Taos Real Estate

Who Cares About Utility Cost & Other Stuff?

If you are going to pay a real estate broker a percentage of your selling price to sell your home, they should have the energy to be thorough in the entry of information to help potential buyers to consider your property for purchase.

Taos Real Estate Hotsheet Report – 12/16/08

It’s been a couple of weeks since the last sold property hotsheet report, so I’m placing one below.  You can enlarge or print it with the >> at the upper right corner. I can’t find much to say about it, as there hasn’t been a lot of Taos real estate sold during the period.  It [...]

Taos Real Estate Sold Property Hotsheet Report – 12/4/2008

My last report was on November 13th. This report as a PDF is below. Use the >> at upper right corner to enlarge or print. Comments:

1. To help compare the same period over a couple of years, I’ve also included the same calendar time frame from Nov 13 through Dec 4 for 2006 and 2005 respectively.

A Victory for Transparency – MLS Days on Market

There has been a move afoot to decrease the time that a property could be off the Taos real estate market before it could be re-listed as a new listing. This would get it a new MLS number, obfuscating the cumulative days on market sooner.

Additional Take on Condo Absorption Rate

About a week ago, I posted about the absorption rates for residential property in the Taos real estate MLS. Today, at a Realtor® luncheon, I was discussing the condo sales rates with Ed Adams, a number-savvy appraiser.

Building Integrated Taos Area Maps

I just wanted to do a short post to call attention to the Taos maps I’m building.  As I post places of interest, they will begin to show up on Taos maps according to category.  There are maps for real estate areas of course.  But there are also maps for day trip locations, food and [...]

Taos Real Estate Current Market Report

For the first time in a long time, there are a lot of single family home listings under $200k that won’t require huge remodel to be livable.  I give you some numbers and areas in this podcast. [podcast]http://galleryrealtyoftaos.com/wp-content/podcast/market11-1-08f.mp3[/podcast] translation

Falling Home Prices and the Taos Real Estate Market

Though sales have slowed significantly, Taos has weathered national home price declines pretty well. Yes, there have been quite a few price reduction notices in my daily real estate hotsheet report. However, as I’ve written before, they tend to be homes that were never priced right for sale in the first place, a trait of [...]

Are Luxury Home Sales Really Toast in the Taos Real Estate Market?

A BusinessWeek.com article questioning whether the stock market plunge will kill luxury home sales quotes and links to a Washington, DC area real estate site’s statement that the stats in their area already show that the market for luxury home sales is toast! I believe that the Taos area market has been slowly browning over [...]

Taos Real Estate – Ski Valley Homes and Prospects

Tomorrow is the Realtor Tour of ski valley properties.  I noticed that there were a lot of them on the list, so I did a search to get some data.  Coincidentally, Realtor.org came out with a short article titled “Sales Sluggish on Ski Homes, But Prices Stay High.” They only quoted a real estate broker [...]