9223 Mirkwood Dr., Knoxville, TN 37922

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The Death of Real Estate?

The Death of Real Estate?

With all the talk of the death of real estate as an investment, I thought it would be helpful to compare our local market with the Standard & Poors 500’s performance over the last decade. The S&P 500 is a weighted index based on the stock prices of 500 large, publicly held U.S. companies. If on New Year’s Day 2000 an individual bought a $100,000 home in Knoxville, and invested the same amount in a fund based on the S&P 500 index, the present day value of the home (if properly maintained) would be $141,810, and the present day value of the fund would be $70,028. A decade later not only is your home worth twice as much as the fund, but you have enjoyed a place to live and have received the tax benefit of the interest deduction if you carry a mortgage on the home.
* Statistics from Knoxville Assoc. of Realtors Median prices for 3 bedroom homes and www.standardandpoors.com

Reprinted from Knoxville News Sentinel, Home Market Now, Oct. 25, 2009

Video Library of East Tennessee

For a great Video Library of all things East Tennessee, check out this great site:
http://www.viewsandvisits.com/

Great Basement Rancher in Holston Hills

Take a look at the Virtual Tour for my new listing in the Holston Hills Subdivision.

The Devil's in the Details

If we keep our eyes open we can learn a lot from people we work with. This article I wrote for the Real Estate Section for our local newspaper is one such story:
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/oct/27/devils-details/

Funny Stories In a Day's Work

Check out this article about an event that happened to me. It's entitled "What Not to Wear":
http://www.realtor.org/archives/trenches200603