigate and survey their many services. You'll soon learn why McLeod is so highly rated.

The Cutting Edge of Radiation Therapy Delivery -- McLeod continues to be a forerunner in South Carolina with the most technically advanced equipment in the state. For current cancer patients and future patients, McLeod Regional Medical Center announced in 2003 the availability of a new cancer treatment system, which delivers very precise radiation to cancerous tumors without harming healthy tissue or organs near the tumor. Treating cancer patients in the Pee Dee with this technology places McLeod in the forefront with a number of hospitals on the "cutting edge" of radiation therapy delivery.

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Best Home Care You Will Have -- McLeod Home Health provides quality health care for patients outside a hospital setting who require extended care after being released from the hospital. McLeod Home Health has assembled a team of skilled health care professionals, such as nurses, physical and occupational therapists, and social workers, to address each patient's individualized care plan.

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McLeod Center for Advanced Surgery -- Technology and the people come together in the McLeod Center for Advanced Surgery and its OR of Tomorrow. These fully digital surgical suites are designed to create a virtual cockpit for the doctor, enabling control of all devices, access to images and information, and ?virtual' consultation using the Internet, with colleagues down the hall, or across the country. McLeod is partnering with two leaders in the surgical equipment industry -- Getinge and Storz. The first of these surgical suites will be open next spring. Additional suites will open in 2006. But what is "Advanced Surgery"? It generally encompasses one of four areas: Minimally Invasive Surgery, Interventional Radiology, Surgical Navigation and Robotics

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