Starting again, it is always good to get your bearings. My bearings. I was getting my hair done at Carlo's today and ran into a fellow Realtor. She asked me about Skaneateles and how things were going this year. Thank goodness I had done the statistics yesterday, because I could rattle off the numbers. Now you will be able to, also.
There are currently 150 active listings in the Skaneateles area of the multiple listing service. Of these, 45 are in the village.
Under contract, there are a total of 8 single family homes. Five can still be shown, while three are so solid that the owners feel they do not need to be shown any more. At least, that is the presumption. We all know that (all together now) - "It's not closed until it's closed!" And lately even that's under dispute!
Five others are pended, which generally means that the mortgage commitment has come in and only the attorney issues - title and such - need to be completed.
This year to date 48 properties have closed. This compares with last year's 46 by this date. The year before a whopping 59 were done. Of course, that makes up for the previous 2008 of only 32 (ouch!) Average those two years and you find 45/46 as the midpoint, oddly similar to 2010 and 2011.
The update is back and will be found on your computer next week about this time! Thank you for your patience!
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The Second Twenty
I will save the total number of closings we have had in the past few months, but suffice it to say everyone has been busy and the numbers are there to prove it! The First Twenty closings took until June 27th - the Second Twenty go through only August 9th.
In no particular order:
4001 State Street Road - $290,000
4054 County Line Road - $367,000
3766 Highland Avenue - $311,500
1569 New Seneca Turnpike - $190,000
790 Stump Road - $138,000
1930 Stump Road - $210,000
1025 The Lane - $550,000
140 East Genesee Street - $3,500,000
20 East Lake Street - $215,000
2997 Nunnery Road - $154,900
3829 Knightsbridge Road - $196,000
28 Orchard Road - $250,000
3907 State Street Road - $430,000
49 Academy Street - $545,500
3901 State Street Road - $445,000
3657 Fisher Road - $164,900
3319 East Lake Road - $507,500
3426 East Lake Road - $135,000
1618 Stump Road - $220,000
3065 East Lake Road - $750,000
In no particular order:
4001 State Street Road - $290,000
4054 County Line Road - $367,000
3766 Highland Avenue - $311,500
1569 New Seneca Turnpike - $190,000
790 Stump Road - $138,000
1930 Stump Road - $210,000
1025 The Lane - $550,000
140 East Genesee Street - $3,500,000
20 East Lake Street - $215,000
2997 Nunnery Road - $154,900
3829 Knightsbridge Road - $196,000
28 Orchard Road - $250,000
3907 State Street Road - $430,000
49 Academy Street - $545,500
3901 State Street Road - $445,000
3657 Fisher Road - $164,900
3319 East Lake Road - $507,500
3426 East Lake Road - $135,000
1618 Stump Road - $220,000
3065 East Lake Road - $750,000
Back on Track
The colder weather has sent me to the computer and away from the outdoors. It has been a fantastic and busy summer, but the natural rhythm takes over. I no longer teach, but I feel the pull to be indoors and working, rather than running around in the car or hanging out with my iPhone on the deck. I wanted to not miss this summer - and I didn't. We spent more time at the lake and I have the tan to show it. It also helps to have had a listing out there, but now that it's sold........
So slowly I will ease back into writing and providing updates. The bi-weekly update gave me way too much space - I need a solid date or time, and not writing is so much easier than writing. Also the stretch of time makes it too long between reporting - it is ancient history by the time it hits my blog and that is never a good thing!
Until the end of the year, the update will be weekly and completed by Wednesday - might come in early on Tuesday, but will certainly be there by mid-week, when my ads are due. A little structure has never hurt me, and will help. Monitor and adjust!
So slowly I will ease back into writing and providing updates. The bi-weekly update gave me way too much space - I need a solid date or time, and not writing is so much easier than writing. Also the stretch of time makes it too long between reporting - it is ancient history by the time it hits my blog and that is never a good thing!
