Winter’s Impact on Real Estate
This is certainly turning out to be a challenging winter. It started off with almost no snow at all, but the last couple of weeks – wow, we’re breaking records!
Here are some great photos from Cape Cod Wave during the Juno blizzard.
Interestingly (or at least to me), the inventory of homes for sale in Falmouth is down by about 25% from where it’s been for the last several YEARS. I’m seeing homes that have been on the market for several months go under agreement. I’m guessing that buyers who saw homes in the fall and early winter are using snow-related time at home to negotiate on homes that they’d already seen.
A lot of new homes are not coming on the market, and this probably is weather-related. If the tension between significantly fewer homes available for sale and sparse new inventory continues, there’s only one result: prices go up. Time will tell. For right now, it’s still a good time for buyers.
Falmouth Colors: At The Queen’s Buyway, 8:30 am, 2/10/15
What the photo doesn’t show is the dump truck behind the plow, hauling away load after load.
Quissett Crowing
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I have two friends who are crow aficionados. One is my friend John Brady, a writer whose book on Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner will be published this year. Look for it – it reveals much that’s not well-known about the romance they shared.
I thought that Jack knew everything about crows until I discovered that my friend Marcy actually “talks” to crows – in their language! She’s a long-time avid birder, and has this amazing talent of calling the crows, and then cawing back and forth with them. It’s incredible! Now when I see crows, I see them a little differently. At Quissett Harbor last week, the only sound was of the crows.[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
Old Silver Beach, 2/5/15
Last week Beth Colt of the Woods Hole Inn, Quicks Hole Tavern, and Falmouth Academy showed me her daily FB postings of images from around Woods Hole. She calls it “Woods Hole Colors”, a compliment to “Vineyard Colors”, a daily posting of images from the Vineyard that was started by a couple of house cleaners who wanted to share what they saw as they drove around their beautiful island. The New York Times picked up the story, and the rest as they say is history.
Hopping right onto the bandwagon, or color wheel as the case may be, I liked the idea of doing the same thing in Falmouth, and calling it “Falmouth Colors”. I started posting this week. The images may be seen on my Facebook page.
But today was just gray and dreary, and I couldn’t find a thing worth sharing. I questioned whether this idea was sustainable, and I still don’t know how it will play out. To do it every day is a big commitment, and some days are well, just not pretty. Or maybe it’s my life that isn’t pretty every day.
But at the very end of the day today, the last few moments, I could see that the western sky was light. It was actually yellow. I hit the road, and got to Old Silver Beach in time. This is what I saw. (But I nearly froze in the three seconds it took to capture the scene – the wind was brutal.) Can you see the cold?
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