The Alexandria Area Economic Development Commission just released their 2009 Annual Report. In there, the hospital story is pretty cool… Douglas County Hospital has made significant progress on a new 100,000 square foot addition to their facility which will be operational in the summer of 2010. With a total estimated cost of $30 million, this…
The Consumer Confidence Index rose in January and the December report was slightly better than previously reported. The CCI rose to 56.5, its highest level in 17 months. Both the present situation and expectations series increased while labor market conditions improved slightly. Great news, there are more positive aspects to this story yet. More on that later. I…
Here’s some good data for my Alexandria friends: In reading the report from the National Association of Realtors, there are lots of “green shoots”. If you read the”news media”, they have a tendency to take the same housing report and give it a negative spin…for instance; I found this on-line from the Washington Post-their headline: …
A phenomenon that appears to be coming more common coast to coast are Transaction Fees, charged to the consumer by real estate companies. In an effort for real estate companies to shore up their bottom lines they have taken on the task of collecting their commission AND a transaction fee from their customers for doing their…
I love this stuff! For my Alexandria Blog readers, Here’s some tidbits: HOUSING STARTS END 2009 ON A WEAK NOTE. Housing starts fell 23,000 units to an annual pace of 557,000 in December as the second straight rise in multi-family activity was unable to offset a drop in single-family building. Permits were up sharply. SINGLE-FAMILY…
Well there is always Alexandria, Virginia; or Alexandria, Egypt; or Alexandria, New Hampshire; or Alexandria, Louisiana; or Alexandria, Kentucky; or Alexandria, Indiana; or Alexandria, Ohio…it’s kind of crowded out there with Alexandria’s. I gotta believe that the Minnesota one is the best? I’ve never been to the other Alexandria’s, so there may be some prejudice there. …
In doing research for Condo/Townhome sales in the Douglas County area, the Condo/Townhome sector in our local MLS has two sections for placement of ones townhome. They are Condo/Townhome Residential and Condo/Townhome Lakeshore. I already did the report this week for the sales in the residential section, with this report today on lakeshore condo/townhomes; that…
I received this from the AAEDC as well. I thought that it would be interesting to see what the Gross Retail Sales pattern has been. Here’s what I got: 2007 – Alexandria: GROSS SALES/$876.15 million. TAXABLE SALES/$474.25 million 2006 – Alexandria: GROSS SALES/$832.88 million. TAXABLE SALES/$443.78 million 2005 – Alexandria: GROSS SALES/$750.24 million. TAXABLE SALES/421.50…
In talking with Pat Kalina from the Alexandria Area Economic Development Commission about the unemployment stats, the level of unemployment for our geographic area is probably best described by Douglas County’s borders instead of just Alexandria City Limits. With that, as of November 2009, the unemployment rate of Douglas County was 5.7%. Source: Alexandria…
It is my work to know and understand the Alexandria marketplace to the nth degree. More knowledge of the marketplace, I feel makes me a better real estate agent. To this end, I absorb any and all data that I can find that pertains to real estate. And quite frankly, that is just about everything…
