Open House Alert - 122 Winners Way

Please come!  Sunday, 12:00 to 2:00

So it might be a little odd to feature the master bedroom, but this one is huge!  To the left is a large walk-in closet.  The window to the right overlooks the yard.  I took this photo from the doorway to the master bath. The bed/bath covers the entire rear of the house.  Add two other bedrooms of decent size, a hall bath, and a loft and it has plenty of room.  We even looked into turning the loft space into another bedroom, if needed.

The downstairs - right under the master, is an eat-in kitchen with 42" maple cabinets and a family room with gas fireplace.  The table where you can eat while watching TV looks out on a stampcrete patio.  This is the Country Creek community, and behind the pretty stand of trees you see is Nine Mile Creek.  The downstairs also has 9' ceilings, a half bath, and front room that is set up as a formal dining room now but could be a den or play area or whatever you want it to be.

Please come and see it - I will have something nutritional to eat!  The price is $195,000 - you certainly could not build this home for that these days.  Figure principal, insurance, taxes and interest - your payment (depending on what you put down in cash at closing) would most likely be about $1750 per month, more or less.  Certainly it would cost more to rent - and then the rent is gone, not building equity or reducing your taxes.

The ML# is S315580 so you can see more photos....the address is actually Warners (13164) but the town is still Camillus and the school system is West Genesee.

Skaneateles Real Estate Update - The Fast Fall Version

This covers September 16th through October 24th.  I do the research and write out the information that I want to convey, and then usually write the blog.  Some weeks - like this past one - were horrendously difficult.  I had three sales that took a long time coming were actually finalized.  Hooray!  I had two other deals fall apart - not so hooray - for varying reasons (home inspection and financing - ugh!) that could not be fixed, despite efforts.  I also got two more listings that will appear shortly, if all goes well.  Add to that doctors' appointments (annual), a trip to Ithaca to straighten out my ever-slowing metabolism, and Bob completely renovating my bathroom and it was too much!  This weekend will be about catching up and taking back control.  Phew!

Quickly, before my new cat, Louie, decides he must publish this by walking over the keyboard...

There are 103 active listings in the Skaneateles area of the multiple listing service.  Of these, 24 are in the Village and 19 are waterfront.  Ten of these listings - just about 10% - are above one million.

Twenty-two new listings came on the market during this five week span.  Seven were in the Village and 2 were waterfront.  We now have 79 sold properties for the year.  Seventeen were closed during this time, of which 7 were Village and 4 were waterfront homes.  Three were over a million.

The last update was named "fast finish..." I think we are getting there rapidly.

Open House Alert! 2 Green Street in Camillus Village

Sunday - 12:00 to 2:00 - 2 Green Street will be open.  Please come!

The Library

This is my favorite photo of the house.  The furniture is gone now, but you can see just how lovely it all could be.  To the right is a small porch looking out onto the side street.  Through the door in the rear is a full bath.  Voila!  First floor suite!

It's an older home - mid-1800s, but the owner assures me that 95% of the plaster in the house is gone.  In the front parlor is a woodstove, but the boiler is new within the past 10 years and keeps the utility bills low, even for so large a home.

The seller added a fence to make the back yard more private. At the far end is a barn that can be used as a garage.

Upstairs are at least four bedrooms (depends on how you count the rooms) and the washer and dryer!  And yes, there is another full bath.

It's a great house, and always gets "lookers."  This time I would love to see buyers as well!

ML#S315932 - Price: $154,900

Open House Alert! Sunday, October 19th

Come one, come all!  At the far end of Scenic Meadows in Camillus, high on a hill, is 125 Snowberry Lane.  It is on the market for $299,000 - MLS#S320784.  I don't have access to photos here at the office, so I guess you will either have to come to the open house tomorrow between 12:00 and 2:00 or check it out on the internet.

But you miss things online.  The neighborhood looks quite lovely this time of year.  First, there are the decorations all the houses have put in their front lawns.  Curb appeal!  Trick or treating up there (and it is up there, above 695) must be wonderful.  One of the early houses as you climb up the hill has a huge black cat and white ghost.  Actually, it's the home I sold last year and the buyers seem quite happy there.

Then there are the views.  You can see far out over to Syracuse, but it's the fall foliage you will remember now.  Think of walking the loop - a long cul de sac. I am envious!

The home itself, 125 Snowberry, has over 1.5 acres, possibly more than any other house up there.  It's not super-huge, and neither is the price (under 300K).  It still has a morning room, four bedrooms, 2.5 baths, but also a walkout basement.  That square footage is not included in the listing, but if it were it would be well over 3500 square feet.

But come see, judge for yourself, imagine what you would do with that space.  And take a walk around the neighborhood.  Can you see living there?  Raising your family there?  Even retiring there - nice and quiet!

See you Sunday!  Please sign in - there will be an incentive for an early offer.

