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Average Selling Price |
Average Sale to Listing Price |
Average Days on the Market |
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David
Gibbard |
$309,663* |
99.51%* |
34.5
Days* |
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Top 6 Agents (average) |
$282,079 |
96.54% |
77.9 Days |
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Difference |
$27,584 |
2.97% |
43.4
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Well Know TV & Radio Ad Agent
(applying for a job to be your realtor) |
$264,373 |
99.19% |
106.6 Days |
* Not one of the top 6 agents out performed
David Gibbard’s s
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Are You Leaving a Tax Deduction on
the Table?
If
you refinanced your home recently,
you're not alone. According to Plunkett
Research, approximately $1.1 trillion
dollars in mortgage loans was refinanced
in the United States in 2006. But did
you remember to take an increased
mortgage interest deduction on your tax
return if you were entitled to one?
Here's how it works. You are
allowed to take a deduction on your
personal tax return for mortgage
interest you pay on a loan that is
secured by either your principal
residence or a second home, up to one
million dollars in acquisition
indebtedness. That means mortgages,
lines of credit and home equity loans
all qualify, as long as they are secured
by your home, and you are the primary
borrower, and legally obligated to repay
that loan.
What you call your first and
second homes can be pretty open to
interpretation. Pretty much anything
will qualify if it has sleeping, cooking
and toilet facilities.
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Five Reasons Houses
Beat Stocks
Despite
what Wall Street wants you to believe,
owning a home isn't the same kind of
investment as stocks or bonds. What you
get is a USE asset that depreciates over
time, while it grows in market value.
All you have to do is keep the home in
good repair to max out your take.
Here are five reasons why you get
more for your money with a house than a
worthless sock puppet.
Leverage: with stocks, you put in all
your money for a little piece of a
company. With a house, you put in a
little money to get all of the house.
Tax benefits: Uncle Sam knows that
owning a home is a pain in the neck,
that's why you get subsidies. These are
basically government bribes to get you
to buy. What other investment can you
put in 5 percent of the cost of the
asset, reap all the appreciation and pay
no capital gains? That's right: live in
your home two years, rent it for three,
sell it, and pay no tax on capital gains
up to 250,000 for singles, $500,000 for
married couples. And you're worried
about paying too much?
And that's not all - think about
the benefits of fixed-rate mortgages,
property tax write-offs, interest rate
deductions, depreciation. Is this a
great country or what?
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New Monthly
Feature: Forsyth County, North Fulton and West
Gwinnett Real Estate Report
Single
family homes in Forsyth County saw the annual
average sale price drop 8% from $357,692 in
December 2006 to $330,448, in December 2007,
which more than double the rest of the metro
Atlanta area, which decreased by 3.5% from
December 2006 to December 2007. Average home
values in North Fulton dropped from $399,229 in
December 2006 to $389,661 in December 2007 a 2%
decrease. West Gwinnett matched Forsyth County
with average annual home value’s decreasing 8%,
from $329,444 in December 2006 to $304,544 in
December 2007. Actual home sales in Forsyth
County dropped 37% compared to December 2006,
which matches the 37% reduction in metro Atlanta
real estate sales. North Fulton home sales
dropped 40% while West Gwinnett home sales
dropped 34% over the same time last year.
In Forsyth County new home inventory rose
slightly from last month of 9.6 months of new
home inventory to this month of 9.7 months of
new home inventory. The average selling time
also rose from of 132 days to 149 days. Resale
home inventory in Forsyth County remained the
same at 9.6 months of resale home inventory. The
average selling time came down slightly from
69.6 days last month compared to 69.0 days this
month. North Fulton new home inventory increased
from 20.5 months of new home inventory last
month to 20.55 months of new home inventory this
month, with an average selling time changing
from 184 days to 166.5 days. Resale homes
inventory in North Fulton remained the rose from
7.05 months of resale home inventory to 8.9
months. Resale home average selling time rose
from 60 days to 61 days.
If you would like to receive and in-depth
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