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Despite all of the talk of having a robust economy, it seems that housing is being overlooked as a talking point as it does not factor into the Inflation equation. Sadly, housing costs for both sales and rentals continue to increase on the heels of rising interest rates, which paints somewhat ...
The real estate industry remains complicated, and regardless of whether you attempt to buy, sell, or rent property using the services of a Realtor® or Agent to help with the process, or whether you choose to go it alone, the threat of wire fraud is very real and is always looming in the background....
This news should concern everybody because of the significance the housing market plays in the overall economy, which is also wandering out on to thin ice. According to the Mortgage Bankers association (MBA), in the face of continually rising interest rates mortgage demand just fell to a 25 year l...
As interest rates continue to rise and mortgage availability continues to decline, it is beginning to eerily remind us of something Yogi Berra once said: "It's like deja vu all over again." For those to have been in the game or to have owned or tried to buy property during the run-up to the 20...
When we created PropertyGuerilla.com one of our primary drivers was to allow users to determine for themselves how to manage their online correspondence and contact information as it pertains to real estate. In real estate, the information sought to build a database is the ultimate prize, and it i...
It seems like only yesterday that mortgages were at historically low rates with fewer hurdles to qualify versus the current state of affairs. That's because in terms of how quickly and significantly interest rates have risen, mortgage rates are now at 7% in response to the Federal Reserve rais...
Let's be realistic for a moment regarding home buying in this current market. With the exception of a select few, literally EVERYONE is having a tougher time buying homes than they were over the past several years. Of course, there are different reasons for each group defined nowad...
Each day we scour the marketplace for news to share that is pertinent to both consumers and real estate industry professionals alike. When we saw this article the title was one of “interesting” wording, so after reading between the lines it still brings good news to the table. Ask any Realtor® ...
Well as new fears about new covid variants dominate the airwaves and social media outlets, it seems that the fear factor for housing is following along. Prices have not shown any sign of letting up, and sentiment among would be buyers is starting to reflect the same message. A good example of this l...
Despite fears that were initially put forth when then pandemic began, housing has not only been resilient, but literally record setting in almost every way. The secondary mortgage giants Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FMCC) played a big part in this, as they always have. Strangely enough, despit...
With the feverish pace of the housing market, we really expected to see many more articles and opinions like this than we have. As we always do, when we run across one that has obviously been given some thought before being written, we just can't help but offer up our two cents as well. To be clear,...
It seems that the waiting game is one that Rocket Mortgage® is not willing to play as they announce that they are jumping head first into both iBuying and discount real estate services in an effort to "combine every aspect of home selling and buying into one simple, customizable platform." Rocke...
This post is specifically dedicated to our Realtor® friends who are growing in numbers because we've had an artificially created market boom since Spring of last year, and the promise of "easy money" has them growing in ranks. Guess what? When people see that simply listing a house on the MLS th...
It seems that the waiting game is one that Rocket Mortgage® is not willing to play as they announce that they are jumping head first into both iBuying and discount real estate services in an effort to “combine every aspect of home selling and buying into one simple, customizable platform.” Rock...
As housing inventory continues to dwindle and prices continue to surge, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has expressed more concern based on the pattern of sharply increasing inflation and how it could further add to the woes of the overall real estate market. She has said that short term inflation i...
In earlier blog posts we had informed you of ongoing class action suits against the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) in a suit alleging anti-trust violations against NAR and the 20 largest Multiple Listing Service (MLS) boards in the Country. Recently there was a settlement reached between N...
Lately there’s been a lot of news about “hacking” and it’s nothing new. For years, banks, financial institutions, websites, heck…even the IRS have been hacked. It’s too early to know if this will ever be stopped because as technology to protect information gets better, so does the techno...
Even as mortgage rates creep up, with today’s fixed-rate 30 year average at 3.38% they are still incredibly low by any measure, but the panic days of the pandemic may be in our rear view. Looking back, it was only in January of 2021 that rates dropped to the lowest ever recorded levels, and while ...
It seems that the chickens may have come home to roost when it pertains to real estate and the continued price escalation of housing. As the pandemic took hold and despite some ghastly predictions as to the fate of housing, the real estate market reacted swiftly and has showed no signs of letting up...