Selling Your Home?
If you plan on selling your home, click
WEBMASTER to send an e-mail to us with the selling information. We will post a link to the web page showing your property if it is available on the internet.
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If you know the MLS number of a house in this neighborhood, you can locate the listing on the www.homemarket.knoxnews.com site. Click on this link, then enter the MLS number into the field and press [ENTER].
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New Neighbors
2006
512 Hickory Woods Road: Jeffrey and Melissa Jewell to Don and Cathy Sloan, $229,900. Reported in the News Sentinel on Sunday, May 14, 2006.
629 Hickory Woods Road: Greg & Cherie McCauley to Mike and Gail Burris, $224,500. January 31, 2006.
2005
516 Smith Road: Brian & Laura Ullrich to Kenneth & Donna Carter, $190,500. Reported in the News Sentinel on Sunday, December 18, 2005.
520 Hickory Woods Road: Ralph & Ann Staup to David Schum and Gary Henderson, $259,900. Reported in the News Sentinel on Sunday, November 27, 2005.
12101 Valley Brook Drive: Steffen Sommer and Marlene Sommer to Robert & Vaneessa Standaert, $220,000. Reported in the News Sentinel on Sunday, October 30, 2005.
504 Mt. Breeze Lane: Bill & Peggy Rowan to Sam & Julia Taylor & Abby & Allison, $180,000. Reported in the News Sentinel on Sunday, October 30, 2005.
12100 Valley Trail: Mark Laramie (The Edelbluts rented from Laramie) to Steve & Laura Lonergan in Hickory Woods Subdivision, $237,930. September 29, 2005.
613 Laurel Valley Road: Ralph Green to Rondal & Rebecca Sullins in Hickory Woods Subdivision, $245,000. Reported in the News Sentinel on Sunday, August 21, 2005.
512 Hickory Woods Road: Tim & Debby Ramsey to Jeffery & Melissa Jewell, $206,000. June 30, 2005.
12114 Valley Trail: Dan & Janet Gibson to William David & Karen Bowers in Hickory Woods Subdivision, $254,000. April 29, 2005.
12100 Valley Brook Drive: Thomas & Charlotte Klasson to Robert Taylor and Eva Taylor in Hickory Woods, $175,000. Reported in the News Sentinel on Sunday, Feburary 6, 2005.
A big welcome to all of the above from your neighbors...
Homes for Sale
No current information. Anyone?
The Hickory Woods Homeowners Association has no financial interest in any home sale or purchase listed on this web site.
Please note that this is a non-commercial site and is supported by KORRnet,
a non-profit organization. Therefore, we cannot ADVERTISE your property
here, but we can say which house is for sale and provide links to
the listing on the Realtor's web site.
The following table is a listing of some of the homes sold in Hickory
Woods over the past 10 or so years. Not all sales are in this listing.
Some have not caught our eye as we scan the
list of sales in the Sunday newspaper every week. At any rate, this
gives an idea of the price range of the homes in our neighborhood and
the number that are sold (or not sold) every year.
SUMMARY OF HOME SALES IN HICKORY WOODS
| Year |
Number Sold* |
Low |
High |
| 1989 |
4 |
$121,000 |
$144,000 |
| 1990 |
12 |
$102,000 |
$147,000 |
| 1991 |
1 |
$115,800 |
$115,800 |
| 1992 |
2 |
$141,000 |
$183,000 |
| 1993 |
2 |
$161,500 |
$162,000 |
| 1994 |
1 |
$148,000 |
$148,000 |
| 1995 |
6 |
$133,000 |
$181,400 |
| 1996 |
2 |
$165,500 |
$168,500 |
| 1997 |
6 |
$145,000 |
$209,900 |
| 1998 |
7 |
$145,000 |
$186,000 |
| 1999 |
17 |
$140,000 |
$235,500 |
| 2000 |
5 |
$185,000 |
$216,000 |
| 2001 |
10 |
$149,900 |
$217,500 |
| 2002 |
7 |
$110,000 |
$216,000 |
| 2003 |
14 |
$138,000 |
$299,000 |
| 2004 |
9 |
$125,000 |
$215,000 |
| 2005 |
9 |
$175,000 |
$259,900 |
The median price for all homes sold in 2005 was $220,000 and the average for the year was $218,703.
