Category: Housing Market Updates

What Experts Say Will Happen with Home Prices Next Year
For Buyers, For Sellers, Housing Market Updates, Pricing | September 22, 2022
What Experts Say Will Happen with Home Prices Next Year

Experts are starting to make their 2023 home price forecasts. As they do, most agree homes will continue to gain value, just at a slower pace. Over the past couple of years, home prices have risen at an unsustainable rate, leaving many to wonder how long it would last. If you’re asking yourself: what’s ahead for the price of my…

Watching the Stock Market? Check the Value of Your Home for Good News.
For Buyers, For Sellers, Housing Market Updates | September 20, 2022
Watching the Stock Market? Check the Value of Your Home for Good News.

While watching the stock market recently may have started to feel pretty challenging, checking the value of your home should come as welcome relief in this volatile time. If you’re a homeowner, your net worth got a big boost over the past few years thanks to rising home prices. And that increase in your wealth came in the form of…

Will My House Still Sell in Today’s Market?
For Sellers, Housing Market Updates, Selling Myths | September 19, 2022
Will My House Still Sell in Today’s Market?

If recent headlines about the housing market cooling and buyer demand moderating have you worried you’ve missed your chance to sell, here’s what you need to know. Buyer demand hasn’t disappeared, it’s just eased from the peak intensity we saw over the past two years. Buyer Demand Then and Now During the pandemic, mortgage rates hit record lows, and that spurred…

Buyers Are Regaining Some of Their Negotiation Power in Today’s Housing Market
First Time Home Buyers, For Buyers, Housing Market Updates, Move-Up Buyers | September 15, 2022
Buyers Are Regaining Some of Their Negotiation Power in Today’s Housing Market

If you’re thinking about buying a home today, there’s welcome news. Even though it’s still a sellers’ market, it’s a more moderate sellers’ market than last year. And the days of feeling like you may need to waive contingencies or pay drastically over asking price to get your offer considered may be coming to a close. Today, you should have…

Is the Real Estate Market Slowing Down, or Is This a Housing Bubble?
For Buyers, For Sellers, Housing Market Updates | September 14, 2022
Is the Real Estate Market Slowing Down, or Is This a Housing Bubble?

The talk of a housing bubble in the coming year seems to be at a fever pitch as rising mortgage rates continue to slow down an overheated real estate market. Over the past two years, home prices have appreciated at an unsustainable pace causing many to ask: are things just slowing down, or is a crash coming? To answer this…