![]() ![]() Watch Video: WATCH: Veteran Realtor Alisa Rogers joins new Ormond Beach realty firm Gap widens between haves, have-nots The median amount of time it took for homes on the market to be put under contract in September was 13 days in the Daytona Beach, compared with 27 a year ago, and 10 days in Flagler County, compared with 36 in September 2020. "Even vacant lots are going fast," she said. Rogers said she currently only has two property listings, both for vacant land in Daytona Beach, because of the difficulty in finding existing homes for sale. "Last year, everybody had a lot of business, but now that inventory levels are low, some are being very creating in obtaining business and some of it is not ethical." That wasn't the case in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, said Rogers. "Some actually will pay the find and don't care." ![]() We've had quite a few fined every month for at least the past year," she said. "I sit on the MLS (Multiple Listing Service) committee for the Daytona Beach area. which means the Realtor is subject to a fine. If a house is advertised as "coming soon" and its not immediately put on the market within one calendar day, it is a violation of the Daytona Beach Area Association of Realtors' code of conduct. Some agents are resorting to unethical tactics such as making social media posts of existing single-family homes as "coming soon" even though they have yet to actually be put on the market, said Rogers. Rogers said the scarcity of homes for sale is causing some real estate agents to "get creative in getting listings." The tactics include making unsolicited phone calls to neighbors of recently sold homes to see if they might be interested in putting their property on the market, as well as sending out post cards and even knocking on people's doors, she said. LEFT IN THE COLD: Red-hot real estate market freezes out some would-be home buyersĪFFORDABLE HOUSING: Projects compete to secure government assistance to provide low-cost homes 'Getting creative' to land listings GOING, GOING, GONE: Homes selling briskly, despite record high prices RECORD SALE: Luxury home fetches $5.1 million in Ormond Beach, most-ever in Volusia County "We're seeing a lot more non-member agents than usual." "We're still getting quite a few new members," said Pittman. ![]() As of Monday, the Flagler County Association of Realtors now has 1,546 members, which is a ratio of more than 3-to-1 compared to the number of homes for sale in the county, according to Cassandra Pittman, the association's office manager.Ī year ago, the Flagler County Association of Realtors had 1,376 members, a ratio of roughly 2-to-1 compared with the 621 active listings of homes for sale in September 2020. Meanwhile, the number of Realtors in Flagler County also continues to grow. The median sale price of the homes sold last month rose 18% year-over-year to a near record high $330,000, up from $327,500 in August and $279,310 in September 2020.įlagler County had 435 active listings of homes for sale as of the end of September, down 30% from 621 the same month a year ago. The Flagler County Association of Realtors reported that its agents in September completed sales of 330 existing single-family homes, up from 283 in August as well as 321 in September of last year. The inventory of available homes county-wide last month was 1,324, down 12% from 1,509 a year ago. The median sale price of existing homes sold Volusia County-wide rose 16.5% to $291,250 in September, up from $250,000 a year ago and down slightly from $295,000 in August. Looking at the entire Volusia County, Realtors in September completed 921 sales of existing single-family homes, down from 973 in August and 932 a year ago, according to Florida Realtors data provided by the West Volusia Association of Realtors. Median sale prices, meaning half were higher and half lower, rose in the Daytona Beach area 18% year-over-year to $325,000 in September, up from $275,000 the same month last year, but just shy of the record $330,000 set in August. Area Realtors also put 505 homes under contract in September, down from 524 in August, but essentially steady with the 503 new pending sales recorded in September of last year. That number was up slightly to 709 as of Monday, according to Rogers.ĭespite the scarcity of homes for sale, the number of closed sales in the Daytona Beach area inched higher to 499 in September, compared with 476 in August. As of the end of September, the Daytona Beach area had 674 active listings of existing single-family homes for sale, down 28.9% from 948 a year ago, according to the latest monthly home sales report issued by the Daytona Beach Area Association of Realtors. ![]()
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