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The West End Condos Sales Update

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:57:49 +0000

The auction a couple of months ago at The West End Condos was a great opportunity for buyers to pick up a bargain. These luxury one, two, and three bedrom units sold for around 55% of their asking price. For example, a three bedroom on the 6th floor with 2,525 square feet that was asking $948,000 went for $440,000. A two bedroom on the 4th floor with views of downtown that was listed at $645,000 went for $371,250. A one-bedroom on the 8th floor went for $253,000 at auction that had been priced $425,000.

Unfortunately, those deals seem to be gone. The sales agents representing The West End Condos said that only two of the buyers at the auction have backed out. The rest have closed or are in the process of closing. There were a few units that were not sold at auction – either because they were held back or the developer wouldn’t let them go at auction prices. There are still a handful of 2 and 3 bedrooms left, atlhough the developer is flatly turning down auction prices. Expect to pay 75% to 80% off the asking price, which still may be a good deal… Just not as good a deal as two months ago.

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5 Largest Condo Developments in Nashville

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:25:25 +0000

Buildings between 75 feet and 499 feet tall are considered high-rises. The average height of a single story of a high-rise is approximately 13 feet, thus a 78 foot tall building would have 6 total stories.

5 largest condo buildings in Nashville are:

1. The Icon in the Gulch – 419 condos
2. The Encore – 333 condos
3. The Viridian – 305 condos
4. The Adelicia – 186 condos
5. The Terrazzo – 117 condos

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The West End Condos Auction Results

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:40:05 +0000

John Coleman Hayes successfully sold at least 40 condos in the past 60 hours, 32 of which were sold during Saturday’s live auction.

The condo auction, held under a semi-heated tent in the West End’s motor court, was well attended with an estimated 185 potential buyers in attendance. Jerrold Pedigo began the auction promptly at 11:00am by telling auction bidders that 3 condos had sold the prior day and would no longer be a part the day’s auction. The auctioneer did not inform the crowd of the sales prices, but did identify the condos as unit numbers 602, 502 and 503, all 2 bedroom condos with excellent downtown views.

Once the auction began in earnest, the bidding was surprising brisk with the first condo garnering more than a dozen bids and eventually selling for $226.30/ft, an auction high. As expected the next several condos began to sell for slightly lower prices, but the real shock came for me just 5 lots later when the auctioneer accepted a bid of $174.26/ft. Most in the audience seemed surprised that the developer and bank were willing to accept rates lower than $180/ft as well.

Auction prices recovered soon after only to fall to $159.74/ft for the 10th lot auctioned, a 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 1,997 square foot monster condo on the fifth floor. The original asking price for this particular condo was $590,000, but the auction only brought…

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The Terrazzo Auction Results

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:37:44 +0000

The results of the Terrazzo auction are in and it appears that my predictions are right on target. 25 condos sold at an average price of $233.01 per foot with a couple of sales reaching over the $250/ft mark. The average total price of $283,600 represents 62.48% of the original asking prices at Terrazzo.

Approximately 220 people attended the auction at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Nashville, but I was never able to count more than 47 registered buyers. The auctioneers, Accelerated Marketing Partners, did add 4 new condos to the auction that were not listed prior to auction day.

21 condos sold during the actual auction and 4 sold after the bidding was stopped (marked as AA in the table below). The live auction portion lasted one hour and six minutes and the after auction sale only took 14 minutes. The entire auction and sale only lasted one hour and twenty minutes. In other words: During the 80 minute auction, $92,162.50 was spent per minute. Without further delay here are the complete auction results…

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Nashville Plans Free Wireless Internet for City

Grant Hammond — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:05:36 +0000

Nashville Technology Council President Todd Fetherling has told the Nashville Post that the organization plans to implement a free wireless Internet network in downtown Nashville. The group plans on placing its first transmitter in the central business district and believes that a strong wireless signal should emanate within a 0.9 mile radius. The location of this first transmitter will be the Nashville Technology Council’s headquarters located at Third Avenue and Commerce Street. The planned wireless network is a mesh network, sometimes called a mesh cloud, the system that most cellular companies currently use. According to Wiki, “A mesh network is reliable and offers redundancy. When one node can no longer operate, the rest of the nodes can still communicate with each other, directly or through one or more intermediate nodes.” To start, the program will go through a month-long pilot period that will begin later this month or in early February. The launch will cost about $3,100, which covers...

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Griffin Plaza Condo Site in Gulch Gets Reprieve

Grant Hammond — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:13:00 +0000

In 2007, Crosland Tennessee President Bill Barkley announced plans to develop a 2 acre parcel of land in the Gulch into Griffin Plaza, a $35 million 10 story project with 140 apartments and 32,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. With that announcement, the website went live and the buzz began to build with mentions of urban revitalization, green spaces, LEED certifications and urban pocket parks. However, as most of my readers know, 2007 was the very end of an era and the lender, First Carolina Bank, realized that turning dirt was not a prudent decision.

