The headline on AL.com reads “Lake Martin Sales Have Slipped 2 Percent.” Should we be worried?

We shouldn’t be panicking quite yet. This number came from the Alabama Center for Real Estate. They do a great job at accumulating and reporting real estate market reports for the entire state of Alabama. That particular study was looking at the entire area of Lake Martin which includes off water property. If you dig into the details in their report, you’ll see that the Lake Martin waterfront home sales are actually pretty much the same as April 2014.

In April 2014, 25 waterfront homes were sold on the Lake Martin MLS*, this includes all brokerages, all real estate agents. This year, in April 2015, we also sold 25 waterfront homes, so we are dead even with last year from a monthly standpoint.

If we look at the cumulative sales from the whole year in 2015, in the Lake Martin MLS*, we sold 87 waterfront homes. Throughout 2014 in the Lake Martin MLS, we sold 72 waterfront homes, and 2014 was a record year. So far, we are tracking ahead of last year in sales by over 20%.

Now, if the Lake Martin waterfront market starts seeing months lose to the prior year and we see that cumulative total go down and we start tracking behind last year, then there might be reason to worry. But so far, we are doing great this year!

If you have any questions, please contact John Coley with Lake Martin Voice Realty at 334 221 5862 or emailing directly at john (at) lakemartinvoice (dot) com.

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(*)Disclaimers: All of the above info was taken from the Lake Martin Area Association of Realtors Multiple Listing Service. Accuracy is not guaranteed but deemed reliable. The above does not include sales by   FSBOs or developers that sell privately and not through the MLS. But, I do think that the above represents a very large majority of all waterfront sales on Lake Martin, Alabama.