Kathy Miller & Dave Eaton

When you make the decision to buy or sell, you deserve to have all the latest market information and the very best advice. As experienced REALTORS® , Kathy Miller and Dave Eaton, can provide you with everything you need to make the best deal possible. They consider it part of their job to make your buying or selling experience more enjoyable and less stressful. With their expertise they promise to help you make the most informed decisions and provide you with the highest quality real estate service in the North Peace!

January 25/2010 - Just a quick note to let you know that REMAX Action Realty has now upgraded our website, go to www.remaxfortstjohn.ca to take a sneak peak. The link on our page will be updated soon.

Welcome to 2010! What a finish to a year!! When you consider that as of Sept. 30/09, single family home prices were 1.9% below last year's and in only 3 months, they were down to only 0.5% behind last year, that's quite a strong improvment. Kathy and I are finding that we're still quite busy.... both with residential and commercial real estate. It looks like the end of the recession (official now) and the continuing low interest rates have helped many buyers, sellers and investors to look at our market very favourably right now. Here’s the stats on our local real estate market up to the end of 2009.

Houses on acreage actually finished the year with the same average selling price as 2008. We're very fortunate that our prices have held quite well and with the incredibly low interest rates, buyers continue to have lots of options in the market. Call us or email us for more details on these stats or to discuss your buying or selling options.

*To DEC. 31, 2009*	*Avg. Selling Price*	*Days on Market/09*	*Days on Market/08*
Single Fam. Home	-0.5%	69	59
House on Acreage	0%	112	79
Mobile Homes	-14%	110	68
Mobiles on Lot	-.9%	67	85
Total	-2.6%	92	85

Total sales for our area in 2009 was 594 properties compared to 751 last year (down 21%), which is a tremendous improvement from May 2009 when unit sales were down 39% Total dollars sold in 2009: $154,000,000 compared to $200,000,000 last year (down 23%), which is also a huge improvment from May 2009 when sales were down 41%. You’ll often hear or read news stories about real estate and how the trend is up or down, but it’s very important to pay attention to our local market only when you’re assessing your prospects as a property buyer or seller as provincial or national stats don’t tell the story in our area.

Resources

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