Some Good News for Real Estate Agents
Posted:
Friday, January 6th, 2012
Category:
Real Estate License
So far, sales have gone flat-line across the county, same as last year. That’s not good. But then, this year’s sales were made without the artificial boost of government tax credits. That’s good.
The government boost has been seen by some real estate experts as a limited success; others expressed concerns that the high number of sales early in the year was misleading.
Dori Van Lone, an assistant vice president of Land Title Guarantee in Boulder, pointed out that “It really compiled all of the sales that we would have had throughout the rest of the year into that time frame. This year, it’s real-time sales.”
According to Van Lone, the average price for Boulder homes sold from August 2010 to July 2011 was $535,000, a modest 0.9-percent increase over the same time period a year ago. In others areas, the median price held steady or dipped ever so slightly (0.4 percent) in certain areas.
Condominium and townhome sales in 2011 reflected that ambivalence more emphatically, slipping by 13 percent from 2010. Mike Malec, ReMax broker associate in Boulder observed that “Housing is doing fairly well, but townhomes and condos are doing terrible.”
Real estate agents across the country are hoping for clarity in the next months and are preparing for the Big Revival sometime late next year. Online real estate schools, like top provider Agentcampus.com, offer online real estate courses and real estate continuing education leading to a real estate license.