The median price for all homes sold in 2004 was $207,900 and the average for the year was $196,433.
The median price for all homes sold in 2003 was $189,350 and the average for the year was $196,377.
* We may have missed some homes sold in any given year. Sorry if we missed yours.
Looking for a mortgage? Here are some .com e-mortgage sites as reported in the Wall Street Journal on June 2, 2000...
| Home Loan e-Loan Shopping Services |
| LoansDirect.com |
WSJ says they had the lowest rates and fully disclosed closing costs, but costs were somewhat high. |
| Countrywide.com |
Rates were attractive, closing costs not shown. |
| E-Loan.com |
Four choices shown. Excellent breakdown of closing costs. Site included Smart-Tips. |
| LoanWorks.com |
Price search tool. Closing costs estimated to the penny. Bounty offered if you can beat the deal. |
| Mortgages.com |
Not the best rates, they say because there are different ways to calculate APR. Closing costs seemed low. |
Some Local Real Estate Sites
Property Information and Property Tax Information
Information from the GIS (Graphic Information System) operated by KUB and Knox County is available at the Knoxville GIS site. To find information on a property, enter the address and the street name without the street type. For example use Valley, not Valley Trail or Creekwood, not Creekwood Terrace. To access the Knox County Assessors Office information about any property, click on this link to http://www.knoxcounty.org/trustee/tax_search/tax_searchsite.php to the search engine for tax information for all property in the county. Searchs may be made by address or by the owner's name.
Recent sales information can be obtained by registering at www.tnrealestate.com. This free site will provide address, owner's name, sale date and the sale price for no fee. That much information is FREE. You can buy additional information if you need it. We use this site to update our sales info if we miss it in the Sunday papers. Sometimes it is wrong (or we are!) You must register to use this site but the base information is free. To see all the current sales for the year, log in, then enter "HICKORY WOODS" into the subdivision category, then in the date sold field enter ">=12/31/04" for example to get all the 2005 or later sales. Clicking on the address in the listing will then give more details about the sale.
Hickory Woods Home Sales Forum
Houses for Sale
What do you think? Should we use the home page to list the current houses for sale in the neighborhood? If we did, how
should we go about it? Should we just provide line item listings of addresses and maybe prices or should we let the realtors
post the listing with all the goodies about the property on the page. This could be a lot of work. Should we be compensated?
If so, how much is it worth. Would anybody look at the page. What happens when the property is sold? Do we post the sold
notice and the sale price? That could be interesting all by itself. How about posting a thin list with links to the web of the
selling realtor? If the realtor has a page, I'm sure he would agree. If he doesn't then maybe he uses a listing web server to
show the property on the web. That is harder to link to.
Here is the benefit to the neighborhood: The people in HWHA would have a way to display their homes when they are for
sale. Buyers looking for this neighborhood (they do because I did) could find the recently for sale homes and the current
price range. They can also get this from their agent, but now they can see the web page and the other things going on, even
the problems listed in the Forum. Fees could supplement the dues for support of the HWHA activities.
Is there a down-side? Does anyone NOT want everyone to know that their house is for sale? Isn't there a sign in the front
yard? It's advertised in the paper with a listing price. Send your thoughts to hckrywds@chartertn.net. We will post them here.
HOUSES FOR SALE: Sure, I think I would be very helpful to
other neighbors who may be thinking of selling.
It would also be helpful for potential buyers to see what
range home pricing is in our neighborhood.
As you mentioned, it is public information.
Not only is it available from county records, it is published
in the Knoxville News Sentinel, every Sunday, for the world to read!
Regards,
Mike Fleenor
Right, Mike. My wife has kept a record of most of the house sales
for this neighborhood taken from the paper every weekend since we moved here in 1991.
It is interesting reading as we watch the property appreciate.
John A.
