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Originally Posted by Radioman41
One factor beyond their control is the housing market up North. We are in the Maryland suburbs West of Washington, DC, which was very hot in 2013 and early 2014. The market has slowed quite a bit with houses on the market for a much longer time period. We are watching the market very closely as we are getting our house ready to sell and become full time Villagers. Real Estate agents we have interviewed have admitted sales are slowing.
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I'm sure this is a factor as well as there are fewer coming to TV in the summer months. The daily Sun publishes a section 2 or 3 times a week listing homes for sale. On the back page there is a count of homes sold in the past 12 months. In May I noticed the numbers dropping so I started charting it. (Why? beats me...lol)
May 8th
5,236. Total
3,183. New
2053. Pre owned
June 21
5,123
3,104
2,019
July 31
5,071
3,006
2,065
This may be a normal summer trend. I don't know as I have never tracked the data in previous years. It will be interesting to watch.