We are developing stand alone neighborhood web sites for several areas around Fort Worth and wanted to let people know about them.  Thus far, The Christian Group has two sites that are completed and online.  These are Lake Country Estates and The Ranch at Eagle Mountain.  More of these sites are coming.  I think they will provide more insight into a neigborhood's unique attributes and help people determine whether one is best suited to their needs and lifestyle.  This is particularly useful for people who know little or nothing about an area they are considering moving into.

If anyone has any suggestions about how to improve these sites, I would very much appreciate an email.

Regards,

Bernie Christian

For those of you who are local to the Fort Worth area, The Christian Group is promoting its Free Home Buyer Tax Credit Workshop to be held on Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 6:00 - 7:30pm at Saint Anne's Church, located at 6055 Azle Ave. Fort Worth, Texas 76135.  All are welcome for this event although seating is limited so call ahead! This workshop will be valuable to almost anyone that is thinking about buying a home. First, we'll be there to answer your real estate questions; secondly, we'll have a tax expert and mortgage professionals that will be there to help you through the process of buying a home.  Once you have the basic facts, then you'll need to make a decision whether to move forward with a home purchase and realize a big tax credit.  And finally, we can provide you a list of properties on the spot that meet your unique individual criteria and get you looking at homes even as soon as the next day (we have agents ready to assist you).  Since the tax credit ends by the end of April 2010, it is important to have a home under contract for purchase on or before that date.  So...time is running out if you plan on taking advantage of the tax credit.  Please RSVP via email or call us at 817-269-1660

After looking up the December home sales statistics for Eagle Ranch Estates Fort Worth, I can see that this neighborhood is doing about average for home inventories in Fort Worth and surrounding areas!  As you can see in the chart below, the neighborhood has a bit of a mixed market.  Considering the availability of the First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit last year, and extended into this year, I am surprised to see that the $100K to $150K price band is not fairing better here as other similar neighborhood in this price band were seeing some modest reductions in inventory levels.  However, the ripple effect caused by first time home buyers and produced by those sellers that in turn are trading up, does seem to have positively impacted the next two higher price bands.  Here you can see these price bands are situated in the a "balance market".  Overall, this is good news for the Eagle Ranch neighborhood as well as other Fort Worth neighborhoods in the surrounding area. It's uncertain whether this improvement will sustain itself in the following months.  However, with the $6500-$8000 Home Buyer Tax Credit available to First Time Home Buyers and existing homeowners, it is my opinion that demand will continue to positively impact supply gradually decreasing inventory levels during the next six months of 2010. 

Consult with us before you buy or sell!