Don't forget to watch the State of the Union tonight at 9PM.

And let's take this opportunity to see how our local real estate market is doing as compared to where we were one year ago.

• 1,013 homes sold in the past 12 months. (One Year Ago: 865)
  
  
• The median home price is $176,000. (One Year Ago: $175,000)
   
  
• There are 529 homes on the market. (One Year Ago: 572)
  
  
• The median Days on Market is 120 days.  (One Year Ago: 143)
   
• There were 222 foreclosures in the past year.  (One Year Ago: 252)
  
  
• Our local unemployment rate is 4.7%.  (One Year Ago: 5.2%)
  

Stay tuned this evening for an update on the state of our nation, but our local housing market seems to be much improved over the past year.