Home sales and new home construction were on a roll prior to the coronavirus. One month into the pandemic, many indicators remain strong.
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March 5, 2020 - Study: U.S. Needs 3.3M More Homes to Satisfy Demand
February 27, 2020 - Grand Living Realty Now Representing American Village in Palm Coast
February 13, 2020 - Coming Soon - First New Condos in Palm Coast Since 2008
February 10, 2020 - A Conservationist Argument for Density
March 25, 2019 – A National Association of Realtors touts February existing-home sales results with this headline; “U.S. Existing-Homes Sales Surge 11.8 Percent in February.” The Flagler market jumped even more, by 22.2%. But the uptick sales is more due to seasonality than to market strength. Locally, February home sales have exceeded January sales in all but three of the last 16 years. read full story
January 18, 2017 – Flagler County (including Palm Coast) in Northeast Florida has been called the poster child of the Great Recession. Its housing market suffered for more than ten years. Properties dropped nearly 60% in value. For three years, 2009, 2010 and 2011, more than half of homes sold were either short sales or foreclosures. Palm Coast was featured in a front-page story in the Sunday edition of the Washington Post in June, 2011. That chapter is now over. 2016 marks the year in which the Flagler County housing market emerged from the cycle’s doldrums to regain a sense of normalcy. Now, the first end-to-end look at the cycle that lasted more than a decade; the Bubble, the Crash and the Recovery. read full story
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