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Knoxville Neighborhood of the Week: Echo Valley

© 2008 Robert Stockdale Photography, All Rights Reserved. This week Neighborhood of the Week stays in West Knoxville to revisit a charming, older neighborhood with some seriously steep hills: Echo Valley. © 2008 Robert Stockdale Photography, All Rights Reserved. Located just west of Gallaher View and just ...

The Weekly Poll: What do you think about lowball offers?

Do yourself a favor and get over there and click on the The Weekly Poll. You'll be glad you did. This week's topic is one I wrote about 2 years ago and one that I've once again spent all weekend dealing with: lowball offers. It seems like every offer I get ...

Knoxville Foreclosure Watch: September 1, 2010

Welcome to the home stretch of the 3rd Quarter, Watchers! This week on Knoxville Foreclosure Watch, active foreclosure listings were down, while pending and closed listings were both up. And I'm doing my happy dance, because that means the numbers all moved in the right directions this week. Yes, it's ...

Knoxville Neighborhood of the Week: Farragut Crossing

[caption id="attachment_2488" align="alignnone" width="368" caption="© 2010 Robert Stockdale Photography, All Rights Reserved."][/caption] This week Neighborhood of the Week heads back out to Farragut to look at a mighty nice neighborhood with its very own swimming pool and tennis court: Farragut Crossing. [caption id="attachment_2489" align="alignnone" width="368" caption="© 2010 Robert Stockdale Photography, All ...

The Weekly Poll: How worried are you about the Knoxville real estate market?

photo credit: Silly Little Man The weekly poll is kind of concerned about last week's housing news. Go vote and try to calm it down. This week's poll topic has to do with all the (not so great) news that came out last week about national and local home sales in ...

Knoxville Foreclosure Watch: August 25, 2010

Hey there, Watchers -- so glad you made it back! This week on Knoxville Foreclosure Watch, active and pending foreclosure listings were slightly down, while closed listings were slightly up. And that's alright by me, 'cause judging by these numbers we need all the closings we can get. This year's dark ...

July 2010 Knoxville Home Sales Report

It's gettin' on toward the end of the month and you know what that means -- it's Home Sales Report time. And the Knoxville area July numbers are here, even if I'm not that crazy about them. Thanks to the Home Buyer Tax Credits that were in effect late last year ...

Knoxville Neighborhood of the Week: Lincoln Park

© 2009 Robert Stockdale Photography, All Rights Reserved. This week Neighborhood of the Week heads up to the north side of town, a little ways up from downtown, but not quite all the way to Fountain City, to revisit a small historic community known as Lincoln Park. ...

The Weekly Poll: What are your monthly housing expenses?

The weekly poll is over there paying its mortgage. You didn't think I let it live here for free did you? This week's poll topic is one I've asked about before, but which is maybe even more relevant now than ever: housing expenses and what they're costing you each month. Whether ...

Knoxville Foreclosure Watch: August 18, 2010

How is it already time to go back to school, Watchers? In this week's installment of Knoxville Foreclosure Watch, active listings were finally down from their two week high, pendings were finally up right at 100 and closings were... well... down. But hey, two out of three ain't bad these ...