Welcome to Fall!!! We hope your summer was fun and that you were able to take a little time away maybe for a vacation or at least some downtime and are now looking forward to some fun Fall activities. From apple stores, to hot apple cider, to corn mazes and apple donuts and hayrides with bonfires, and haunted houses, we hope that you will take advantage of some fun Fall activities.
As I write this letter, I am sitting in the San Francisco airport awaiting my flight back home after spending several days with 11 other top agents from across North America in a small-group training program designed to teach us how to provide an even higher level of service to our clients. In a world of technology and automation, which are good and which we use heavily, the role your real estate consultant plays continues to be more important than ever, providing a highly localized, specialized and hyper-sensitive personalized level of service that just can't be touched by a computer or website. We know our clients have many choices when you choose to buy, sell, or build a new home and we want to reassure you that you will never receive a higher level of service or knowledge anywhere else. We are grateful to you, our tribe, and will always be here for you and those you care about when you need us most and will always guide, lead, and protect you during one of the most important times and decisions of your lives. Thank you for continuing to place your trust in us. We will continue to work hard at deserving it!
Brigid, Ana, Tali, & I are excited to go to Boston over Fall Break to see our new niece Elsie Monaghan! She is the second daughter of Brigid's brother Jim and we couldn't be any happier for them! Ana and Tali cannot wait to see their new cousin and love all over her! Ana is enjoying her Freshman year and is helping with the Dance Marathon to be held in the spring. She continues to sing in the school choir and is entering 'busy season' for Indianapolis Children's Choir with a concert Saturday and Sunday night and then she starts practicing for my favorite concert of the year, which is Angel's Sing, which you can see on WTHR Channel 13 around Christmas. She is also singing around Hamilton County with her rock band. If you would like to know where her next concert is, let me know. They sound really good!!!!
Tali is preparing for the start of her competition season in gymnastics. She is excited and will be competing at a higher level than last year, so things will be much more competitive. She is up for the challenge!!
Brigid is is still doing well at Merck and enjoying a little less responsibility this year with special assignments and trainings and is able to focus on just her job.
Jack and Mary Anne are home for the foreseeable future with no big vacations planned the rest of the year. After extensive traveling this year, they are looking forward to staying at home for a while.
The real estate market has been very strange the past few months. Usually, July 4th brings a lull in the market as people take vacations and prepare for school. The market usually picks back up again mid-August, but due to many factors, including the up and down market, it wasn't until mid-September that it picked back up again...and boy, did it ever. If you are thinking about selling yet this year, please give us a call. We would welcome the opportunity to share details about this market and how you can benefit from its resurgence from the summer lull.
Here are some market stats comparing September 2019 to September 2018:
Number of Units Sold-DOWN 0.9% to 2,967 units
Number of New Listings-FLAT at 3,551 units
Average Days on Market-DOWN 0.6% to 40 days
Inventory-DOWN 7.6% to 6,328 units
Median Sales Price-UP 5.6% to $190,000
Average Price/s.f.-UP 5.5% to $113
Percent of Asking Price Received-DOWN 0.2% to 97.4%
Months Supply of Inventory-DOWN 6.8% to 2.1 months
Now, these numbers look pretty strong, however the month over month numbers show a softening of the market, so keep this in mind as you consider buying/selling in the upcoming months. Call us to learn how this will affect you specifically and your situation.
**Please join us for our October Happy Hour which is pushed back one week due to Fall Break. We will meet on October 24th from 5-6:30pm at Matt The Miller's in Carmel. Come join us!! We had a fun time and a great group last month!
**Hope you received your 'Save The Date' postcard in the mail a few weeks ago for our 7th annual Client Appreciation Event on December 7th at 8:30AM at Hamilton Town Center where we will be showing Frozen 2. We will have food, photo opps and a caricature artist again. Look for your official invite very soon and we hope you will make time to join us again!!!
Thank you for being part of our tribe!! Please let us know what else we can do to help you or someone you care about. Happy Fall!!!
