Congressman Gil Gutknecht

Rep. Tim Walz and Allen Quist Republican Allen Quist solicits funds saying he and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann “ are two peas in a pod. ” Now he’s set to announce Thursday whether he’ll make a bid to join Bachmann in Congress by running against Democrat Tim Walz in Minnesota’s First District. Quist’s announcement at 1 p.m. in the Rochester City Council chambers will settle a candidacy question that only a month ago he told the Minnesota Independent was “ a big if. ” Quist gained the GOP endorsement in 1994 but failed in a run at becoming governor, losing in the primary to ... Read Full Story

One of the most often discussed neighborhoods in our office and in conversations with buyers and sellers is Ox Bottom Manor in the Northeast quadrant of the Tallahassee real estate market. This popular Tallahassee neighborhood features homes which are typically 4 bedrooms and run on average between 2,000 and 3,000 square feet. The northeast side of town represents roughly 50% of the homes sold last year in the Tallahassee housing market , and Ox Bottom Manor is nestled right in the midst of the northeast. I find that doing a case-study on Ox Bottom is often a good snapshot of the real estate market ... Read Full Story

Even though I just did an update on Ox Bottom Manor two months ago, somebody asked me yesterday what I thought might be happening in Ox Bottom Manor and Summerbrooke right now. It seems to be of interest to quite a few of my associates and friends as we discuss these two Tallahassee neighborhoods perhaps as much or more as any others. The first thing I like to look at is the number of homes being sold over time. Is the sales activity picking up, or is it dropping? The best way to do this is to remove the effects of seasonality by looking ... Read Full Story

While the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog usually analyzes information about the Tallahassee real estate market , we also can tell from our traffic reports that many of our readers like to see what is going on by subdivision (or neighborhood). Today’s blog is just a very large table of all sales, listed by total number of recorded sales per year, by subdivision in the Tallahassee real estate market . The real estate report shows all Tallahassee neighborhoods which have had a sale in the past five years (this year through November) and is sorted by the most sales per neighborhood in 2008. Tallahassee Home ... Read Full Story

Where are homes selling in Tallahassee ? This is a question many of our homeowners are asking us as they consider putting their homes on the market. With buyer activity in the market slowing down to a 20+ year record low, many people feel as if their Tallahassee subdivision is the only one where homes are slow to sell. But that is not the case. Here is a simple report showing the number of homes sold by Tallahassee subdivision over the pat twelve months (November 1, 2007 through October 31, 2008). This is the complete list as reported to the Leon County Tax Assessor’s ... Read Full Story