One of the most overlooked aspects in selling homes, I believe, is the absorption rate or the ability to sell off all the homes in a region that are currently for sale. It is tallied in a relatively simple manner- even for non-stat nerds (which I, unfortunately, am NOT a part of)... Take the number of homes that have sold in an area over a period of time (6 months, one year, whatever). Divide it by the amount of time (six months by 6, one year by 12 and so on). That will give you the amount of homes that sell per month. Divide number of homes currently for sale by the amount of homes that sell per month and you will find out how many months of inventory are available. Coal City/ Diamond/ Carbon Hill's detached homes for 5-18-08: 83 sold in the last 12 months....or 6.9 per month 88 activ...
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