Fast forward a few years and rumblings of liquidity issues at both Crosland Tennessee and First Carolina Bank begin to emerge as the Southeastern real estate market continues a rather abrupt decline. At some point that Fall, Crosland does miss a $90,500 installment payment on their original $15 million loan and the stage is set. In late October 2009 a foreclosure filing was ordered and Crosland…

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Condo.com - Condo News — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:45:00 +0000

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Icon in the Gulch Big Winner or Buyers?

Grant Hammond — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:49:46 +0000

2009 was supposed to be a horrible year for Nashville condo sales, yet the Icon in the Gulch was able to sell and close 84 new condo contracts. By the pure number of closings, the Icon in the Gulch was certainly the big winner in terms of gross number of sales, but many may be surprised to learn that 84 condos only represents about 20% of the 419 unit building, the biggest residential condo building in Nashville. By my calculations the Icon is now 50% closed out leaving over 200 condos yet to be closed and that may represent a liability to current condo owners/buyers whose floor plan has not sold well during 2009.

As an example, the Verge floor plan is a sizable 1,100+ square foot 2 bedroom condo located in the midrise portion of the building and according to the tax record, none sold in 2009. 8 Verge condos did sell in 2008 that ranged in price from $331,000 to $411,250, but that still leaves 40 Verge units that remain to be contracted. Clearly, not many buyers are aware of these eccentricities since…

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2010 Mortgage Rate Predictions

Grant Hammond — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:41:25 +0000

Nashville mortgage rates ended 2009 above 5 percent, with Freddie Mac reporting 30-year fixed rates at an average 5.14 percent, still very affordable by historical standards. Although higher long-term borrowing costs late in the year could signal further increases for 2010, new data from Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, and the Mortgage Bankers Association indicates more borrowers are refinancing into 15-year loans in hopes of paying off home debt faster. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, 15-year fixed loans accounted for nearly 20 percent of refinance applications in October 2009 – up from 9.1 percent in October 2008 and 7.5 percent in October 2007. The jumbo mortgage market in Nashville will probably see some programs re-introduced, but underwritten more conservatively with larger down payment requirements. No income verification programs may return at premium rates, but from sources other than conventional...

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Condo.com Hires Top Executive to Lead Brokerage Development

Condo.com - Condo News — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:37:00 +0000

Miami, FL (January 4, 2009) – Condo.com, a leading online real estate portal and rapidly growing national real estate brokerage, has announced Jody Desnoyers as the company’s new Director of Training and Development. The company’s brokerage department works with condo buyers, sellers and renters around the country and will look to Desnoyers to help recruit, train and establish a process for additional agent growth to support customer demand. Condo.com offers several opportunities for agents such as: condo listings, advertising and free networking tools including the ability to create profiles, provide advice to qualified users, post blogs and upload videos. The company offers a complete agent and broker experience through training and certification programs. Agents receive qualified leads, marketing support, a CRM account, and now- a more robust training and coaching program set to be launched by Desnoyers in the next 60-days.

As the new Director, Jody will be focused on the training, recruitment, and retention of all agent development programs. Specifically, his plan includes further development of the “agent toolbox” complete with seller and buyer presentations, useful handouts and pertinent industry news - all with the purpose of enhancing the brokerage team’s effectiveness, agent by agent, and ultimately resulting in higher lead conversion. “Jody’s addition to the department further enables us to develop into the world’s largest condo brokerage”, stated Richard Swerdlow, Founder and CEO.

Prior to joining, Condo.com, Mr. Desnoyers began his real estate career as an agent for Foxtons, Inc. where he sold over $40 million worth of residential real estate in his first 18 months. He went on to manage and train teams of agents responsible for over 1,000 closed real estate transactions while serving as Director of Operations – South Florida and Broker of Record for Home Discovery Inc, Broker / Owner for Empower Realty. Most recently he was Broker of Record & Regional Sales Manager – New York for Lending Tree's residential real estate subsidiary, RealEstate.com. Jody brings a breadth of real estate brokerage knowledge and experience to the Condo.com team, particularly within lead generation and web-based brokerage business models. Jody majored in communications and played baseball at Canisius College before earning a Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology from the Plattsburgh State University in New York. .

About Condo.com
Condo.com (www.condo.com) is the world's largest condominium marketplace with over 800,000 listings valued in excess of $250 billion. The site is a consumer-facing, online real estate portal which receives over 1 million visitors monthly and is dedicated to the evolution and prosperity of the condominium real estate market. Condo.com improves and simplifies the way people buy, sell, rent, live and vacation in condos. Condo.com lists condos for sale and for rent in the United States and 70+ countries around the world. The Company cost-effectively delivers exposure and qualified leads to developers, brokers and owners through the seamless distribution of its listings to a global network of real estate websites visited by over 15 million viewers per month. The company is also a licensed real estate brokerage business in multiple markets and has a growing nationwide network of licensed real estate agents providing brokerage services. Condo.com is privately held and headquartered in Miami, Florida

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