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! September 2010 ! TheHomeHunt.com ! Vol. XIV, Issue VIII
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Your Window on
Welcome to The New Home Hunt
Wasaga Beach & Collingwood Real Estate
DID YOU MISS US...?
Because we certainly missed you! Back in 1997 when we started our original Window On Wasaga monthly newsletter, it immediately provided a direct link between our clients and ourselves. You wanted market information. We had market information. You wanted timely Wasaga Beach and Collingwood news. We had timely Wasaga Beach and Collingwood news. It was the perfect match. As the years passed, we regularly churned out our little monthly, allowing us to pass along valuable information to clients as well as satisfying our passion for our former careers in journalism and photography. And then our business grew larger, as did our young family, and our monthly became a quarterly, and a few years later the quarterly became an annual holiday newsletter you received with your calendars. And it continues to amaze me that people still ask about the old newsletter. “Did you take me off your mailing list?” So after toying with an automated newsletter which Mary and I found very impersonal, we’ve decided to dust off the printing press (so to speak!) and start the publishing company once again. So welcome to The Home Hunt! We’ve been expecting you...
Tall Ship visitors for the Wasaga Under Siege re-enactment
Wasaga Beach sand castle contest
A little kayak humour for Bruce
Great summer memories from Wasaga Beach! * All Photos in this publication are copyrighted by Bruce Johnson 2010
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BRUCE’S MARKET INFORMATION!
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Residential Listings for August
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Market Notes:
Collingwood
residential listings in the
Blue Mtn
Triangle
for
Tiny Beaches
August 2010 was $326,069,
Wasaga Beach
were 137 residential sales 136
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80
32 36 51 64
35 48
10 11
2010
same period in 2009. There to
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71
up from $270,896 for the
compared
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Clearview
The average sale price for Georgian
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2009
78
Residential Sales for August
last
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August. The majority of
20
30
17
Collingwood
below $300,000.
Blue Mtn Tiny Beaches Wasaga Beach
All data provided by the Georgian Triangle Real Estate Board. Graphs copyrighted by Bruce
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12
Clearview
home sales continue to be
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16 15
28
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2010
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2009
Housing Market Indicators This Month Same Month Difference in % of Change Last Year
# of units
Remarks
Total Sales
201
216
-15
-6.9%
fewer sales
New Listings
505
507
-2
-0.4%
no change
2429
2062
367
17.8%
far more listings than 12 months ago
Active Listings
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BRUCE’S MARKET INFORMATION!
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August Sales By Price: 2010 & 2009 11
Under 100,000 100,000 - 149,999
16 15
26 42 42 42
150,000 - 199,999 200,000 - 249,999 250,000 - 299,999 15 16
300,000 - 349,999 350,000 - 399,999
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400,000 - 499,999
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500,000 - 599,999 600,000 - 699,999
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700,000 - 799,999
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Total Sales: August 2010: 201 August 2009: 216
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800,000 - 899,999 900,000 - 999,999
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2010 Month This chart b reaks down to tal property during Augus sales t 2010 into p ri c e ranges so th the most pop at ular (highest s el li n g) price ranges can quickly b e determined. P ro perties in the $150,000 to $250,000 pri ce ranges pro the highest s duced ales volume du ri n g August. Th mix between e sales of high er p ri c ed versus lower-priced properties dire c tl y affects th average month e ly selling pric e.
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2009 Month A Moving Experience
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Total Sales - monthly 7%3% 3%
6% 20%
13%
34%
6% 13% 21%
18%
54%
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Single-Family Homes
Single Family Homes - Other
Residential - Other
Farms
Vacant Land
Other (I.C. & I.)
Average Sale Price: August 2010/2009 $600,000 $542,250 $454,225
$500,000 $391,173 $400,000
$358,000 $258,753$273,074 $263,339 $279,966
$300,000
$242,193 $200,000
$158,500
Clearview
$100,000
Collingwood
2010
Blue Mtn
2009
Tiny Beaches
$0
Wasaga Beach
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