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Pope County, AR Real Estate News

By Whitt Piker
(Moore & Co. Realtors)
I am proud to be a Realtor and carry that name.  It is an honor for me and I want to represent it well.   You see I have an older brother!  That is probably enough said but he is an older brother who wasn't too thrilled to have a younger brother.  In fact he always told me I was adopted.  So when I would get in trouble or my parents would be especially hard on me he would always remind me it was because I was adopted.  One day when I was about 12 and I was about to go away on a church trip my Dad came into my room and shut the door behind him (which is never a good thing)  He then proceeded to ask me this question "Son what is your Last Name?"  I immediately thought "Oh crap, I am adopted, and he is about to tell me right now!" and I answered "Piker" and then he said "and what is my Las...
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By Whitt Piker
(Moore & Co. Realtors)
Home sales have been down in Russellville and Pope County over the past year. Those in the housing industry are hopeful that consumers will take advantage of several factors working in their favor and that the industry will pick up in the next few months. According to the Arkansas Realtors Association, home sales for January through November 2008 were down 14.3 percent from the same period in 2007. For the month of November alone, the report said, home sales were down 57.01 percent year-over-year. Ethan Nobles of the Arkansas Realtors Association said the National Association of Realtors has predicted existing home sales will pick up in the first quarter of this year. However, he said, "We don't do predictions, and here's why. (Recently) the federal government announced they were going ...
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