According to CoreLogic, home prices rose 3.3% statewide compared to 2012. This trend continued across the state with a few exceptions during the month of September. Prices fell in mobile along with four other metro areas that include Tuscaloosa, Huntsville, Aurburn-Opelika and Dothan. Distressed sales and foreclosures are dragging prices down in these areas, with the exception of Aurburn. In Mobile, Huntsville, Tuscaloosa and Dothan home prices would have increased if these short sales and foreclosures would have been excluded from the analysis.
The Auburn-Opelika market was the only market that prices would have still fallen even without the effect of the distressed property sales. This perplexing state is a question mark as to the reason. In…
The family firm of Walcot Adams Verneuille was chosen as the group to redesign the community park, Clay Adams didn't take it lightly. Adam's was part of the wellspring community action and fundraising established almost twenty years ago. The park sprawls over 2 acres and is located on Church st. in downtown Fairhope, AL.
Another Festival is in the books. Another successful turn out and condos were hard to come by this year as potential patrons were again waiting until the last minute to make reservations. We received numerous calls in the days leading up to the event. The Gulf Shores Shrimp Festival has added things over the past few years and has a multitude of things to do, see and even participate in while attending.