[perrjojo]

Originally Posted by justjim

OP, I read a couple years ago that a retirement community, on the average, has four to five percent of homes for sale. At four percent that would be just north of 2,000 homes for sale in The villages. The reasons are many, death, moving up or out etc. etc.

When we lived in our previous family neighborhood, I was told the same percentage from our realtor. 999 seems like a large number but it is a healthy number for TV. I will say that when we first moved here 3 years ago there were over 6000 new and previously owned homes sold per year. That number has dropped to around 4600 for the past 12 months.
I am not making any sort of statement, just providing facts.
Just the facts ma'am. Just the facts,

As of May 8-14-2014 This info from ads in The DS
5,236 In the past 12 months
3,183 new
2,053 preowned

As of May 15, 2015
4, 573
2,429 new
2,144 preowned

[88 Keys]

Originally Posted by JMEZARIC3

Good luck.
Will you be renting a home during your search for the perfect home? You will need a place to stay for at least 30 days,maybe longer.Rents are pretty cheap for June,July and Aug.

We've been coming to The Villages 3 to 4 times a year for the past 20 years when my parents moved here, and with my mother in the mid stages of Alzheimers I've been coming down for a couple of weeks every month for the past two years. We've watched it grow from when there was just a tent in Spanish Springs for the entertainment and you couldn't drive your golf cart after dusk so we have a pretty good handle on the different neighborhoods. (it was so much easier watching it grow rather than trying to take the whole place in at once!)

If we don't find anything before our home here in Ohio closes we'll move in with my parents until we find something. We really don't expect this to be our forever home........my parents are in their 3rd home!

[Floridagal]

Would love to sell my home, but with all the new homes and the current resales, it probably take a year it two before, if we are lucky, to sell my home. I just don't like the idea of leaving my home a couple of times a day to show it, so I figure ill just stay where I am.

[HimandMe]

Originally Posted by 88 keys

hopefully that number will be 998 by friday! We fly in tomorrow to buy our first home in tv. We sold our home here in ohio in less than 2 weeks.

There are at least 20 homes in our price range that meet most of our requirements between mls and the villages listings.

Wish us luck.

No more snowy winters for us!!!!

welcome!

[dewilson58]

Isn't 999 a lot better than 666?

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Floridagal

Would love to sell my home, but with all the new homes and the current resales, it probably take a year it two before, if we are lucky, to sell my home. I just don't like the idea of leaving my home a couple of times a day to show it, so I figure ill just stay where I am.

If you want to sell your home, price it right, get rid of extra "stuff", stage it attractively and be sure it is spotless.

When other homes are selling quickly, why shouldn't yours. I would sell it by owner.

[beachx4me]

Mine just happens to be one of the 999!!!

[asianthree]

Originally Posted by 88 Keys

Hopefully that number will be 998 by Friday! We fly in tomorrow to buy our first home in TV. We sold our home here in Ohio in less than 2 weeks.

There are at least 20 homes in our price range that meet most of our requirements between MLS and The Villages listings.

Wish us luck.

NO MORE SNOWY WINTERS FOR US!!!!

good luck

[asianthree]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

If you want to sell your home, price it right, get rid of extra "stuff", stage it attractively and be sure it is spotless.

When other homes are selling quickly, why shouldn't yours. I would sell it by owner.

Sold ours in three days. It is faster than you think

[Fraugoofy]

It's better than 99 bottles of beer on the wall!

[shcisamax]

Originally Posted by 88 Keys

There are at least 20 homes in our price range that meet most of our requirements between MLS and The Villages listings.

Wish us luck.

NO MORE SNOWY WINTERS FOR US!!!!

Don't forget to look on TheVillagersFSBO. Great site for preowned homes.

[EnglishJW]

Originally Posted by shcisamax

Don't forget to look on TheVillagersFSBO. Great site for preowned homes.

The site - for reasons explained in a few other threads here on TOTV - has been renamed to VillagersFSBO:

VillagersFSBO.com

[tbussche]

We settled on our house in Maryland this week and will arrive on July 1 to look at several homes in TV. We will be living full-time in our motorhome until we settle on our new home.

[beachx4me]

For those looking I have a great home in Glenbrook for sale.

[twoplanekid]

From page 43 of the SLCDD 9/10/2015 Agenda PDF


The information appearing herein regarding The Villages and the Developer has been furnished by the Developer.
..............

Historical annual home closings and historical annual average sales prices (home and lot) in The
Villages are as follows:

Year Homes Sold (Home and Lot) Average Sale Price
1986 511 *
1987 543 *
1988 517 *
1989 542 $ 74,000
1990 502 79,000
1991 430 81,000
1992 562 87,000
1993 567 93,000
1994 686 98,000
1995 700 106,000
1996 753 115,000
1997 1,054 119,000
1998 1,321 129,000
1999 1,544 139,000
2000 1,776 151,000
2001 2,074 156,000
2002 2,260 163,000
2003 3,329 168,000
2004 3,955 204,000
2005 4,263 232,000
2006 3,935 257,000
2007 2,403 251,000
2008 2,236 231,000
2009 2,115 229,000
2010 2,208 231,000
2011 2,307 241,000
2012 2,850 244,000
2013 3,419 271,000
2014 2,601 304,000
2015** 1,319 304,000

___________________________
* Not applicable.
**Seven months ending July 31, 2015.
The Developer employs six general contractors who subcontract all of the home construction of the single-family, site-built homes. The Developer also supervises outside engineering firms and contracts all of the development site work.

On average, the Developer believes that approximately five percent of the existing homes in The Villages resell in any given year. The resale of existing homesites are facilitated by a real estate brokerage firm affiliated with the Developer and other unaffiliated realtors and are not included in the above table. The Developer believes that this real estate brokerage firm has an approximately 60% market share. As of July 31, 2015, the real estate brokerage firm affiliated with the Developer had approximately 352 resale home listings.