Real estate deals keep deed workers busy

The registrar of deeds for Oconee, Anna Davison, says her office and staff were kept busy by an upswing of real estate deals during September.  No specific numbers were made available today to 101.7/WGOG NEWS, but one of the players in the Oconee county housing market, Lorraine Harding, says, “I’ve definitely seen an increase in sales and foot traffic, people looking at houses.  I think the timing of the year speaks for itself, in and around school starting back.”  But most of all, Harding says, low interest rates motivate those who think about buying into buying.  Most of the transactions recorded by the county’s Register of Deeds office are believed to be re-sale of existing homes, with still little new home built.