Week Ending February 26, 2010 Total Number of Homes For Sale in the Des Moines Area – 4645 New Listings Taken During the Last 7 Days – 267 Accepted Offers (Pendings) During the Last 7 Days – 155 Homes Closed (Solds) During the Last 7 Days – 95 Average Sale Price of Solds – $151,550 […]
Archives: February 2010
Des Moines Pets Vaccination Awareness Week March 1st, 2010
UPDATE** Willie Was Released Today From Animal Control To Spend His Quarantine At Home **UPDATE I am personally proclaiming the week of March 1st, 2009 as Des Moines Pets Vaccination Awareness Week. To bring everyone up to speed, on the evening of February 25th, 2010, my dog Willie, a 5 year old West Highland Terrier was […]
NAR General Counsel Laurie Janik Top 10 Legal Issues for 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 by Les Sulgrove I want to start this blog with a disclaimer. The photograph of Laurie is one that I took. It belongs to me. I have the original image data from my digital camera recorded and any re-use of this image without my expressed written permission is prohibited. Yes it’s […]
Did We Dodge A Big Snowstorm?
Sunday, February 21, 2010 by Les Sulgrove Are we living right this weekend in Des Moines? Do we deserve a break in the weather department? Did someone pull some strings and give our snow shovels a breather? The image above was captured at 4:00pm here in Des Moines and by all indications, it appears that […]
Des Moines Real Estate Statistics Week Ending 2-19-10
Des Moines Real Estate Statistics Week Ending 2-12-10
Des Moines Real Estate Statistics Week Ending 2-5-10
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Conventional Financing Remained Tops in 2009
Conventional Financing remained the most popular way to buy a home in Des Moines, Iowa in 2009 at 45.9%. However it was substantially lower than 2008 when 62.2% of buyers bought with a Conventional mortgage. Coming in second this year was FHA financing at 34.3%. FHA appeared to have picked up the previously Conventional business […]