It’s hard to believe we are only one month away from Thanksgiving and Halloween is next week! It seems like this year has just flown by. We hope this month’s newsletter finds you and those you care about happy and healthy. This is a busy time for our team and events we are organizing for YOU!
Steve and his family enjoyed some down time for Fall Break. Steve and Brigid got away for a long weekend with some agents from his office to Lexington, KY and the Bourbon Trail. We enjoyed a short river cruise followed by some distillery tours and then enjoyed some racing at Keeneland race track. We also were able to see one of Brigid’s former co-workers who owns a horse ranch down there and see his property. Absolutely beautiful!
After coming home for a day, we left for Ft. Meyers, FL, sans Ana who had to stay home as her Fall Break was the following week and is only two days. She enjoyed spending time with Steve’s parents. Tali spent the next few days with Brigid’s parents and then met up with a former neighbor who lives in Miami, FL now while Steve and Brigid took a ferry to Key West for a few days. Steve and Tali flew home and Brigid flew to Charlotte to meet up with Ana and a friend and her mom to do some college visits. They saw Wake Forest, University of South Carolina, Clemson, and UNC-Chapel Hill. She has also toured Purdue and University of Tampa. Right now, Clemson is the front-runner as she wants to study Industrial Engineering and design concept cars and Clemson has the only undergraduate program in the country for that. We will see.
Patti enjoyed a couple of weeks of vacation a few weeks ago down to Florida and we are so happy to have her back working on all of the events we have coming up!!!
Kylie’s birthday was last week and she went to Gatlinburg, TN with her family for a few days to relax and spend time with them. We look forward to her return as well.
Thea is working hard finding buyers homes. She had quite a few weddings to attend this year and her last one is the beginning of November. She is looking forward to staying home for a bit!
The housing market continues to be extremely competitive, although not quite as bad as this spring was. We are still super-short on inventory, however if you or someone you care about is looking for a new home this is a great time to look as competition isn’t quite as fierce and interest rates are still super-low, around 3%. We expect those to continue to creep up.
We continue our 100 videos in 100 days challenge. Hopefully, you have had a chance to watch some of them and like and subscribe to our channel. If not, please visit it here: www.youtube.com/IndyRupp
We had a great October Happy Hour last week with lots of old and new faces. If you haven’t had a chance to join us, please consider doing so for our last Happy Hour of the year in November. You can find us at Matt The Miller’s in Carmel from 5-6:30pm on Thursday, November 18th. Please RSVP to Patti at Patti@Welcome2Indy.com. We would love to see you, and as always, food and drinks are on us. Thank you to our amazing real estate photographer 360-Tours for sponsoring our October Happy Hour.
Then, on Sunday, November 21st from 11AM-3PM, please join us for Pictures with Santa at our office. Last year, Santa wasn’t able to make it due to COVID, but he is BACK this year!!! We will have the Winter Wonderland, Letters to Santa, Professional Photos, Naughty or Nice station and lots of treats. Please join us!!! RSVP to patti@Welcome2Indy.com
Look for more info coming soon for our 4th Quarter Prize Giveaway!! This quarter is focused on pampering. If you need a little self-care, stay tuned as you will not want to miss this prize package! Make sure you like our Facebook page @TheZuluGroup to make sure you don’t miss our announcements for this amazing prize package.
You should have received our Pie Giveaway postcard recently. Since a crowded movie theater isn’t safe yet, we are going to repeat our very popular Pie Giveaway again this year co-sponsored by our lender partner Mark Kuchik with CrossCountry Mortgage. Mark your calendars for Tuesday, November 23rd from 11AM-6PM to stop by our office to pick up your FREE pie. This is our way of saying thank you for being such great clients, referral partners, and friends. The pies are custom made fresh for us and feature apple, cherry (new this year), and a pie made just for this event and was the #1 choice last year- Steve & Mark’s Perfectly Peach Pie. You MUST reserve your pie by 5pm, Friday, November 19th in order to pick it up. These are being made for us by a small local bakery No Label at The Table. It employs young people on the autism spectrum and the pies are gluten, dairy, and nut free, but not taste-free. We challenge you to find a ‘regular’ pie that tastes as good. In addition, we are donating 50 pies to Student Impact of Westfield which will be supplying them to families in need who wouldn’t usually have a Thanksgiving dinner. We absolutely LOVE this event and all of the people it impacts and hope you will stop by and pick up a pie as a part of your Thanksgiving meal.
As stated earlier, the housing market continues to be strong, however it is showing some signs of slowing just a bit. Here are some stats from MIBOR comparing September 2021 to August 2021:
Median Sales Price-UP 0.4% to $254,062
Closed Sales-DOWN 5.7% to 3,645 units
New Listings-DOWN 8.2% to 3,872 units
Pending Sales-DOWN 8.9% to 3,684 units
Days on Market-UP 18.8% to 19 days
Price per s.f.-UP 1.4% to $149
% of Ask Received-DOWN 0.6% to 100.5%
Active Inventory-UP 5.4% to 2,646 units
Absorption Rate-UP 16.7% to 0.7 months
We hope you enjoy Halloween and if we don’t talk with you before, here’s to hoping you are able to relax and enjoy Thanksgiving with your family and friends and are able to give thanks for the many blessings you have. You are one of those blessings we are counting at our table. :-)
Enjoy the Thanksgiving edition of our newsletter! Click here to read it. Hope to see you at one or more of our November events!
Your Friends in Real Estate,
Steve, Kylie, Patti, and Thea
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