Have you been looking to upgrade your current home? It looks like now is the perfect time to move up especially if you have been considering a premium or luxury home in our area. A premium home is one that is priced at the top 25% of the price …

Over the years, I have written a lot about the benefits of home ownership. One benefit that always rises to the top is the added wealth homeowners gain simply by paying their mortgage while their home increases in value.

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) recently broke down …

Much has been written about the millennial generation and whether or not they, as a whole, believe in homeownership as part of attaining the American Dream.

Unlike generations before them, millennials have taken longer to obtain traditional milestones, such as getting married, starting a family and buying a …

Over the past few years, we have been in a strong seller’s market where bidding wars were common and expected. A seller’s market is a market where the inventory of homes for sale cannot satisfy the number of buyers who want to purchase a home.

In some of …

Just like our clocks overnight Saturday, our local housing market will soon “Spring Forward”! Similar to the tension in a spring, the lack of inventory available in our area has been holding back our local market.  

Many potential sellers in our area believe that waiting until spring is …

If your goal is to buy a home of your own in 2019, here are 3 tips that will help make that dream a reality:

Many potential home sellers believe that rising interest rates have scared away buyers and therefore have not listed their property for sale yet. But, the truth is that buyers who were unable to find a home last year are out in force, and there are more coming.

Nerd …

In the most recent Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers from the National Association of Realtors, married couples once again topped the first-time homebuyers statistics in 2018 at 54% of all buyers. This is very understandable as buying a home is a lot more attainable with two …

The price for residential real estate, like the price of most items, is determined by the theory of “Supply and Demand”. If many people are looking to buy real estate and the supply of real estate is limited, the price of real estate increases.

The supply of homes …

If you are thinking of selling your house this year or buying a new one, I'm sure today's real estate headlines can be a bit confusing...perhaps even concerning. Are home prices dropping or are they just rising at a slower rate? What is really happening with interest rates? What …