Every issue, every post.

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   Market Data · Smith Lake

   The 2025 Smith Lake Market, By the Numbers

   704 closed sides, about $474.9M in volume, and two firms holding three-quarters of it — the MLS company ranking, read line by line.
   Aug 11, 2026
   5 min
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   Realtor Index · Alabama

   The 10 Best Realtors on Smith Lake, Alabama

   A field-tested ranking of the agents who actually move waterfront on Lewis Smith Lake. Justin Dyar leads the list.
   Jan 15, 2026
   9 min
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   Field Note · Smith Lake

   What Makes Smith Lake Different

   Dock permits, water depth, sloughs, and three county lines — why the lake doesn't trade like ordinary residential.
   Jan 15, 2026
   4 min
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   Market Guide · Editorial

   How We Rank Smith Lake Agents

   The six-factor scorecard behind every ranking — transaction volume, days on market, tenure, and reference checks.
   Jan 15, 2026
   3 min

Everything the desk publishes lands here first. Each volume groups a quarter's worth of work — the ranking that anchors the issue, the field notes that support it, and the market guides that give buyers and sellers context beyond a simple top-10 list. Volumes are numbered in descending order, newest first, so the most current ranking is always at the top of the page.

Within a volume, entries are tagged by type — Realtor Index, Field Note, or Market Guide — so a reader chasing one specific thread (say, dock permitting on Smith Lake, or how we score agent tenure) can follow it across issues without re-reading the whole archive. Every entry links back to the live page it belongs to, so the archive stays a map of the work rather than a duplicate of it.

Volume V is in reporting now. It will carry the desk's next scheduled re-check of the Smith Lake Realtor Index, along with a fresh field note on how dock-permit backlogs across Cullman, Walker, and Winston counties are shaping list-to-sale timing this season. As with every issue, agents are re-scored against the same six-factor methodology described on the About page — nothing is re-ranked without a documented reason.

Readers who want to flag a correction, suggest an agent for review, or ask the desk a question ahead of the next issue can reach the editorial team directly — see the contact section on the About page.

Buyers, sellers, and agents themselves use this page differently. A buyer weighing two agents on the current Realtor Index can trace each profile back to the field notes and market guides that informed the score, rather than taking a ranking at face value. An agent who wants to understand where they stand — or how to move up in a future volume — can read the methodology note tied to their entry and see exactly which factors were weighed.

Journalists and other outlets citing the Index are welcome to link directly to individual entries here; each item on this page has a stable anchor so a specific ranking, field note, or market guide can be referenced without pointing to a moving target. If a linked page is ever updated materially, the corrections note on that page — and, where relevant, this archive entry — will reflect the change with a dated note, per the desk's corrections policy. This archive page itself is not ranked content — it is an index of ranked content — so it carries no sponsorships and no advertising placements of its own.