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My home isn't selling: Now what do I do?

By Eric Gnau

Real Estate Associate

Cora Bett Thomas Realty

Hardly a day passes that you don't hear something about the sluggish condition of the U.S. housing market. People often tell me that homes just aren't selling. However, that is not entirely true, at least not here. Homes are selling.

Now it is true that there is a larger than usual inventory of homes on the market and that the average days-on-market (DOM) statistic has increased. But homes are selling, just at a slower pace than the breakneck speed of 2005 and a portion of 2006.

For the 12-month period ending Feb. 25, 2008, the Beaufort Multiple Listing Service reported that 862 homes were sold, at an average price of $311,000 totaling more than $268,000,000.But these statistics are little consolation to the homeowner who has had his home on the market for an extended period of time.

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