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2010 

Sales of Dane County single family homes (excluding condos) increased in 2009, but did the market for single family homes really improve? To answer this question we turn to one of our favorite statistics - total days on market experience. For those who want the details, the total days on market e...
01/31/2010
As of this post, our quick search of Sun Prairie foreclosures shows 25 bank-owned condos for sale in Sun Prairie - all of them listed for less than $200,000. Check out our quick search tools on the property search menu at DaneCountyMarket.com. They make it easy to find bank-owned and short sale p...
01/29/2010
UW Credit Union is offering a free home buying seminar on Tuesday, February 9th from 6:30 to 8:00 PM. For more information about this seminar, click here. The Dane County Housing Authority is sponsoring a two-part series with sessions on both Tuesday, February 16th and Tuesday, February 23rd. Bot...
01/27/2010
You can create your own custom foreclosure search at DaneCountyMarket.com. And now you can run foreclosure quick searches by city for single family home, condo and multifamily real estate. The searches cover both bank-owned and short sale properties. For example, the city of Madison has 6 differe...
01/26/2010
How has the real estate downturn affected real estate agents? The graph below paints a clear picture. It shows Dane County home and condo sales (in millions of dollars) dating back to the year 2000. You'll see 2005 was the grand daddy of all years, with Dane County home and condo sales totaling $...
01/23/2010
We're excited to announce we've added a distressed property option to our real estate search tools at  DaneCountyMarket.com. Here's how you can search for bank owned properties and short sales using our real estate map. First, go to DaneCountyMarket.com and click the big blue button on the home p...
01/21/2010
The market for sellers is most challenging for the homes and condos that are on the high end of the price ladder. And the data for Dane County listing success rates bears that out. For example, in 2009 the overall listing success rate for Dane County homes was 56%. Homes under $100,000 had a succ...
01/20/2010
Check out the photos below of 3317 Westview Lane, tucked inside Madison's Arbor Hills neighborhood right near The Arboretum. This 3 bedroom/2.75 bath home comes with a ton of updates, many of which you can see from this video and this panoramic tour. Compare this home to other homes listed at $29...
01/19/2010
Approximately 23% of the home and condo sales in Dane County are related to foreclosure, according to the Distressed Property Index we developed a few months ago. The December index decreased from November's index value of 24%. For more details, please visit our monthly update at DaneCountyMarket...
01/19/2010
According to the latest mortgage rate publication by UW Credit Union, interest rates for 30 year fixed rate loans are back below 5%. If you haven't visited the UW Credit Union mortgage web center before, you'll find it to be a very useful resource. The UWCU mortgage web center allows you to monit...
01/18/2010
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