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January 24, 2009

Here's what you said

Chances are you're a Baltimore homeowner who's not planning on selling anytime soon. That's the upshot of the "Tell Me About Yourself" poll results.

Well, OK, not quite. The results -- as of 1 p.m. today -- show that more than a third of you who took the poll live in the city and about 40 percent of you own a home you're not intending to sell in the near future. But naturally there's no way to know how much the city resident group and the not-selling-my-home group overlap.

Thirty-five percent of you are renters interested in buying soonish; 11 percent are homeowners trying to sell now or in the near future. The rest of you are either renters not planning on buying anytime soon or residents with a different situation altogether. (One reader wants to buy property without selling his or her current home.)

Just under half of you live in the Baltimore 'burbs, the largest group (23 percent) in Baltimore County. The rest of you -- 17 percent -- live outside the metro area.

Thanks for playing, folks! You're a pretty diverse group, and I'll try to find things that will interest people who aren't going anywhere as well as the buyers and sellers.

Posted by Jamie Smith Hopkins at 1:24 PM | | Comments (0)
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Jamie Smith Hopkins, a Baltimore Sun reporter since 1999, writes about the regional economy. Her reporting on the housing market has won national and local awards. Hopkins is a Columbia native and has lived in Maryland all her life, save for 10 months spent covering schools in Ames, Iowa.
She trained to become a wonk by spending large chunks of time as a geek and an insufferable know-it-all.
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