Here is another:
John,
Something for the forum...... I think that it would be great if we had a current list of houses that are for sale inside our association.
We somehow could keep you informed? Might be too much of a hassle. It's just that when one is for sale, it would be a good way to communicate this to our friends, family, and neighbors. Well maybe not family, haha.
Rex Baldwin, 8/13/99
Charging for use of space on the web page for realtors to list homes.
If a realtor wants to place an ad in the web page for a neighborhood property, what restrictions, if any should there be?
Should we charge a fee? If we do, how much should it be? Give us your opinion at hckrywds@chartertn.net and we will post it
here.
Would Korrnet permit such "commercial" use for the non-profit page?
Korrnet.org is the server for our web page. It is a non-commercial server for the community. If we have ads, what would
they have to say about using their server? I will try to find out. If you have any opinions, let me know at hckrywds@chartertn.net
and we will post them here.
I asked and found out: Korrnet is a non-profit, non-commercial operation. So long as we stay non-profit, non-commercial, we are free to put anything on the
server that we want. But we cannot post commercial or profit making
advertisement here. However, there is no restriction on linking to
a Realtor's advertisement for a home in Hickory Woods, or, for that matter,
advertising garage sale items here. As long as we stay non-whatever,
we can post things like a piano for sale or a garage sale notice. Webmaster.
This is the latest correspondence with Korrnet about using the site
to list homes for sale.
Subj: *Announcing New KORRnet Sites - HWHA*
Date: 9/23/1999 3:11:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: contact@korrnet.org (Carol)
To: HckryWds@chartertn.net
Hi John,
It was good to meet you too. Congratulations on your new web site. It
looks great! I have established a link for your site under the Community
Groups section, F - I, and have also added a pointer from our "What's New"
link on the KORRnet homepage.
I will submit your questions to the KORRnet Policy Community. I hope to
have a response for you within a few days.
Talk to you soon,
Carol Pierce
KORRnet
>9/21/99
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>Carol, it was nice to meet all of you good Korrnet people on Saturday. I
really enjoyed the morning. Got a lot out of it.
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>The Hickory Woods web site at www.korrnet.org/hwha is up and running and
ready to be placed on the list of community pages. Thank you for using the
site as an example of neighborhood web pages. We are all tickled here to be recognized.
>
>I asked you about listing homes for sale on the web page. You thought you should bring that up to the board as an item for decision because it would be a commercial activity on the nonprofit site. There are several ways we can do this as I see it.
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>1. Post a for sale sign on the web page listing the features of the house and the asking price and a phone number to call. May include pictures. The whole thing. We may charge for this.
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>2. Post a for-sale sign on the page with features, but no price. List a
phone number to call and put a pointer link to a Realtor's web page with
pricing. We may charge for this. A small fee to the Homeowners Association.
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>3. Post a for-sale sign on the page with features, no price, no pointer,
with a phone number. No picture, no fee.
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>4. Post a listing of houses currently for sale with information and addresses, no phone. Price range of recent sales in the neighborhood to give people an idea.
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>5. Pictures of houses for sale, etc., no prices. All other information, fee perhaps.
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>At most there are 4-5 houses for sale at one time. None are for sale now.
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>We would like to know how much leeway we have in publicizing our neighborhood through the Internet. This would not be a Commercial venture nor would it be for profit. If we charge a fee, that would be a small amount and would be used to support the operations of the HWHA. (Our budget is about $1500 per year.)
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>The other issue is related to houses for sale. Can we use the web to
advertise articles for sale? Similar to above, noncommercial.
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>Thanks for your support. I have more questions for later.
>
>John Andrews
>Hickory Woods Homeowners Association Webmaster
>966-4969 (h) 376-8241 (w)
House sales prices from the public documents, recent sales.
Whenever a house changes hands, the record of the sale price is made public in the tax records. This information is publicly available. Should it be obtained and updated regularly for the houses in our neighborhood? This list would be updated everytime a house was sold with the date and the current price and the names of the seller and buyer. This information is
perhaps private information to many. What do you think? Send your thoughts to hckrywds@chartertn.net and we will post them here.
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