Carolyn Gjerde-Tu's Blog: Real Estate

The average sales price for homes in Winters declined 33.9%  from $339,000 to $224,000 from March 2008 to March 2009.  Like so much of the greater Sacramento region, the majority of sales in Winters for March were REO’s/Foreclosures, only one out of the six sales were not bank owned homes.  March Trendgraphix information indicates that 11 out of the 33 homes listed for sale were foreclosed homes.  To get an idea of where the market is headed, the number of listed foreclosed properties is a good indicator to watch.

Winters, CA is a small town with a population of 6,990 (July 2007) so everything that happens is at a much smaller scale but the numbers do fit into trends seen in the greater…

I started blogging on Active Rain and Real Estate Webmasters about the same time- the last quarter of 2007.  I actually have more posts on my AR blog than my REW blog but I've spent more time recently on REW for a lot of reasons but thought it might be an interesting test to see which blog had more strength. 

Both my Active Rain and Real Estate Webmaster blogs have posts on that rank on the first page of google for similar types of terms.  Both blogs have a couple of posts that pull in a moderate amount of traffic - although one brings in a steadier stream than the other. 

I realize this isn't a completely scientific test - other people are more than welcome to do something similar - more data points the better.  There are so many cities I haven't…