Despite the media reports on "slowing" home sales to the economy, we have not found this to be true in Jasper County! Our sales have remained stable the last 2 months with buyers continuing to be conservative. Our year to date market share is 42% of the sales in the Newton community. We feel a large part of our success is our commanding presence on the internet and our websites doyledevoe.com and NewtonIowaRealty.com. Newton is a wonderful place to live and more and more poeple are realizing this! 06/03/2010

This morning I watched the "real estate expert" on the Today show.  I really think she talked out of both sides of her mouth.  She kept telling us how the market had turned around.  And then she kept talking about how for every 2 houses currently on the market that hasn't sold there is a 3rd one just waiting to come on.   I just didn't understand her thinking on how this was making the price of homes rise.  My thoughts on our local market:  The real estate market in Newton, Iowa has seen a decrease in the number of foreclosures coming on the market.  Our prices seem to be stable.  But homes still need to be priced well and in move in condition to sell quickly and for the most money.   10/20/2009

I would love to hear anyone's input on registering on Realtor's websites. I have two websites currently for Newton, Ia the first one is http://www.doyledevoe.com/ and my other one is http://www.newtoniowarealty.com/ one is from Best Image Marketing and the other one is prostepmarketing. A couple of months ago I decided to make everyone register if they wanted to see interior photos of homes so the customer has to put in his name, phone number, e-mail address then he can look at homes on our website to his heart content. Obviously the reason I make them register is to capture more leads for  our listings.This past week I recieved a nasty note from a guy and he really gave me a earful on what he thought about signing up on my website. I emailed him back with a nicey nicey note. I bet he w... 04/02/2008