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There are 539 licensed Realtors that belong to the Peoria Area Association of Realtors as of the end of 2015. Our team, which consists of myself and Jennifer, along with Brandee Seelye and Cathy Maloney, closed the year with 128 sold homes, which amounted to $43.5 Million in closed transactions for 2015, which […]
By graphic, I don’t mean bloody or gory or anything negative, but rather a nice little compilation of our year in summary for home sales in 2015 for the Peoria area. You can also get to this by click on the link on our home page for the Monthly Market Report. Otherwise, you can click […]
The supply of new constructions is still pretty consistent compared to the last 2-3 years. Between 2011 and 2012 there was a major decline in the number of new constructions being built, but for 2013, 2014, and 2015 it was pretty much the same. Currently, for 2015 at least, there is a 6.6 month […]
New homes coming on the market in 2015 were up about 6% from 2014, for a total of 8,632 homes listed in 2015. Some of this is because our Peoria Area Association of Realtors absorbed another MLS from the western side of the state that included areas like Macomb and Dahinda (Oak […]
Had a nice start to the day on Friday while sitting in on an update on the Caterpillar Community Relations manager, Henry Vicary. Mr. Vicary covered a host of topics that were on everyone’s mind, ranging from what the recent company wide reorganization looked like, to what Caterpillar’s future is in central Illinois and the […]
I just finished reading a book that was pretty interesting called “Sapiens:A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari. Sometimes I read something, or hear something, that I want to keep handy, close by or pass along to our kids. This is just such a passage. It had nothing to do with homes, but […]
It has been a little over a week since Caterpillar made their announcement about a reduction in its work force globally and I’ve seen a wild range of reactions. I’ve had a few transactions this past week that had some bumps in the road because the buyers were Caterpillar employees that suddenly had some employment […]
It has been an interesting week to say the least. Last week Caterpillar announced a series of reductions in its workforce to help it stay in line with the current reduction in manufacturing demands that they are seeing globally. The first round of reductions will be in the form of early retirement options for those […]
We live in Dunlap, but we help home buyers and sellers everywhere. Because we live in Dunlap however, we have a lot of questions that pertain to the area. If you would like any detailed reports for any of the surrounding areas, just drop us an email and we would be happy to send one […]
Ok….let’s talk numbers. The August numbers came out today for sales across the area so let’s see what it looks like. Also-if you would like to see the detailed report, click on the link on the home page of www.markmonge.com where it says Monthly Market Report. The number of closed sales in Aug […]
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