Charles Woodall's (dothanhomesearch) Blog

We have discussed other market numbers recently, including an analysis of days on market, absorption rate, and the overall numbers. All of them point to a slowing market. Today I want to throw a new number into the mix. We’ll call it the Pending Sales Ratio. The number of pending sales gives a go...

We like to have some fun around here about mid week, so here is this week’s addition to Hump Day. Here is one of the many historic markers in and around the Dothan area. This one is located next to the Wiregrass Museum of Art, on Museum Street, just behind the Dothan Civic Center. Most of the his...

mobile.century21.com Visitors can search for properties, agents, and offices, as well as utilize interactive financial tools such as a mortgage calculator, at their convenience via their PDAs, cell phones and other handheld devices with Internet access capability. Buyers driving through a neighbo...

Living in southeast Alabama, just minutes from the home of the tomato, makes me somewhat of an authority on the subject. There is another authority on subjects related to real estate, and these folks just happen to be called the Tomatoes, because they are clients of the Real Estate Tomato.This is...

Keshia Nix, REALTOR Associate with CENTURY 21 Key Realty, posted this on our website, www.dothanhomesearch.com today. Here is an excerpt.We as real estate agents get asked a lot of questions. Answering those questions is one part of this business that I love the most. There are questions that are...

As more and more listings hit the market, there are a number of extra things we as listing agents need to do to give our listings a competitive edge. In addition to helping our seller by getting their home sold quicker, the added benefit of doing these things is that they make us more professiona...

Living in southeast Alabama, just minutes from the home of the tomato, makes me somewhat of an authority on the subject, although I am still not sure whether it is a fruit or a vegetable. There is another type of tomato out there that I want to bring to your attention today however. I am talking ...

Several homebuilders around Dothan have started offering some special financing options for purchasers of their homes. Programs called 2/1 buydowns are becoming more and more common as builders try to clear finished homes from their inventory. This post will cover this financing option in more de...

The Dothan Planning Commission held its monthly meeting today, and I have to say this month’s meeting is one of the shortest I have attended.There were no heavily debated or controversial issues among the ten or so items discussed. The biggest news to me is that Office Depot has received approval...

We have talked about absorption rate before. For those that missed it, absorption rate is the time it would take to clear the market of inventory if no more homes were listed for sale. This is measured in months, and is calculated by dividing the current inventory by the average number of homes s...