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Old 09-24-2016, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by graciegirl View Post
...The Villages sold ten percent of all U.S. Real Estate sold during the past down season when real estate was stagnant all across the land.. New customers are generally assigned to the Villages Agents unless the client asks for one particularly. Being aggressive and persistent is discouraged. They don't have to be aggressive or persistent, they just need to be low key and available. They are wonderful and don't call you back unless you ask them to.
I remember reading something like that, but it wasn't 10%. The ten percent seems really high when you consider the entire US. From what I could find, there are about 650,000 to 700,000 new homes built each year, so 10% would be 65,000 built in a year, that's more homes than in the entire Villages. The best I could find was in 2011 The Villages built about 1% of all new homes. They had been averaging about 2,000 new homes a year in the Brownwood area, and 1% meant that a down year was probably only about 200,000 new homes built in the US.