St Simons Island Real Estate Sales Stats

18 June 2010

Looking at numbers year-to-date so far for the Island so thought I’d share.  Overall, we’re up in the number of single-family homes sold by 159% over this same time last year.   Here’s a chart showing a breakdown of sold transactions by area:

For condo sales, which have been trending lower, total Island transactions are up [...]

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Local This and Thats – St Simons Island & Brunswick

23 May 2010

As with any community, change is always in the air.   I’ve noticed changes occur most frequently in the restaurant business… so this post should bear no surprises when you see that it mostly has to do with places to eat…
Noticed the other day that the two empty store fronts next to Target was being [...]

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Market Stats for St Simons Island & Brunswick

26 April 2010

While Island sales are still down by half of what they were for this same time period when compared to the peak market in 2006, the numbers I pulled today are fairly positive.
In looking at sales in our area from the beginning of the year to today, April 26th – the numbers fall out like [...]

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Shrimp Boats Burn in Darien, GA

16 April 2010

On the eve of the Annual Blessing of the Fleet in Darien, GA, several shrimp boats caught fire late last night.  According to my sources, officials are looking into two theories on how this fire may have started.  One theory is that someone may have left a generator on overnight which leaked gas and started [...]

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What’s All This About a New Real Estate Tax?

16 April 2010

Apparently, there was a little known tax added at the last minute to the Obama Health Care Reform Bill.  Many questions have been tossed around and it became clear that not many people were aware of this new tax that would obviously affect the real estate industry.  Well, thanks to our friends at the Georgia [...]

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Buyer Incentives from the IRS

10 April 2010

Time is running out on the Federal Tax Credit for homebuyers.  I suppose since April, aside from being allergy month here in the deep South, is tax month, our friends at the IRS has passed on some links to valuable IRS information.  Check these out!
Energy Incentives for Individuals
Seven Facts About the Nonbusiness Energy Property Credit
First [...]

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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire… but not in good way… Southern Soul burns on St Simons Island

30 March 2010

This past weekend while in Atlanta, my husband called me and asked, “Guess what’s burning as we speak?”  How does one answer a question like this?  Of course, I asked, “What’s burning?”  It turns out Southern Soul, a barbecue joint on the Island that resides in the old GISCO seafood building at the very visible [...]

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Even the Little Things Count…

13 March 2010

Something as simple as a dry erase board can bode things are picking up… Like many offices, we have a dry erase board in our office upon which we note pending sales. A few weeks ago, there was one pending transaction on our meager little board.  Today, there are about seven or eight [...]

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Interesting Article on Sea Island & It’s Woes…

5 January 2010

Check out this article in Business Week on Sea Island and how it’s drowning in debt…
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_02/b4162044100276.htm

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To Send or Not to Send…

12 December 2009

Do people even like receiving Christmas cards? At 44 cents a pop for a stamp, are they even worth sending in this digital age when I can wish one and all a Merry Christmas or a Happy Hannukah with one status update on Facebook?
Now, for business purposes, I send out one of those magnetic calendars [...]

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