South Bend Real Estate Report: September 1, 2012 – February 28, 2013
Pick your favorite news source and odds are it’s promoting a story of a housing recovery this Spring. Another not-too-risky bet is that it called the drop in house values and the slowdown in sales the “correction” of a bubble. But it can’t go both ways. If the crash was a correction, then prices headed […]
Google Maps Updates South Bend Imagery
Google Maps and Earth recently updated their imagery of the South Bend Area, resulting in maps that show crisp and recent views of the new construction near Notre Dame. Most images appear to be from April 28, 2011. If you combine these new photos with Google Earth’s historical imagery, you can quickly get a sense […]
Finished Rehabbing, Back to Blogging
Two years ago, in May 2009 I bought a house that needed some work. Two months ago, in April, I decided to move up the completion of the project by a year and sell the house this summer. From that decision until today, there haven’t been any new features on the South Bend Area Blog, […]
Pending Sales and the Tax Credit
With a few exceptions (notably for members of the military stationed overseas), you had to be in a binding contract by April 30th as one of the criteria to qualify for the heavily promoted income tax credit that is available to some home buyers. Personally and based upon my own conversations with people whose workflow […]
On True Thanks
Turkey Trail is a mile and a half stretch of county road between Roosevelt and Miller Roads on the south side of South Bend. It has a mix of modest homes built decades ago, farmland, and expensive newer homes on large lots – the result of a St. Joseph County zoning rule which requires a […]