What to expect from the housing market in 2024

2024 might be a little more kind to prospective home buyers, homeowners and renters than in 2023. The housing market was downright hostile to hopeful movers in 2023. With average mortgage interest rates hitting 8% in mid-October 2023 and the median sales price for an existing home is the U.S. was $3

Buyer's "Love Letters" - Should you read them when selling your home?

  Selling a home can be an emotional experience. As a seller, it's naturaly to want to make sure that the buyer loves the home just as much as you do and will take care of it. In other words, you're looking for the perfect buyer with the perfect offer. Home buyers understand this, and in recent sell

Fall 2023 Housing Market Outlook

  Despite higher mortgage rates, the market remains as competitive as ever thanks to strong demand coupled with tight inventory supply, due, in part, to those who purchased homes in recent years at record-low interest rates staying put. Since mortgage rates remain higher than the average over the la

Housing Market Signals to Watch For

  The housing market has been crazy over the past few years. While there have always been periods of ebbs and flows, buyer's markets and seller's markets, yet the frenetic pace and swings since the start of the pandemic has had everyone on edge. Now that interest rates have climbed back to more "nor