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Originally Posted by njbchbum
...that you take a look at this website:
http://www.lylesellsfla.com/The_Vill...n_houses.shtml in order to get a better perspective on the area real estate market. We found it invaluable while watching the market prior to our buying in TV. I love the feature that tracks the number of days a property has been on the market and how the prices have changed accordingly.
You don't have to buy a resale from a villages sales rep - our home was on the market thru Remax. The ONLY 'inconvenience' we found was having to go to TV offices to get our IDs and to complete a small amount of paperwork about our tele listing |
The information linked here by njbchbum is good to have. DOM can tell a tale more clearly than a lot of other things can. The VLS number on TV's site can give a rather vague indication of how old a Villages listing is, but nothing as clear as what this MLS site does with showing the actual number of days on market, a pretty significant factor.
I always hope that potential buyers know that if they are interested in looking at pre-owned homes, they need to have two agents because TV agents do not sell MLS listings and MLS agents are not allowed to sell VLS listings.
As far as TV raising prices on the new homes goes, I think that should help the pre-owned market for sellers who want or need to sell quickly, if they can be realistic and not decide to jump up in listing price, too. It seems that higher pricing on new would dampen that competition somewhat and might give pre-owned sellers a window of advantage. (I am not sure if TV has raised those new home prices yet. The word from agents when we were there in early November was that they "might." I do not know if that was a trial balloon or if they have been raised now.) Buyers who are not completely convinced that new is all they want should look seriously at pre-owned homes, too. Many pre-owned homes have a lot to offer.
Boomer