House Hunting by Zip Code Can Yield Surprises
If you ask anyone doing serious house hunting how they are going about it, there are few who won’t point to the web (nationally, 88% use it) as at least one of the top two most useful tools (their...
View ArticleOff and Off: Real Estate Vocabulary Has Both
Real estate listings consist of the lineup of homes that are currently “on the market.” They’re for sale. Offered to buyers. Available for purchase. “On the market” is a straightforward real estate...
View ArticleHomeowners Prepare for an El Niño Winter
With fall newly arrived, it’s a time of year when homeowners can breathe a sigh of relief; relax and take it easy. With summer behind us, most gardens require less attention. The demands harsh winter...
View ArticleReal Estate Market News is Upbeat, Downbeat (and Sideways)
At the beginning of any month, onlookers can find batches of fresh reports about national real estate market activity. Take October, for instance. We’ve just learned a bunch about what happened across...
View ArticleReverse Mortgage Candidates Cautioned to Seek Advice
Whenever the words “reverse mortgage” are uttered, any TV viewer immediately makes the connection with one of several celebrity spokesmen who blanket the airwaves with commercials touting the concept....
View ArticleLocal Real Estate Observers Greeted with Multiple Surges
If you are a real estate observer, last week was the time of month when you typically look for the major data releases which detail how residential sales and prices performed in the previous month....
View ArticleSelling a House Can Take a little ‘Plastic Surgery’
Suppose you finally came to an important decision—that this fall is going to be the right time for selling your house. If you had been biding your time, watching other houses being listed and closed...
View ArticleAgent Investigates Home Prices ‘Starting at $115 Million’
I’ll admit it: the tease was irresistible. There was no good reason why I should take the time to read on, even though it was near the top of the Wall Street Journal’s Real Estate section. This was not...
View ArticleReal Estate Listings are the Backbone of an Industry
The first stop for anyone looking for a new home or for anyone who is even mildly curious about what properties are currently available—is real estate listings. Like those you find here on my site,...
View ArticleMortgage Rate Jolt: Just a Wakeup Call?
There’s a reason that home loan providers sometimes choose to lead their ads with a ‘lock’ provision. They know that potential clients likely to be enticed by low mortgage rate numbers are fairly...
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