I picked the nine best listings among the mass of listings we've taken over this last month, I hope you agree that they look pretty good...    459 Clarke Drive - $114,900 (great views from Deck)   1656 Drexel - $116,000   3085 Lindale - $124,800   935 Center Place - $139,900   560 Fenelon Place - $198,000 (more great Deck views, by 4th St. Elevator!)   385 Burch - $234,000 (classic older home)    10337 Emberwood - $364,900   785 Mt. Carmel - $365,000 (landscapers delight!)    17319 Ballymore Lane - $519,900 (in AWESOME Waterford Estates - Built by Tim Jeager)     As always, gain direct access to all the listings by registering at my website, DBQFavoriteAgent.com...   Visit DBQFavoriteAgent.com here... 08/19/2008

New Listings: 120 Price Changes: 109   Gone Under Contract: 78   Sold Listings: 74   Expired & Withdrawn Listings: 34 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Total New Listings: 561 Active Listings: 443 Pending Sold Listings: 118 (% Under Contract): 21.0% ( - 1.0%) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Average Homes Sold Per Month: 64.3 Homes Percentage Selling Per Month: 14.5% Supply of Homes:  6.9 Month Supply (+ .7 months supply) (Over 6.0 = Buyer's Market, Under 6.0 = Seller's Market) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Year to Date Sales: 445 ($144,327 Avg. per Sale)   2007 Year to Date: 601 ($148,468  Avg. per Sale)   2006 Year to Date: 646 ($147,956 Avg. per Sale)   2005 Year to Date: 562 ($139,592 Avg. per Sale)   2004 Year to Date: 588 ... 08/19/2008

Dubuque Real Estate E-Blast Did ya miss me? Don't answer that, because I know I missed writing more than a few tantalizing blog posts these last few weeks.  Three youngins' under that age of two and a half in the home will to that to a fella.  I usually write in my "off-hours" at home while taking in a good game or movie, but between the lack of sleep, the crying, and dirty diapers, it's been a heck of a month or two over here.   Well, regardless the business churns along, and it's actually been quite busy, we've seen quite an expansion in Dubuque's market inventory, see the market stats in a forthcoming post.  The side benefit to this expansion is the vast number of choice listing to feature in this week's featured homes post coming a bit later as well.   Lastly, there have been a lot... 08/19/2008

Check out this chart I'm keeping updated on my computer.  It shows the number of folks trying to sell each month versus the actual number that are selling each month (12 month rolling average), updated on August 19th, 2008...     08/19/2008

Featured Homes of the Week  This I'm going overboard in my featured listings, showing off a baker's dozen hot properties, there have been just too many new listings these last two weeks to not highlight many of them.  Make sure to check out 3670 Keystone, 17062 Castlemaine, and the million-dollar home at 21054 Country Squire - (Click here to see if $1 Million is a lot).      2395 Carter - $102,000   2955 Davenport - $115,000   930 Kane - $122,000   2185 Marion - $128,900   3670 Keystone - $149,500 (My first-ever home! I owned it from 1998 to 2004)   4563 Camelot - $187,000   3243 Brook Hollow - $209,500   2433 Spruce Wood - $219,900   3361 Ashley - $227,900   8492 Heidi Re Circle - $289,500   9479 Kemp - $389,000   17062 Castlemaine - $405,000 (in awesome Waterford Estates, no less!)  ... 06/26/2008