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By Jay
June 6, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
crap! It looks like my zip, 30319 in Dekalb has the steepest decline in price, and I’m getting ready to sell a house in that area. Does anyone know really what this means though. I’m selling an older brick ranch and those prices sill seem to be increasing or at least staying stable. I think the price drop is coming from all the overpriced tear-down McMansions that now aren’t selling…I knew the demand for those houses was overestimated. Just about every McMansion in my area of Ashford Park/Drew Valley that was built in the last 9 months remains unsold.
By Kitty
June 12, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this
A lot of these ‘low value’ homes were also connected to mortgage fraud. If one checks carefully you will find that many of the ‘inflated sales’ prices of past sales were a direct result of martage fraud. The house for $118k, just years later ‘sold’ for $21k; no it didn’t! There was corruption and someone actually stole the value out of that house.
By Allen
June 13, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this
I think these stats can be pretty misleading. In my zip a lot of condos have been sold in the past 2 or 3 years, at reduced prices, and that appears to be rolled in with the house prices into one “home sales’ figure. Am I wrong?
By Allen
June 13, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this
I think these stats can be pretty misleading. In my zip a lot of condos have been sold in the past 2 or 3 years, at reduced prices, and that appears to be rolled in with the house prices into one “home sales’ figure. Am I wrong?
By J
June 14, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this
What house sold for $720,000 in 30021? Hard to believe when I know of a house for less than $55,000 in the same zip. Does the -23% drop really show what’s happening in 30021 when prices have such a wide range and $100,000 was the median price in 2003. Slightly up in the years in between but you could say we’re up to $118,000 since 2003 ;)
By sml
June 15, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this
Home sales & values are dropping in Dekalb - somebody please tell the assessor. The moron raised appraisal pretty much across the board! So we poor homeowners wind up paying MORE taxes on homes that are actually worth LESS! Seems to me there was a tea party a couple hundred years ago for similar reasons!
By Margaret
June 22, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this
What I find amusing is the development of the week showcasing The Manor Golf and Country Club as a “great place” to move to..Funny how the AJC didn’t mention that the community is loaded with builders who are in trouble, with liens and lowering the home prices and devaluing the community with homes that cannot sell(already people doing resales trying to get out). Or that the community could not find “funding” for the clubhouse, or that there are foreclosures in their from builders who didn’t even FINISH homes..Bad development to showcase when there are so many other better and safer investment communitites to choose from in the Atlanta area..Next time AJC don’t bow to the desperate marketing department of a development in trouble..