Brad Long's (bradlongrealestategroup) Blog

Selling your Louisville home can be a fierce, stressful ordeal in a market like this one. Ideally, homeowners will do everything they can to prepare their house for a sell, especially when they’re faced with competition from neighboring houses and a weakened real estate market. But sometimes, it’...

Having the most current market conditions is critical when buying or selling St Matthews real estate. Below is a list of the homes that have sold and closed in the St Matthews (40207) area in the last 30 days. From this report it appears that the recently sold homes are bringing closer to asking ...

  It’s very important to understand the current market conditions when buying or selling St Matthews real estate. Below is a list of the homes that have sold and closed in the St Matthews (40207) area in the last 45 days.  From this chart you can see that in many cases, sellers are taking conside...

Last week Stacey (one of my buyer's agents) asked me to work with one of her buyers so she could spend the day with her son.  No problem there as I love working with buyers - Thursday the client sent me 15 listings she wished to see.  After mapping and printing them all out; what do you know? 8 o...

As of June 26th there were 6527 active listings listed in the MLS for Jefferson County representing a 8.7 month supply of homes. 5.5 months is considered optimum and to be a balanced market. As can be seen from the list below the absorbtion rate is very area dependent with St Matthews and the Hig...

The local real estate activity slowed considerably in the third quarter, with sales down and inventory escalating dramatically.  It would appear that we are currently experiencing a buyers market.  The reasons for this are a little hard to figure out considering that we haven't experienced any ma...