Central Ohio Real Estate Market News

If your home is for sale, you know how important showings can be to actually selling the home. Usually the more people that view your home, the better opportunity you have to sell. It’s a numbers game.

Not getting showings? Then something is wrong. The photos? The price? The home? The area? Yes, there are fewer buyers than in past years, especially for higher priced homes, but showings are still occurring. Perhaps, you’re wondering how your showings stack up against others.

My broker, and numerous other brokers in the CBR MLS system, subscribe to Centralized Showing Service (CSS) to simplify other agents being able to set up showings. CSS just added a new feature that allows member agents to review the stats for other homes vs our listings. We can sort the data several different ways and it will be useful when evaluating a listing price or potential necessary price reduction.

I thought you might like to see the price ranges of showings that have occurred so far this year for four of the key areas in southern Delaware County: Powell, Lewis Center, Galena and Delaware city. The pie slices equal the percentage distribution of the showings for the given area.

Showings on homes in the Powell area which encompasses the southwest portion of Delaware County.

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Showings on homes in the Lewis Center area which encompasses the southeast portion of Delaware County.

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Showings on homes in the Galena area which encompasses the east portion of Delaware County.

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Showings on homes in Delaware city which encompasses the central portion of Delaware County.

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Showings on homes in all FOUR areas.

While the four above charts show the distribution of showings within each area, the total number of showings for each area differs quite a bit. The chart below shows the relationship of the number of showings for each area. Powell had nearly half (48%) of the showings.

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