Brint's Blog

Alright, lets get these neighborhood-specific reports going for year-end activity.  I've been awfully busy these last few weeks so that's kept me from getting these up sooner.  Over the next few weeks I will post more areas/neighborhoods - also I'll provide numbers from the Bitterroot Valley as w...

I was hoping to get them together this last week, however we sometimes hit issues with late reporting.  A little preivew for the Missoula area.   - A little over 960 sales accounting for just about a 20% volume increase - A final median sales price close to $210,000 for the market - A slow new co...

All this week I'll be getting ready to provide year-end stats with segmented data.  I'll be listing some idividual Missoula neighborhoods and Bitterroot towns/areas as well.  For ease of access to the information I'll post them in seperate blogs but I'll also provide a few summary posts with a ge...

For the third part of my recap blog I figured I’d give a preview of the additional events that you take part of and sights that you see when attending the NAR end of year convention.   The days don’t just end when the classes wrap up around 4 or 5 pm.  There are all sorts of events that take plac...

Thanksgiving and just being busy in general interrupted my chain of posts I wanted to do upon my return from the NAR convention in Orlando.  My first part was some overall opinions on some points where I see a disconnect between NAR, the common Realtor, the consumer, and the marketplace.  For thi...

So by all definitions in the Realtor world, I'm a young guy at 33.  There's not a lot of professionals my age in our industry where I believe I head the average age is 58 years old, per a seminar I sat in on taught by Jared James.  NAR strikes me right now as a baby-boomer dominated organization ...

Missoula has just kicked off its 4th quarter and the market is still moving at a tremendous pace compared to years before.   As always, here are some numbers to show you how things are going in our little college town here in Western Montana. Missoula’s 3rd quarter was a busy one, in our valley w...

I've just put a very general description together of the difference on these two different types of sales processes.  I still have people asking me weekly what the difference is - so I figured I'd throw this out there.  As I said, very general and specific to my own experiences and observations h...

The other day at the Missoula Organization of Realtors board meeting the discussion came up that a lot of reports you see which show the list price of a home compared to the sales price isn't the most accurate.  One of my colleagues pointed out that the MLS grabs the price at the time the offer w...

Taking a quick snapshot at our market and how it's doing, looking at what's currently active vs what has sold in the last 31 days: $0 - $150k:       70 active / 21 sold = 3.33 months $150k - $200k:  187 active / 22 sold = 8.5 months $200k - $275k:  146 active / 28 sold = 5.2 months $275k - $350k:...