Fickling & Company Realtors

When you get ready to sell your property, there are a number of things to consider before listing.  Who will market the property, how much to sell for, how and where to market the property, just to consider a few.  Selling a property is a time consuming and tedious project therefore, consider the following questions before…

Change is coming, but the Hospitality Lodging Industry’s immediate future still looks bright. Lodging Outlook for 2008 Stressing that they foresee no recession in the immediate future, analysts at PFK Hospitality Research have taken a swing at what such a trough would look like, should the views of the industry pessimists prove correct. At first…

As the first quarter of 2007 comes to an end, we see the volume of leases and sales increased over the first quarter of 2006.   Due to a sharp increase in supply, the vacancy rate has risen since the first of the year in the small office and retail market.   Several new strip centers and…

In 2008, the average occupancy for Central Georgia was 89.5%, a 1% improvement over the prior year’s results.  The markets experiencing the greatest increase in 2008 over 2007 were East Macon at 5%, Milledgeville at 5.5% and Warner Robins at 2%. The markets experiencing the greatest year-over-year downturn were Downtown Macon at 3% and North…

The first quarter of 2007 has been a busy one in the Commercial Development Department. At Lullwater at Saluda Pointe, our apartment development in the Columbia, South Carolina suburb of Lexington, we have opened the beautiful leasing office for business and the lease up process has begun in earnest. We expect our first residents to move…