The analytics company founded by housing authority Robert Shiller, MacroMarkets LLC, has polled a group of 92 housing market experts. The consensus of opinion is that the single family housing market will begin wide-spread recovery in 2011.
This group predicts that housing prices will rise 12% between 2010 and 2014. [...]
It’s always good to think about what it is we need to do to keep up with the current real estate market. Here are 5 things we all need to KNOW!
1) Have a Back-up Plan.
We’ve certainly known this forever, but have we really taken the time to do so…obviously NOT! We need to think ahead [...]
To better understand the methodology involved in pricing real estate, one must first look at the current market conditions. Just because a home “costs” this much to construct does not mean it is worth that much money. The price of a home is determined, often, but the sales of comparable homes in a given [...]
Sometimes the motive for selling a home isn’t about upsizing, it’s about downsizing. It is certainly a new term in the “new normal” and we are hearing it a lot in the real estate industry. My daughter, who owns an estate sale business, is currently getting numerous calls from clients that are downsizing and simplifying. [...]
The Senate wants a $15,000 tax credit for all Homebuyers! All homebuyers, not just new home buyers- would be entitled to a $15,000 federal tax credit and no qualification caps would be placed on their income, under the recently introduced legislation. This new language was introduced by our own Senator Johnny Isakson (Georgia) who is [...]
Summer has arrived (this weekend) and it really FEELS like summer! Good thing being in the mountains makes a difference, often ten degrees or more from downtown Atlanta and many people have discovered that very fact by locating to the North Georgia Mountains. Since this is my first blog, let me give you a brief [...]