[BillyGrown]

Market? There is no market here. Everything is flatlined. I’m thinking we are at rock bottom until prices change. The train has left the station and you were either on it or left behind.

[jrref]

It makes me laugh when I look at a re-sale house in an area where the the homes are 10+ years old. The realtor shows you all the nice upgrades like closed-in lanai, plantation shutters, crown molding but the home still has the original appliances, HVAC system is going to need to be changed out soon and the original water heater is a ticking time bomb in the garage, paint job is original and will need to be done soon. Forget about the roof lol. Lots of mold that could have been removed for free if the homeowner called in a claim.

[Normal]

Originally Posted by Runway48

There appears to be a normalization of housing prices. The average cost of housing over the past 30 years has increase around 4.5% but this is an average and includes some wild upwards and downwards swings. We are just exiting a wild upward swing that occurred during the COVID years where sellers were seeking and getting annual increases of 20-40%………If you bought recently, you will probably have to wait a while until you can expect to sell it for more than you paid.

A well kept home that sold in 2018 (Pre COVID) for 300,000 dollars would be valued today (2025) with a 4.5 percent inflationary point annual increase at about 400,000 to 410,000 dollars. That’s using average numbers as if we didn’t have the pandemic interruption of supply.

Some homes today are priced well above and beyond those reasonable numbers. Granted, annual inflation is supposed to be much less than 4.5, but percentages are adjusted upward about 1.5 percent to include inferred upgrading costs. Doing this attenuation gives simplicity to generalize what home prices need to settle at.

[Byte1]

Neighbor's home sold recently for about $90K less than what the Villages agent told them originally to list it for. Took them months to sell it and many price reductions. They still realized a profit on it over what they originally purchased it. Folks are being chased out of Florida by greedy insurance companies and their increasing home insurance cost.

[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by jrref

It makes me laugh when I look at a re-sale house in an area where the the homes are 10+ years old. The realtor shows you all the nice upgrades like closed-in lanai, plantation shutters, crown molding but the home still has the original appliances, HVAC system is going to need to be changed out soon and the original water heater is a ticking time bomb in the garage, paint job is original and will need to be done soon. Forget about the roof lol. Lots of mold that could have been removed for free if the homeowner called in a claim.

& the folks who live in thos 10+ year old homes laugh hysterically at the folks who bought into The Villages' marketing and believe Sawgrass is going to be the center of all that's good about The Villages.

For 100's of years, real estate values have been about 1 thing ... location, location, location.

There's only one thing about a home you can't fix, correct, modify or make up for .... land & location.

[CoachKandSportsguy]

Originally Posted by Normal

I also use algorithms. The matrix may drop differently, but data is only so accurate. One person puts in a pool, or pavers, or skylights, or a fireplace wall. Another changes to all tile flooring and does closets. Maybe the outside landscape is totally redone, none of which is recorded in county clerk records.

There has to be a standard deviation formula for human interaction verses years living in a place; please let me know if you ever come up with that.

So the flaw in my algorithm was that most of the comparables were updated / modernized with new kitchens, or flooring, appliances, etc. My parents house was structurally near perfect for 60 years old, but never updated for 60 years, with 20 year old appliances, 50 year old linoleum flooring, 50% of the windows with broken seals and cloudy, etc. Out of 14 comparables, only 2 were not upgraded, which means that the comparables were really not very comparable. I had a variable for modernized/updated but there weren't enough data points to get an accurate reduction in FMV for lack of upgrades.

So the algorithm overstated the FMV by probably 50-80 k to account for the cost of modernization, which I understood but would have to create some randomized data to account for the differences, which i didn't attempt. . . so the buyer's agent had the output of the model, and used it to buy the house slightly below the estimate, with someone who was dying to get into the town. . and they even waived the inspection after their real estate agent went through the house herself before the sale.

It only takes one buyer to get it done for reasons which is known only to them. .

[villagernewbie]

After lurking here for a couple of years (while renting), we also started getting serious on buying about a year ago. We definitely watched prices coming down and decided to make the plunge this summer. While we feel like we paid a reasonable price for our pre-owned, the concern was that maybe if we waited prices would come down even more. While prices probably will come down more, we found a place that was perfect for us and went ahead and jumped on it. The moral for us being, since we're going to be frogs, jumping in with both feet shouldn't be predicated on paying the absolute lowest price.

[Jayhawk]

Originally Posted by BrianL99

There's only one thing about a home you can't fix, correct, modify or make up for .... land & location.

That's 2 things.