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Market Information Oops! Home Prices Didn’t Crash After All Monday June 5th, 2023 For Buyers, For Sellers, Pricing, Housing Market Updates During the fourth quarter of last year, many housing experts predicted home prices were going to crash this year. Here are a few of those forecasts: Jeremy Siegel, Russell E. Palmer Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School of Business: “I expect housing prices fall 10% to 15%, […]
Home Buyers The TRUE Value of Homeownership! Thursday June 1st, 2023 For Buyers, First Time Home Buyers Buying and owning your home can make a big difference in your life by bringing you joy and a sense of belonging. And with June being National Homeownership Month, it’s the perfect time to think about all the benefits homeownership provides. Of course, there are financial reasons to buy […]
Home Owners The Benefits of Selling Now! Thursday May 25th, 2023 For Sellers, Housing Market Updates If you’re trying to decide if now’s the time to sell your house, here’s what you should know. The limited number of homes available right now gives you a big advantage. That’s because there are more buyers out there than there are homes for sale. And, with so few homes on the market, buyers […]
Home Buyers Why Buyer Need An Expert Agent By Their Side Monday May 22nd, 2023 For Buyers, First Time Home Buyers, Move-Up Buyers The process of buying a home can feel a bit intimidating, even under normal circumstances. But today’s market is still anything but normal. There continues to be a very limited number of homes for sale, and that’s creating bidding wars and driving home prices back up as buyers compete over the […]
Home Buyers The Impact of Changing Mortgage Rates
Home Buyers Powerful Job Market Fuels Homebuyer Demand! Powerful Job Market Fuels Homebuyer Demand Thursday May 18th, 2023 For Sellers, Housing Market Updates The spring housing market has been surprisingly active this year. Even with affordability challenges and a limited number of homes for sale, buyer demand is strong, and getting stronger. One way we know there are interested buyers right now is because showing traffic is up. Data from the […]
Home Owners What you need to know about HOME Price News What You Need To Know About Home Price News Wednesday May 17th, 2023 For Buyers, For Sellers, Pricing, Housing Market Updates The National Association of Realtors (NAR) will release its latest Existing Home Sales Report tomorrow. The information it contains on home prices may cause some confusion and could even generate some troubling headlines. This all stems from the fact that NAR will report the median […]
Home Owners The Best Time to Sell Your House! The Best Time To Sell Your House Is When Others Aren’t Selling Thursday May 11th, 2023 For Sellers, Housing Market Updates, Selling Myths If you’re thinking about selling your house, you should know the number of homes for sale right now is low. That’s because, this season, there are fewer sellers listing their houses for sale than the norm. Looking back […]
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Home Owners Want to sell your house this spring? Price it RIGHT! Want To Sell Your House This Spring? Price It Right. Thursday April 13th, 2023 For Sellers, Housing Market Updates, Selling Myths Over the last year, the housing market’s gone through significant change. While it’s still a sellers’ market, homes that are priced right are selling, and they get the most attention from buyers right now. If you’re thinking of selling […]
Home Owners The Big Advantage If You Sell This Spring! Tuesday April 11th, 2023 For Sellers, Housing Market Updates Thinking about selling your house? If you’ve been waiting for the right time, it could be now while the supply of homes for sale is so low. HousingWire shares: “. . . the big question is whether we are finally starting to see the seasonal spring increase in inventory. The answer […]
Home Owners Two Reasons You Should Sell You House! April 4, 2023 For SellersHousing Market UpdatesSelling Myths Wondering if you should sell your house this year? As you make your decision, think about what’s motivating you to consider moving. A recent survey from realtor.com asked why homeowners are thinking about selling their houses this year. Here are the top two reasons (see graphic below): Let’s break those reasons […]
Home Buyers Why aren’t home prices CRASHING? Wednesday April 5th, 2023 For Buyers, For Sellers, Housing Market Updates There have been a lot of shifts in the housing market recently. Mortgage rates rose dramatically last year, impacting many people’s ability to buy a home. And after several years of rapid price appreciation, home prices finally peaked last summer. These changes led to a rise in […]
Home Buyers You may have more negotiating power when buying a home today! Wednesday December 14th, 2022 Buying Myths, First Time Home Buyers, For Buyers, Housing Market Updates, Move-Up Buyers Did the frequency and intensity of bidding wars over the past two years make you put your home search on hold? If so, you should know the hyper competitive market has cooled this year as buyer demand has moderated and housing supply has grown. Those two […]
Home Owners 3 Ways You Can Use Your Home Equity 3 Ways You Can Use Your Home Equity If you’re a homeowner, odds are your equity has grown significantly over the last few years as home prices skyrocketed and you made your monthly mortgage payments. Home equity builds over time and can help you achieve certain goals. According to the latest Equity Insights Report from CoreLogic, the average borrower with a home loan has […]
Market Information The importance of using a REAL ESTATE AGENT! Opendoor Agrees to $62M Settlement With FTC Over Alleged Deception Published: Aug. 1, 2022 at 2:52 p.m. ET By Kathryn Hardison Opendoor Technologies Inc. has agreed to pay a $62 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations that the company was cheating home sellers with misleading claims about its home-buying service. The FTC […]
Market Information The Benefits of Mixed-Use Developments The Benefits of Mixed-Use Developments What are mixed-use developments? Mixed-use developments integrate residential, commercial and industrial real estate into a single, compact site. Here, residents can walk to work, markets, restaurants and entertainment. Mixed-use developments saw their heyday in the U.S. prior to World War II. But then, along came America’s love affair with the […]
Market Information Is it Doom and Gloom for Home Buyers? For the last few years it has been downright difficult to be a home buyer.  At the beginning of the COVID 19 Pandemic, interest rates dropped to the lowest point in history, somewhere around 2.5 to 2.57%.  This opened the door for an incredible opportunity for home buyers.  The buying power just incredibly! The only […]