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What Buyers Need To Know About the Inventory of Homes Available for Sale
If you’re thinking about buying a home, you’re likely trying to juggle your needs, current mortgage rates, home prices, your schedule, and more to try to decide if you want to jump into the market. If this sounds like you, here’s one key factor that could help you with your decision: there are more homes for sale today […]
What Homeowners Want To Know About Selling in Today’s Market
If you’re thinking about selling your house, you’re likely hearing about the cooling housing market and wondering what that means for you. While it’s not the peak intensity we saw during the pandemic, we’re still in a sellers’ market. That means you haven’t missed your window. Realtor.com explains: “. . . while prospective home sellers may lament that […]
Mortgage Rates Will Come Down, It’s Just a Matter of Time
This past year, rising mortgage rates have slowed the red-hot housing market. Over the past nine months, we’ve seen fewer homes sold than the previous month as home price growth has slowed. All of this is due to the fact that the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has doubled this year, severely limiting homebuying power for […]
More People Are Finding the Benefits of Multigenerational Households Today
If you’re thinking of buying a home and living with siblings, parents, or grandparents, then multigenerational living may be for you. The Pew Research Center defines a multigenerational household as a home with two or more adult generations. And the number of individuals choosing multigenerational living has increased over the past 50 years. As you consider this […]
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If you are thinking of selling your investment property anytime in the next 1 to 5 years…
You should consider selling now. Our market has seen price increases for 11 straight years and many economic experts are saying we’re headed for a market correction. The unprecedented rise in interest rates has significantly reduced demand for homes. Recent headlines show Zillow lost over $50 million in the 3rd Quarter which looks relatively good compared to […]
The Wood Wide Web
The Wood Wide Web Donna and I just celebrated our 30th Wedding Anniversary in Canmore And Vancouver Island in Canada. As we took a boat cruise on Lake Minnewanka we saw a grove of trees and were told the whole grove covering acres and what looked like 1000 trees was actually just one tree. We […]
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“Should I wait until the market crashes until I buy another investment property?”
Also sometimes stated as “Foreclosures are coming… so I’ll get a deal if I wait.” My answer is “No – buy now!” Why? Because demand is still so strong for investment homes and the months-of-remaining inventory still firmly shows we are in a Sellers’ Market. Our investors like to buy in three counties. All three: Cobb, […]
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A Good Real Estate Agent Adds Value!
Or Realtors Charge Less than big tech and sell homes for more money Over the last few years the traditional real estate industry has been under attack from dozens of Tech companies sure they can “add value” by cutting out the real estate agent or at least by cutting out a portion of the commission. […]
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What to look for in the coming market!
We’re seeing a market shift right this summer. The rise in interest rates and the continuing rise in home prices has made it significantly less affordable to buy a home. The economist who predicted the housing crash in 2008 thinks we are now “halfway through the fall.” The number of sales is predicted to fall and […]
