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Currently there are 941 homes for sale, 2 condos and apartments for sale, 176 vacant land for sale and 9 townhomes for sale
About Covington, Georgia:
Covington is a small city in Newton County, Georgia, just 35 miles east of Atlanta. It has a population of just under 15,000 and a geographical area spanning 14 mi.². Covington has a reputation as a warm and friendly community that is also a hotspot for film and television production in the Southeast. Covington has earned the moniker of Hollywood of the south as the home of production such as Vampire Diaries and The Walking Dead.
Covington has a very temperate climate with temperatures averaging in the low 70s during the cooler months and into the mid 90s during the hotter, humid months.
The heart of the community in Covington is its historic and beautiful downtown core which combines the very best of old and new. Upon first seeing the picturesque downtown cityscape, many are immediately struck by the stunning Victorian architecture that defines region. Mixed in with beautiful old buildings are very modern and elegant options for dining, shopping, and general entertainment. A strong sense of community is one of the biggest drawing points for the downtown core in Covington. According to the city’s website, “it is a downtown where the store owners are your neighbors and they treat you like one.”
The strong sense of community spills over into the area of recreation and fitness. Covington is known throughout the region as having exceptional cycling with “its broad, tree-lined avenues and abundance of quiet, scenic roadways through pastoral farmland.” To take advantage of the excellent cycling routes that exist in the city, residents can join the Covington Community Bike Ride which is a monthly group bicycle ride that takes place on a Sunday afternoon. The first ride starts in the downtown square and goes for a four and a half mile roll through historic downtown Covington. Those who want an even more challenging ride can follow that with a cycling trek through the scenic Eastside Trail.
For those who enjoy being out on the water, Newton County has several options from which to choose. Nearby there are three rivers and three lakes which are perfect for swimmers, paddle borders, kayakers, and fishermen.
Nature lovers will feel right at home in Covington as there are two different wildlife preserves on hand. The Charles Elliott Wildlife Centre is a public fishing and wildlife management area while the Georgia Wildlife Federation is headquartered in Newton County and offers many outdoor activities including nature trails and birdwatching.
Covington has an impressive arts and culture scene through Main Street Covington as well as the Southern Heartland Art Gallery. Together these two venues provide stunning visual art exhibits, ballet performances, concerts, a concert series in the park, as well as camps to promote arts education and awareness for youth.
Schools in Covington are administered by the Newton County School District. The district consists of 14 elementary schools, five middle schools, three high schools, and a charter school. Some of the highest rated schools in Covington are Newton County Theme School at Ficquett, Eastside High School, Porterdale Elementary School, and Heard-Mixon Elementary School
Covington prides itself on its strong civic spirit and friendly atmosphere. There is plenty in outdoor recreational facilities and safe, liveable neighborhoods. And Covington seems very adamant about balancing its connection to the past with its need to grow with the times. This is perhaps best evidence in its town motto, Covington, Georgia – you’ll find it at the corner of yesterday and tomorrow.
If you are a property owner planning to sell your own house, your day just got better. Working with ByOwner.com will expose your home to as many prospective buyers as would a Realtor. The difference is that you escape the high cost of going through a broker.
Sure, a broker can market your house to wide range of aspiring home owners...yet so does ByOwner. While the real estate office will claim six percent of your sale price for the trouble, our Covington, Georgia Flat Fee listing takes only a small portion of that amount, leaving more for the seller.
ByOwner arranges for your For Sale By Owner house to appear on all local MLS and that is just for starters. Your property is not only found through the dominant search engines, it is present on the most famous real estate portals like Trulia, Zillow, Realtor.com, MSN, AOL, Bing, Yahoo, and Google. Moreover, after your FSBO property is entered with the MLS, it will join Realtor-listed homes on the high-profile broker sites, like ReMax, C-21, Coldwell Banker, ERA, Redfin, Movoto, Keller Williams. Online broker gateways like these often post all the MLS listings as a standard practice so your recent posting can very well appear there too.
Selling through ByOwner affords the owners savings on the conveyance transaction. As a matter of fact, sellers who affiliate with us have saved an average of $15,000. Since we outfit For Sale By Owners all the materials and publicity they need to sell in Covington, many of those expenditures remain in our seller's bank accounts.
Do you want to close on a house -- conveying or purchasing -- in Covington? Our available properties are bought and sold regularly, with the last update occurring on 12/12/2024. We now have 1,128 homes on the market.
In Covington, we have 941 single family homes teed up for sale. Our Covington inventory includes 2 condos.
Roughly, the average purchase price for a single-family home in Covington as of last year was $391,080. The average going price for condos is currently $383,391. On a square footage basis, the average dollar amount per square foot is $246.
The most recent statistics reveal that there were 61 homes and properties sold by owners in Covington in the previous year. Owners sold 61 houses and 0 condos in the Covington.
The norm for sales prices of single family residences in Covington, based on the numbers we obtained, hovered at $391,080 last year. Buyers have paid an average of $218 per square foot of living area.
Last year, condos on the market in Covington cost purchasers prices in the vicinity of $383,391. This works out to $483 per square foot of living space.
Our website displays houses for sale in many Covington subdivisions. Among the most popular are the following: Westminster, Westfield Village, Wildwood, River Walk Farm, Savoy Park, Bailey Glynn, Trelawney, River Walk Farms, Oakwood Manor, Green Acres.
If you are thinking of selling your Covington home fast, try our flat fee listing service, Our list fees start at $499, and may save you $15,000 in real estate commissions. Click here to start saving.
Disclaimer: Listing broker has attempted to offer accurate data, but buyers/lessees are advised to confirm all information IDX information is provided exclusively for consumers' personal, non-commercial use that it may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties consumers may be interested in purchasing, and that data is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed accurate by the MLS. The MLS may, at its discretion, require use of other disclaimers as necessary to protect Participants and/or the MLS from liability.
This data up-to-date as of [12/12/2024]
