The Wardlaw Team Southern Indiana Real Estate Blog

Happy 2012!  This year the Wardlaw Real Estate Team is doing something fun in our effort to spotlight Southern Indiana.  Each week we are going to post a local trivia question on our blog (www.lifeinsouthernindiana.com), on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.  When you figure out the answer, you’ll head over to www.wardlawrealestateteam.com/contact/  complete the First Name, & Last Name fields, and in the Questions/Where Are You Looking portion, type your answer and then click on Send.  Easy, right?

Each month, we will draw a randomly selected winner, and present the winner with a local business gift card!  Yippee!!!

So on to the first question of the week (drumroll, please):

What Georgetown native and New Albany High School graduate (& founder of the school’s first debate club) was once arrested for disregarding a town ordinance forbidding bicyclists to ride on the sidewalk, taken before a justice of the peace and fined $3, and was briefly expelled from NAHS after committing a prank, eventually straightened out his life of “disruptive behavior”, graduated at the top of his class, and served on the Supreme Court of the United States?

That’s it, folks – answer away (only one entry per person, please) – we’ll post the answer next week and post another question.  We’ll announce the winner on the first of every month for the previous month.  (So, look for your email from us announcing that you’re our winner on Feb. 1!)

The year 2012 may be the turning point for real estate sales nationally and in Southern Indiana.  Some areas of the country have already seen a small increase in sale prices indicating the bottom has finally been reached.  
Barbara Corcoran, the NBC Today Show's real estate contributor said that because homes and sellers are both very reasonable and interest rates are at an all time low, people should 'buy now' because that may all change by the end of the year.
Locally, the number of new listings is equal to or slightly greater than the number of listings that are going pending each week.  Also, new listngs that are well priced and in good condition are starting to sell well less than the average of 117 days on market.
We are predicting that 2012 will be the year for  real estate sales to increase and prices to stop dropping in Southern Indiana.
Call us if you'd like to be a part of this great real estate year!