Life & Real Estate In & Around Athens GA. : December 2009

The following charts show the month to month residential real estate sales volume of the Greater Athens Ga metropolitan area for the months of June through November 2009.

Chart 1 shows the trends for both the number of residential units sold and the average number of Days on Market (D.O.M.) for those units. Novemeber gives us the second straight month of increased sales volume. This is more than likely due to buyers wanting to meet the deadline for qualifying for the First Time Home Buyer's Tax Credit (before the extension was approved).

The total number of residential units sold in November was 116, up 4 units from October.  The average Days on Market, D.O.M., did increase to 199 days. While it is up 3 days from October, D.O.M. is still down over 2 weeks from the 215 days in September. Both the increased sales and the D.O.M. remaining almost flat are positive indicaters.

Chart 1:

The second chart is tracking both the average and the median price of residential sales in the greater Athens metropolitan area. The average price to $181,506 and the median price dipped to $153,000. Again, this can be attributed to an increase in the number of First Time Home Buyer's as a percentage of the total number of buyers.

Chart 2:

The Greater Athens Metropolitan area, for this report, includes Athens-Clarke County, Oconee County, Oglethorpe County, Jackson County and Madison County. All figures come from the Athens Area Association of Realtors® multiple listing service (MLS).

For more information about real estate in the Athens, GA area, or, if you are looking to buy or sell real estate in the Athens Ga area and surrounding counties, please call me at 706-207-5290, or, you can click here to email me with any questions. To search for homes, land and other real estate in the Athens Ga area please visit my website, The Athens Real Estate Page.

In Athens -Clarke County, GA, for the week ending Dec. 6, 2009 the real estate market in Athens, Ga. looks like this:

There are 1539 active listings of which 1264 are residential, 13 are farm and land. This is a decrease of 9 listings from the previous reporting period.

There are 108 listings under contract. This number is 26 fewer than the previous period.

There have been 13 closed sales duiring the period of Nov. 29 - Dec. 6, 2009, all of which were residential. This is 6 more closed transactions than in the previous period.

For more information on Athens, GA or if you are interested in buying or selling your home there, please call me at 706-207-5290. Or you can click here to email me with your inquiries. To search for homes in Athens, please visit my website The Athens Real Estate Page.

Note: All data is taken from the Athens Area Association of Realtors MLS system and accurate as of one day after the reporting period. Athens-Clarke County market data includes the City of Athens, the town of Winterville and the remaining areas of Clarke County.

In Jackson County, GA, for the week ending Dec. 6, 2009 the real estate market looks like this:

There are 334 active listings of which 165 are residential, 11 are farm and land. The listing number is up 3 from the previous reporting period.

There are 38 listings under contract, that number is 4 fewer than in the previous reporting period.

During the week of Nov. 29 - Dec. 6, 2009 there were 2 closed residential transactions and 1 closed farm & land transaction in Jackson County. This amount is down 1 transaction from the previous reporting period.

For more information on Jackson County, GA or if you are interested in buying or selling your home there, please call me at 706-207-5290. Or you can click here to email me with your inquiries. To search for homes in Jackson County please visit my website www.theathensrealestatepage.com.

Note: All data is taken from the Athens Area Association of Realtors MLS system and accurate as of one day after the reporting period.

In Watkinsville, GA, for the week ending Dec. 6, 2009 the real estate market looks like this:

There are 476 active listings of which 257 are residential, 12 are farm and land. The total listings are 7 fewer than in the previous reporting period while residential listings are down 2 and farm & land listings are unchanged for the reporting period.

There are 22 listings under contract, down 4 from the previous period.

During the week of Nov. 29 - Dec. 6, 2009 there were 4 closed residential transactions and 0 closed farm and land sales, in Watkinsville, Ga. This is the same number of transactions as in the previous reporting period.

For more information on Watkinsville, GA or if you are interested in buying or selling your home there, please call me at 706-207-5290. Or you can click here to email me with your inquiries. To search for homes in Watkinsville, please visit my website www.theathensrealestatepage.com.

Note: All data is taken from the Athens Area Association of Realtors MLS system and accurate as of one day after the reporting period.

