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Nearly Half Of Home Sellers Are Making Concessions To Woo Buyers
Source: Redfin --- Sellers are offering to cover the cost of repairs, mortgage-rate buydowns and closing costs as rising interest rates dampen homebuyer demand. Pandemic boomtowns and pricey coastal markets, including Phoenix and Seattle, have seen the biggest...
Is Now A Good Time to Sell or Rent My House?
Source: US News --- The U.S. is short 6.5 million single-family homes, according to a realtor.com report released March 8. This means that the rate of household formations is outpacing the amount of homes constructed, and that spells a major inventory crunch for...
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What is a good income to buy a house? You’ll need at least $100,000 in nearly 40% of markets
Source: USA Today --- Even as mortgage rates doubled since the start of the year, home prices grew in nine out of 10 metro markets in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to the National Association of Realtors’ latest quarterly report. Eighteen percent of the 186...
Spring homebuying and selling season is here. Are you ready?
Source: CNN Business --- Super Bowl weekend is the unofficial kick-off to the peak spring home buying and selling season, according to many real estate agents. Are you ready? If you’re feeling unsure and confused, you’re not alone. The US housing market is giving off...
Boomer Dads Are Driving Real-Estate Agents Nuts
Source: Curbed --- Last spring at a townhouse showing in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the agent David Harris watched his client, a married millennial with a kid, bounce from room to room before taking a seat on a staged sofa — a gesture Harris had come to regard as a cue that...
Three Tips To Help You Become A Successful Real Estate Developer
Source: Forbes --- Real estate development can be one of the most lucrative small businesses out there. A savvy businessperson who can navigate reasonable risks can build an empire that will finance a comfortable, rewarding lifestyle. Plus, who doesn't look good in a...
Selling your home? List it midweek
Source: Housing Wire --- A new report from Redfin shows that homes listed midweek sell for an average of $1,700 more than homes listed on the weekend, based on homes sold above their list price from July 2020 through February 2021. And they sell faster, too. Putting a...
What Is a Wraparound Loan, and Is It Right for You?
Source: Realtor . Com --- While home buyers might hope that they will qualify for a mortgage from the usual financial institutions, like a bank, they may find that their spotty credit score is an obstacle that prevents them from qualifying. What then? One Plan B may...
4 Big Incentives for Homeowners to Sell Now
Source: Keeping Current Matters --- The housing market keeps sailing along. The only headwind that could take it off course is the lack of inventory for sale. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reports that there were 410,000 fewer single-family homes for sale...
Understanding Current Market Signals In Real Estate Investment Planning
Source: Forbes --- By the end of 2020, housing prices had risen in major metropolitan areas in the country, allowing homeowners to see the value of their homes increase substantially. For first-time buyers this was not such good news, however, causing many to put...
Four Work-From-Home Strategies To Embrace For Your Real Estate Business
Source: Forbes --- If you ask me, working from home is amazing. You can wear pajamas from the waist down, you have no commute and you can even sleep in. I understand that the process of reading on a train or after-work drinks with your co-workers has been lost, but...
Zillow blasts back at real estate startup’s antitrust suit
Source: Politico --- An antitrust suit against Zillow over how it displays real estate listings could cripple the platform, the company said in court filings Friday, warning that the case may ruin the nation's most popular website to search for homes for sale. Real...
There’s More To A Commercial Real Estate Loan Than Interest Rate
Source: Forbes --- When shopping for commercial real estate financing, it all comes down to the numbers. There's one figure that borrowers tend to view with laser focus: the interest rate. But the cost of commercial financing is only one side of the equation. The real...
Three Essential Disciplines To Help You Succeed In Real Estate Investing
Source: Forbes --- There are three disciplines that are distinctly important and lead to success or failure in real estate investing. It’s like a three-legged stool. You need to have all three, and people tend to be good at one or two of these, but rarely at three....
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