Click here to read our October newsletter
Click here to access coupons for places you shop every day
Click here to watch a 1-minute video about what happened this month in real estate
Click here to watch what other people are saying about our service
Click here to read about our Senior Advantage Program
Click here to download the most powerful real estate app available
Your Friends in Real Estate,
Steve, Jack, Kylie, Thea, & Patti
As I write this letter, I am sitting in the San Francisco airport awaiting my flight back home after spending several days with 11 other top agents from across North America in a small-group training program designed to teach us how to provide an even higher level of service to our clients. In a world of technology and automation, which are good and which we use heavily, the role your real estate consultant plays continues to be more important than ever, providing a highly localized, specialized and hyper-sensitive personalized level of service that just can't be touched by a computer or website. We know our clients have many choices when you choose to buy, sell, or build a new home and we want to reassure you that you will never receive a higher level of service or knowledge anywhere else. We are grateful to you, our tribe, and will always be here for you and those you care about when you need us most and will always guide, lead, and protect you during one of the most important times and decisions of your lives. Thank you for continuing to place your trust in us. We will continue to work hard at deserving it!
Brigid, Ana, Tali, & I are excited to go to Boston over Fall Break to see our new niece Elsie Monaghan! She is the second daughter of Brigid's brother Jim and we couldn't be any happier for them! Ana and Tali cannot wait to see their new cousin and love all over her! Ana is enjoying her Freshman year and is helping with the Dance Marathon to be held in the spring. She continues to sing in the school choir and is entering 'busy season' for Indianapolis Children's Choir with a concert Saturday and Sunday night and then she starts practicing for my favorite concert of the year, which is Angel's Sing, which you can see on WTHR Channel 13 around Christmas. She is also singing around Hamilton County with her rock band. If you would like to know where her next concert is, let me know. They sound really good!!!!
Tali is preparing for the start of her competition season in gymnastics. She is excited and will be competing at a higher level than last year, so things will be much more competitive. She is up for the challenge!!
Brigid is is still doing well at Merck and enjoying a little less responsibility this year with special assignments and trainings and is able to focus on just her job.
Jack and Mary Anne are home for the foreseeable future with no big vacations planned the rest of the year. After extensive traveling this year, they are looking forward to staying at home for a while.
The real estate market has been very strange the past few months. Usually, July 4th brings a lull in the market as people take vacations and prepare for school. The market usually picks back up again mid-August, but due to many factors, including the up and down market, it wasn't until mid-September that it picked back up again...and boy, did it ever. If you are thinking about selling yet this year, please give us a call. We would welcome the opportunity to share details about this market and how you can benefit from its resurgence from the summer lull.
Here are some market stats comparing September 2019 to September 2018:
Number of Units Sold-DOWN 0.9% to 2,967 units
Number of New Listings-FLAT at 3,551 units
Average Days on Market-DOWN 0.6% to 40 days
Inventory-DOWN 7.6% to 6,328 units
Median Sales Price-UP 5.6% to $190,000
Average Price/s.f.-UP 5.5% to $113
Percent of Asking Price Received-DOWN 0.2% to 97.4%
Months Supply of Inventory-DOWN 6.8% to 2.1 months
Now, these numbers look pretty strong, however the month over month numbers show a softening of the market, so keep this in mind as you consider buying/selling in the upcoming months. Call us to learn how this will affect you specifically and your situation.
**Please join us for our October Happy Hour which is pushed back one week due to Fall Break. We will meet on October 24th from 5-6:30pm at Matt The Miller's in Carmel. Come join us!! We had a fun time and a great group last month!
**Hope you received your 'Save The Date' postcard in the mail a few weeks ago for our 7th annual Client Appreciation Event on December 7th at 8:30AM at Hamilton Town Center where we will be showing Frozen 2. We will have food, photo opps and a caricature artist again. Look for your official invite very soon and we hope you will make time to join us again!!!
Thank you for being part of our tribe!! Please let us know what else we can do to help you or someone you care about. Happy Fall!!!
Click here to read our October newsletter
Click here to access coupons for places you shop every day
Click here to watch a 1-minute video about what happened this month in real estate
Click here to watch what other people are saying about our service
Click here to read about our Senior Advantage Program
Click here to download the most powerful real estate app available
Your Friends in Real Estate,
Steve, Jack, Kylie, Thea, & Patti
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