Lambertville, New Hope, Pa – Bucks County – Winter Festival 2010 – January 23 to January 31, 2010

Lambertville, New Hope, Pa  – Bucks County – Winter Festival 2010 – January 23 to January 31, 2010.

Winter Festival 2010 is upon us! This year it starts on January 23rd and goes through January 31, 2010.

There are many of your old favorites along with what will be come your new favorites this year.  The Chili cook-off, the Winter Festival Concert (XPN Welcomes Daniela Cotton), and the Parade, but look for some new and updated offerings such as the Taste of Winter Fest and the Photo Tour.

You will have the opportunity to visit over 30 free events as well as 5 ticketed events. For a complete listing of events and to learn more, click on Events on the Winter Festival site.  Tickets are currently on sale for all of the ticketed events – click on the Tickets link on the Winter Festival site to purchase.  Most events sell out in advance, so be sure to get your tickets early.

Proceeds from the Festival go to many local organizations in need.  You can also place donations,  in canisters at all events and along the parade route.  Non-perishable food items would be great, to help fill shelves of the organizations in need.

Please email me if you have any questions about the events.  Hope to see you there!

Real estate statistics in Yardley, Newtown, Upper Makefield Township, Lower Makefield Township & Bucks County

I have not done this in a number of posts, but I wanted to take a very detailed look at market statistics, through the end of November, in some of the markets that I serve. 
 In virtually all of the markets in which I work in Bucks County, the pace of 2009 year to date units has continued to improve.  For example, in all of Bucks County, the number of single family homes this November, was 79% higher than November of 2008. 

Some specific examples of that are pretty impressive.  Sales in Lower Makefield Township, were 257% this November than a year ago; Newtown was up 171%; Upper Makefield was up 100%; Solebury was up 200%; Buckingham up by 111%; Northampton up 61%; Middletown up 65%.  I don’t think that it was a coincidence, that the original, first time home buyer tax credit, expired on November 30th, and we saw such an increase in the number of transactions this November.  Clearly the tax credit had an effect. 
 
In virtually all of our markets, the year to date units closed, has improved over the past 6 or 7 months.  Please see the accompanying graphs, which plot the general improvement.

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