In Madison County, GA, for the week ending Dec. 6, 2009 the real estate market looks like this:

There are 365 active listings, 20 fewer listings than in the previous report, of which 174 are residential and 44 are farm and land.

There are 35 listings under contract, and this is 1 more listing under contract from the previous report.

For the period of  Nov 29 - Dec. 6, 2009 there were 0 closed residential transaction and 1 closed farm and land transaction in Madison County. This total is down 1 from the previous reporting period.

For more information on Madison County, GA or if you are interested in buying or selling your home there, please call me at 706-207-5290. Or you can click here to email me with your inquiries. To search for homes in Madison County please visit my website The Athens Real Estate Page.

Note: All data is taken from the Athens Area Association of Realtors MLS system and accurate as of one day after the reporting period.

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In Oconee County, GA, for the week ending Dec. 12, 2009 the real estate market looks like this:

There are 774 active listings of which 402 are residential, 20 are farm and land. The total number of listings is 7 fewer than in the previous report.

There were 53 listings under contract at the end of the reporting period, that is a decrease of 4 from the previous reporting period.

During the week of Nov. 30 - Dec. 6, 2009, there were 9 closed residential sale in Oconee County, Ga,  and 0 closed farm and land sale. This is an increase of 7 closed transactions from the previous report.

For more information on Oconee County, GA or if you are interested in buying or selling your home there, please call me at 706-207-5290. Or you can click here to email me with your inquiries. To search for homes in Oconee County please visit my website www.theathensrealestatepage.com.

Note: All data is taken from the Athens Area Association of Realtors MLS system and accurate as of one day after the reporting period.

In Oglethorpe County, GA, for the week ending Dec. 6, 2009 the real estate market looks like this:

There are 195 active listings of which 117 are residential, 30 are farm and land. The number of listings is down 3 from the previous report.

There are 15 properties under contract, an decrease of 1 from the previous report.

During the week of Nov 29 - Dec. 6, 2009 there were closed residential sales and no closed farm and land sales. This is 1 fewer than the previous report.

For more information on Oglethorpe County, GA or if you are interested in buying or selling your home there, please call me at 706-207-5290. Or you can click here to email me with your inquiries. To search for homes in Oglethorpe County please visit my website The Athens Real Estate Page.

Note: All data is taken from the Athens Area Association of Realtors MLS system and accurate as of one day after the reporting period.

In Athens -Clarke County, GA, for the week ending Nov. 29, 2009 the real estate market in Athens, Ga. looks like this:

There are 1548 active listings of which 1272 are residential, 14 are farm and land. This is a decrease of 4 listings from the previous reporting period.

There are 144 listings under contract. This number is 4 fewer than the previous period.

There have been 7 closed sales duiring the period of Nov. 23 - Nov. 29, 2009, all of which were residential. This is 2 fewer closed transactions than in the previous period.

For more information on Athens, GA or if you are interested in buying or selling your home there, please call me at 706-207-5290. Or you can click here to email me with your inquiries. To search for homes in Athens, please visit my website The Athens Real Estate Page.

Note: All data is taken from the Athens Area Association of Realtors MLS system and accurate as of one day after the reporting period. Athens-Clarke County market data includes the City of Athens, the town of Winterville and the remaining areas of Clarke County.

In Jackson County, GA, for the week ending Nov. 29, 2009 the real estate market looks like this:

There are 331 active listings of which 169 are residential, 12 are farm and land. The listing number is down 1 from the previous reporting period.

There are 42 listings under contract, the same as in the previous reporting period.

During the week of Nov. 23 - Nov. 29 , 2009 there were 4 closed residential transactions and 0 closed farm & land transactions in Jackson County. This amount is down 1 transaction from the previous reporting period.

For more information on Jackson County, GA or if you are interested in buying or selling your home there, please call me at 706-207-5290. Or you can click here to email me with your inquiries. To search for homes in Jackson County please visit my website www.theathensrealestatepage.com.

Note: All data is taken from the Athens Area Association of Realtors MLS system and accurate as of one day after the reporting period.