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Spring Season, Rising Rates Driving Buyer Traffic
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Spring is always a big season for real estate. Buyers come out of their long winter hibernation, check that they didn’t see their shadows, and agree all together that it’s time to shop for homes. The weather is nicer, flowers are blooming, and front yard marketing pictures of listings are looking great. Buyers also know ...Read More
Home Prices Up, Sellers Cashing In
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January home price index numbers came out recently and prices were up 6.2% nationally, from a year ago. That’s in line with December’s 6.3% gain that had been the biggest one year price gains we’ve seen in the last three years. We’ve been repeating it for a while now, but the narrative behind these higher ...Read More
Tax Time! How New Tax Laws Affect Homeowners And Buyers
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Tax season is here, and with the recent changes from the Trump tax overhaul, there’s been a lot of confusion about what it means for home buyers and owners. We’ve heard some misconceptions floating around, and we thought it’s a good time to update you on just a few of the key changes that will ...Read More
No Halloween Scares Here – Just Good News for New Home Sales!
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Have you seen the new homes being built lately? They’re a little nicer than a creaky old haunted house! Sales numbers are in for last month, and in a bit of a surprise, sales of new homes jumped way up (18.9 percent), to the highest levels in almost 10 years! This was in ...Read More
Buyers Have Enjoyed 2 Months of Lowering Rates, But Will That Change?
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Strike now while the rates are still low? For the past few years we’ve been enjoying mortgage rates that have hovered around the 4% range, and we’ve seen the housing market continue to surge throughout that time. Sales and home values keep trending upward, and it’s a no-brainer that it doesn’t hurt when historic rates ...Read More
Market Still Climbing As Sales, Prices Rise
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After looking like things might try to level off for a bit at the beginning of 2017, the market has continued to climb recently, showing no signs of stopping any time soon. Prices and sales are up across the country at unexpected levels, even as mortgage rates spiked higher last month. Mortgage rates have actually ...Read More
New Home Sales Trending Upward
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If you’re going to make predictions about something, it’s always nice when they come true… If they’re about something that helps our industry, like new home sales for Real Estate, then it’s great when they exceed expectations! One of the predictions we made for trends to watch in 2017 is beginning to show some results, ...Read More
Looking To Buy? Let’s Talk Down Payments
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Whether you’re planning to upgrade from one home to another, or are buying a home for the first time, strategizing and saving for a down payment will be on your mind (or should be). But just because it’s important and possibly challenging, doesn’t mean it has to be stressful. If you have a plan and ...Read More
What Can We Expect From Real Estate This Year?
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2016 was another good year for the housing market. We saw strong gains in home values, and mortgage rates averaged about 3.5% for the year – the lowest since Freddie Mac started keeping track of this in 1972! This, an improving economy, and high demand drove big sales gains also. There were concerns that affordability ...Read More
Forget The Fall Slowdown – Home Sales At 10 Year Highs!
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The fall season is usually a slower one for Real Estate, but not this year. Even though analysts had called for a predictable slowdown in home sales this autumn, we’ve instead seen the housing market continue to grow over the past few months. October numbers are in now, and they actually show that we just ...Read More
