Congressman Gil Gutknecht

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

Every so often, I like to take a look at how some of our more populous neighborhoods in Tallahassee are doing in the current housing market. On the northeast side of Tallahassee, two great neighborhoods, Summerbrooke and Ox Bottom Manor, represent quite a few homes and often a review of these two subdivisions gives one an snapshot of what is happening in the entire Tallahassee real estate market . Summerbrooke and Ox Bottom Manor Unit Home Sales The number of home sales in Ox Bottom (31) was the same as the number of home sales in Summerbrooke (31) over the past twelve months. The ... Read Full Story