Tag Archives: housing prices

A Tough Sell

March 9, 2009 – 6:49 pm

From Newsday – Long Island Housing Market Is A Tough Sell
A Rocky Point home Gisela Skoglund and her family are trying to sell has been on the market for nearly two years. The property is large enough to build another house on, and the Skoglunds are asking $319,000.
“We’ve had a lot of people looking at [...]

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MLS Report – Goodbye 2008!

January 1, 2009 – 1:33 am

Oh the weather outside is frightful, and the real estate market isn’t any better.
Homes in Babylon

Total: 72
Babylon School District: 45
BSD and Under 600K: 26
Condos/Coops:10

The new year is upon us and sometimes it feels like the Red Queen’s race in the real estate market. The faster we go, the further behind we get.
Pickings [...]

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34 Homes in Babylon Pending Foreclosure

December 24, 2008 – 2:23 pm

Tom McGiveron has a new post up on foreclosure statistics in Nassau and Suffolk from RealtyTrac. RealtyTrac doesn’t have the best reputation for accuracy, but even still there’s bad new all around Suffolk county.
The big shock, 34 homes in foreclosure right here in Babylon. That may not seem like a lot. Looking at the numbers, [...]

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MLS Report – Autumn Leaves Are Falling

September 29, 2008 – 5:26 pm

The Summer is now officially over. Mostly it’s still hot and muggy, but there have been a few cold, wet, rainy days and a slight chill of Autumn is in the air. With the Summer goes the Summer selling season and consequently the number of homes on MLS is slowly dropping. A couple of homes [...]

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