Until the end of the year, the update will be weekly and completed by Wednesday - might come in early on Tuesday, but will certainly be there by mid-week, when my ads are due. A little structure has never hurt me, and will help. Monitor and adjust!
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
The Update - A Lot Late
But we will play catch-up.
I must say that really only the blog has suffered due to Liam's birth. I never thought I would be so consumed but I am. I still managed to find time to sell, buy and close properties with my clients in the last few weeks - just not the time to write about them.
So - since I did the research and then got interrupted by The Call to go to Manhattan "now!" I will start with what I pulled together. This is the second half of the update - what sold and closed between (gulp!) June 16th and July 13th in Skaneateles.
Two new properties were marked contingent, both larger village homes bringing the number of contingent properties to 7 in all. "Under contract but do not show any more" is a tiny waterfront - can't wait to know what it did actually sell for! There are 12 pending - a larger waterfront is new to this list.
What has closed is the most interesting part of this update. As of July 13th, there were 29 closed single family homes in the Skaneateles area. Eight - wow! - were new. Four were listed and sold under $200,000. A fifth home was a mid-range waterfront property that dropped its price to accommodate a sale - something that has been happening a bit these days. Two other newer homes just outside the village both sold in the mid-$400,000. And then there's The Big One, closing for 3 million dollars, right on the water with acreage in the village. Congratulations to the new owners!
So slowly we will get back to a new normal. Slowly. Patience, I am told, is a virtue.
I must say that really only the blog has suffered due to Liam's birth. I never thought I would be so consumed but I am. I still managed to find time to sell, buy and close properties with my clients in the last few weeks - just not the time to write about them.
So - since I did the research and then got interrupted by The Call to go to Manhattan "now!" I will start with what I pulled together. This is the second half of the update - what sold and closed between (gulp!) June 16th and July 13th in Skaneateles.
Two new properties were marked contingent, both larger village homes bringing the number of contingent properties to 7 in all. "Under contract but do not show any more" is a tiny waterfront - can't wait to know what it did actually sell for! There are 12 pending - a larger waterfront is new to this list.
What has closed is the most interesting part of this update. As of July 13th, there were 29 closed single family homes in the Skaneateles area. Eight - wow! - were new. Four were listed and sold under $200,000. A fifth home was a mid-range waterfront property that dropped its price to accommodate a sale - something that has been happening a bit these days. Two other newer homes just outside the village both sold in the mid-$400,000. And then there's The Big One, closing for 3 million dollars, right on the water with acreage in the village. Congratulations to the new owners!
So slowly we will get back to a new normal. Slowly. Patience, I am told, is a virtue.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Our News
We welcome to our family Liam Jude Brooks-Barr born the morning of July 15th in Manhattan to Alex and Rachel. He is our first grandbaby - and what a beautiful baby he is! He weighed 8 lbs, 3 oz and has gained an ounce over the past day. He was 22 inches, just an inch shorter than Alex was when he was born in Seattle. Both were born under the full moon.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
"You are Never Old, Until Regrets take the Place of Dreams"
So I have fallen down on my writing. I could claim busy-ness, and I certainly have been. Over the weekend I was gone both days from before 8:30 to about 8:00 at night. I keep returning exhausted, but when houses are selling one goes with the flow. Because the spigot can be turned off, as quickly as our pond drained a week ago. "Fish" was left high and dry - literally - but I rescued him and gave him a whole new world in my in-laws' pond....what a fish story!
The reality is that about a month ago I was speaking with an agent who said I should be careful, that in writing about homes I am in danger of violating a listing agreement. In our contracts we present to the owners they have the right - and all do - to say they do not want third party comments about their homes. It's a new clause, and I routinely check it. But she said that I was walking a thin line with this blog.
