January 2007
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For Buyers02 Jan 2007 01:03 pm
Five Steps To Buying The Right House
You have made the decision to purchase a house in the Mat-Su Valley. You recognize that you can get more house on more land by looking at Wasilla Real Estate and the surrounding area than you can in Anchorage. This is a good move, but now what?
Wasilla, Palmer, Alaska Listings
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$149,900 for this brand new home. 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 baths, almost an acre of land. Google Map.??Go here for more info |
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$270,000 4 bedroom, 2 bath on over 2 acres of land. Quality home that is only 5 years old. Google Map
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$110,000 2.7 acres of unrestricted land on Fairview Loop Road only 3 miles from the new hospital. This mobile home has been remodeled to be like new? More Info |
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Some of the nicest lots in the Mat-Su Valley?Paved streets, underground utilities, some lake front lots?.more info |
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$275,000 Ten acres of land just 3 miles north of Wasilla. This home is like new, go here for more info. |
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$235,000 Lakefront on Reed Lake. Over 2 acres of fantastic property. Map
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$395,000 Beautiful custom home just outside of Palmer. Lot?s and lots of extras. Map |
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$235,000 At the Matanuska Glacier. A world class view and a super house. More Info Here?? Google Map |
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$235,000 Family business opportunity. Acreage, View, More info.
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$184,500 Assessed at $256,000. This home is priced to SELL! More info here.
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?$275,000? Quality througout this 2,500 square foot home.? in-hloor heat, landscaped, hickory cabinets.? More Photos here |
A Fantastic Alaskan Log Home with a detached Log
Garage on almost five acres.? Located on Lazy Mountain
just outside of Palmer, Alaska?
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It’s not much of a photo, but after lots of tries I actually caught one burst of the modest fireworks displays I observed last night. It’s a new year…welcomed in today with more snow. I was up on Lazy Mountain where it looks like they got about twice as much snow as my area near Trunk Road.
In addition to the above snapshot, I thought I’d take a snapshot of the real estate market to see if it can tell us anything. I took a look at November of 2006 compared to November of 2005 See Market News for more about real estate trends. This is a comprehensive search of the Valley MLS system which includes data not only in Wasilla and Palmer but from Talkeetna and Trapper Creek to Sheep Mountain.
November of 2005 showed 265 closed residential sales at a median price of $208,000 which were on the market for 51 days. November 2006 showed 188 sales at a median price of $216,833 that spent 66 days on the market. 
What does this mean to you? While we could use a lot more info to get the whole picture, it does seem to show that our red hot market has cooled a little. Prices are still up but sales are slightly down at the end of the year. However, when we look at the market news for all of 2006 we don’t see much of a drop in sales.
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