The Third Twenty (sort of..)

I went back through the listings that have closed, and by golly I could only come up with 19 since early July until the 60th closing.  Since there are many more that have closed since then, I just better get a move on these before I have another 20 to report.

In no particular order:

1020 Ten Mile Point          Town of Spafford             $177,900

191 East Genesee Street     Village of Skaneateles      $214,000

4599 Hoyt Road                Town of Skaneateles         $345,450

4028 Jordan Road              Town of Skaneateles        $180,000

10 East Street                     Village of Skaneateles       $255,000

3319 Rose Hill Road           Town of Skaneateles        $182,000

3882 Highland Avenue        Town of Skaneateles        $300,000

5611 Mack Road                Town of Niles                  $314,900

2123 West Lake Road         Town of Skaneateles       $240,000

4207 School Street               Town of Owasco            $202,900

26 Griffin Street                    Village of Skaneateles      $352,000

4236 Jordan Road                Town of Skaneateles        $175,000

2162 West Lake Road         Town of Skaneateles         $539,000

1934 Amnaste Lane             Town of Skaneateles         $248,000

2483 East Lake Road          Town of Spafford              $569,000

1710 Pork Street                 Town of Skaneateles         $75,000

819 Franklin Street               Town of Skaneateles         $125,000

250 Firelane 16                    Town of Niles                   $255,000

30 Academy Street              Village of Skaneateles       $250,000

Skaneateles Real Estate - The Fast Finish Update

So I spent the last 6 weeks trying to recoup summertime at the lake and with the kids, but finding that while business seemed to slow a lot from the fast pace of earlier, it wasn't all that slow due to closings and other wonderful occasions.  Some things didn't come together - disappointments all around and work was required on endings.  But that happens.  I have to admit that two of the issues that did get resolved were mind-boggling....properties exchanged hands but the legal work was never done?  It was missed a couple times? And of course this happens after everything else has occurred...inspections, mortgages, surveys...moving trucks standing by.  Thank goodness for attorneys who will not let anything slide and in one case at least worked tirelessly to bring the deal to a satisfactory conclusion.

It's not all buying and selling - there is so much more!

So to update what happened in Skaneateles....there are currently 111 single family homes listed as active in the Skaneateles area as reported in the multiple listing service.  Of these, 28 are in the Village and 21 are waterfront.  After July 30th 32 new listings came on the market, 8 of them in the Village with 5 being brand new, not re-lists.  There was only one new lake listing though.  Five of the new listings are under contract, 2 from the Village, both listed under $200,000.

Seventeen houses are under contract right now.  Five are in the Village, and either over 300K or under 200K.  I believe the majority of Village homes listed are somewhere in the middle!  Three waterfront properties are waiting to close.

The very good news is that we now have 62 closed sales this year, an increase of 22 just in the past 6 weeks!  Five were from the Village and 5 were waterfront.  As I said - selling late in the spring brings these closings in the late summer.

Sixty-two closings means I will write up the Third Twenty in a bit.  Comparing this to last year we are still behind, as we are with 2012.  Certainly we are above the two previous years which were awful!
Year-to-date closings:    2014      62
                                      2013     78
                                      2012     85
                                      2011     51
                                      2010     47

But it's almost fall, and I have seen open houses better attended and showings increasing.  Now is the time to get out there and look and buy!

The Second Twenty

Closings are always good...and these are from June and July actually.  I know there have been quite a few more since, so I thought I better get these recorded.  In no particular order:

1383 Foxfield Drive - Town of Skaneateles - $274,000

51 Calemad Drive - Town of Sennett - $404,000

1265 Oak Bluff - Town of Skaneateles - $980,000

83 Fennell Street - Village of Skaneateles - $305,000

44 West Lake Street - Village of Skaneateles - $989,000

81 West Genesee Street - Village of Skaneateles - $280,000

3330 County Line Road - Town of Skaneateles - $415,000

2364 East Lake Road - Town of Spafford - $255,000

2397 Wave Way - Town of Skaneateles - $275,000

4142 Jordan Road - Town of Skaneateles - $173,500

1264 Greenfield Lane - Town of Skaneateles - $495,000

2996 County Line Road - Town of Skaneateles - $526,000

5 Palmer Place - Village of Skaneateles - $309,000

1080 Jewett Road - Town of Skaneateles - $148,600

2680 Nunnery Road - Town of Spafford - $157,000

50 West Genesee Street - Village of Skaneateles - $385,000

3012 Rickard Road - Town of Spafford - $250,000

35 Academy Street - Village of Skaneateles - $875,000

3602 County Line Road - Town of Skaneateles - $515,000

48 East Elizabeth Street - Village of Skaneateles - $199,500

Wow!  Not to toot my own horn (too much at least) I was involved as either the list agent or the buyer
agent in four of these transactions!