Now, for the most part I am complimentary, and I do not identify homes or properties unless they are my listings. The agent agreed that I was careful - she reads my blog, as do other Realtors - but she put that seed of doubt in my head. Where it stayed. And grew a bit, so that when I did have time to sit down I chose not to write. It wasn't a fear as much as a lessening of desire to write. It had stopped being fun. I had to worry about being censored by the Board. It takes the fun out of writing, especially my style of conversational, stream of consciousness with little editing, style of writing.
Yesterday a story appeared in the Post-Standard (and you can go on-line to read it at http://www.syracuse.com/ under Health and Fitness) written by Kathleen Poliquin about a young woman who gave birth to a baby 8 months ago and endured incredible medical hardships, but will compete in a Triathlon this summer. Amazing. Her belief system contains the following sentence: "The biggest consequence of fear is missed opportunities."
So I am banishing fear and pushing ahead. If agents or sellers recognize their homes and do not like what I wrote, please tell me. I will be conscious and conscientious, but I want to write this blog.
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The reality is that about a month ago I was speaking with an agent who said I should be careful, that in writing about homes I am in danger of violating a listing agreement. In our contracts we present to the owners they have the right - and all do - to say they do not want third party comments about their homes. It's a new clause, and I routinely check it. But she said that I was walking a thin line with this blog.
Now, for the most part I am complimentary, and I do not identify homes or properties unless they are my listings. The agent agreed that I was careful - she reads my blog, as do other Realtors - but she put that seed of doubt in my head. Where it stayed. And grew a bit, so that when I did have time to sit down I chose not to write. It wasn't a fear as much as a lessening of desire to write. It had stopped being fun. I had to worry about being censored by the Board. It takes the fun out of writing, especially my style of conversational, stream of consciousness with little editing, style of writing.
Yesterday a story appeared in the Post-Standard (and you can go on-line to read it at http://www.syracuse.com/ under Health and Fitness) written by Kathleen Poliquin about a young woman who gave birth to a baby 8 months ago and endured incredible medical hardships, but will compete in a Triathlon this summer. Amazing. Her belief system contains the following sentence: "The biggest consequence of fear is missed opportunities."
So I am banishing fear and pushing ahead. If agents or sellers recognize their homes and do not like what I wrote, please tell me. I will be conscious and conscientious, but I want to write this blog.
Today I read that an old friend had passed away. He was a writer, a professional writer. So this blog is for you, Nick!
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Skaneateles Real Estate - The Bi-Monthly Update (sort of)
Welcome to the Third of July - the day that is second only to Christmas Eve in my family. This is the day when flares are lit around the lakes and the celebration for the Fourth of July begins. Salt potatoes are the starch du jour, Bob's watermelon-shrimp-avocado dish takes center stage, and the world is magical for one glorious summer evening.
So if you are thinking of moving to Skaneateles, or moving around within the Skaneateles area - please consider these new listings. In the village you could move to a lovely stucco home now on the market in the mid-$300,000 range or go smaller up the street for a granited kitchen in the mid-$200,000.
Ten new ones, that should make, with three in the village. All the listings together in the area equal 145 - so you have 145 opportunities to live in Skaneateles which on this Fourth of July weekend is jumping.
So if you are thinking of moving to Skaneateles, or moving around within the Skaneateles area - please consider these new listings. In the village you could move to a lovely stucco home now on the market in the mid-$300,000 range or go smaller up the street for a granited kitchen in the mid-$200,000.
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| 4519 Jordan Road |
If you want to put in some work, you could buy the little one we just listed (see photo) for $39,900 in the Falls - it is gutted and ready for you. Or the unfinished 4,000sf home now listed in the mid-$200,000 just outside on the east. Remodeled and done on five acres - there's a new one for just over $300,000. If you want gorgeous on more than five acres, look to one listed at just over $500,000. Only one waterfront came on these past two weeks - but the location is superb and the price under a million. For relatively new construction, go beyond Skaneateles' borders but within the school district to one priced to sell under $400,000. Or go down the lake for about $200,000 and I think a view. And a small one right in the village was re-listed, and that was also remodeled but priced in the mid $100,000 range.
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