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Today's Greenville News front page article outlined the growth in housing in the Greenville South Carolina area since 2000.  Of the 178,686 total Greenville County homes in 2005, 15,883 or 10% had been built since 2000.  During that same period the population of Greenville County jumped 7%. 

In 2006, the Greenville County planning commission considered more than 6,000 new residential lots.  Over half of these were in the Greer and Simpsonville areas.  In the Greenville MLS there are currently over 1300 new never lived in homes available with the average price being $305,078.

To search all the Greenville South Carolina Real Estate market, please visit my web site.

You use the Internet for all your daily tasks.  Can it really be a valuable tool in conducting the search for your new home?  According to a study done by the National Association of Realtors, over 80% of today's home buyers will use the Internet during their home search.  The technology advancements allows Realtor's to provide instant information on listings, as well as detailed information for relocation clients to educate them about their destination location.

Home buyers that utilize the Internet are better informed and reduce the amount of time it takes to find their new home and also reduce the number of homes seen before making a decision.  Relocation clients are my business and I make information available about Greenville, Simpsonville, Mauldin,…

My real estate business is made up mostly of relocation clients that are moving to our area and to a market they have little or no knowledge about.  Many times they want specific information about our housing market so they will be better informed while making their home buying decision.

Now that we have two and a half months of data for 2007, I thought I would share with you the type of data that will get you up to speed on the Greenville South Carolina Real Estate Market.  Looking at January 1 through March 13 and comparing 2006 to 2007:

  2006 2007 Listings Sold 1415 1358 Average Sales Price …