Yikes!!! March is the start of the Spring buying season and is typically the first month where we see a noticeable increase in sales and this year was no exception and that is an understatement. This March had the highest number of sales for any month since 2006 and there is no other month even close […]
February is commonly just behind January as far as lowest number of sales. This January’s sales were not only higher than any January in the past 11 years, it was up over last January’s by about 15%! But then February’s sales came out to be slightly lower than those of last February so we are […]
There are a lot of decisions a seller has to make during the pre-listing and negotiations processes. During the pre-listing process the decisions mostly have to do with the Realtor they are going to list with, when to list, what listing price to start with and so on. During the negotiations process the decisions will […]
There are a lot of decisions a buyer has to make during the searching and purchase process. The first ones are usually about location, how to pay for the purchase and what they want. Narrowing these down are vital to being able to find something to buy and to being able to act quickly and decisively […]
January typically has the lowest number of sales for any month during any year and usually by a pretty noticeable amount. If that holds true again this year then we are probably going to see a very strong year. This January’s sales were not only higher than any January in the past 11 years, it […]
I’m going to share my thoughts with you regarding what we may see in our local real estate markets over the next year based on the statistics from 2016 and my past years of experience. Of course if there is some major national or international economic disturbance in the force, all bets are off – […]
Here are some new Christmas music video and a beautiful version of the Leonard Cohen song ‘Hallelujah’ done by the a capella (only voices, no instruments) group Pentatonix. First is the beautiful rendition of Leonard Cohen’s most famous composition, Hallelujah. Next is an upbeat version of Winter Wonderland combined with Don’t Worry Be Happy (it […]
The local 2016 real estate market may not have been as annoying/frustrating/awesome/disgusting/exciting (depending on how you viewed it) as the election, but it was still newsworthy nonetheless. Sales increased for the 8th straight year, prices rose and inventory remained too low. None of that was too newsworthy except for the fact that we are continuing […]
One of the clients I was working with this past month made a comment, during some back and forth with the seller, about how much she was going to be paying and that it is a lot of money. We got everything resolved on her deal so that both buyer and seller are happy, but […]
October was the 2nd month of 2016 when the sales were slightly below those in the same month of 2015. That may not seem significant to you, and in the long term it may not be, but changes in trends should never be ignored. We had a little dip in July but then a bigger […]
