House Features Most Wanted Today What are buyers wanting in their next home this year? It’s an interesting mix of features, yet are these features you’d be willing to upgrade for to sell your home at a higher price? NAHB conducted a survey of new home buyers about what they were looking for in a…
6 Month Market Forecast The correction in the markets today is casting a shadow on the 6 month forecast. Everything was rolling along (and still is) however a number of investor doubts and creeping in as market news and trading volume bottoms out. The Dow Jones, S&P 500 and NASDAQ all recovered a little after…
S&P 500 Forecast 2022 If you’d invested money in S&P 500 stocks last spring of 2020, you would have almost doubled your ROI. S&P is regarded as the “real stock market” by many investors and the value and earnings stocks you can find here might be worth having. So far in 2021, despite today’s setback,…
Dow Forecast DJIA Should you buy Dow Jones 30 stocks? Mega caps and industrials have done well with the DOW hitting new heights, yet interest rate worries, employment and supply issues are plaguing the DJIA and sending the stock market lower. Today, the Dow took a tumble on Covid variant, recovery worries, job losses. As…
The Best Stocks to Buy We’re past the half way mark of 2021, looking ahead to 2022 and what the economy will look like. And we’re wondering which new stocks will get the recommendations and whether they’re suitable for our investment portfolio. 2022 will be a different year for investors. After a solid Xmas season…
Pre-Crash Stock Investing Being a future-oriented market blog, we must explore investing opportunities coming down the pike. Of course this includes the opportunity to buy before market bubbles and market crashes. This isn’t to say a stock market crash is imminent, but only that many corrections will be in the forecast. Knowing what might happen…
Housing Market Crash Ahead? Buyers are obsessed with the question of if house prices will fall this year, while many homeowners are wondering if they should sell their house as prices appear to be peaking. There’s been talk of a housing crash for years now and it never happened. Some had such strong convictions about it….
Stock Market this Week Futures are up this evening after quite a steep price rise last week. Will it hold, or will some unforeseen speech bring it down. With no news planned, it might be a good week ahead. No news is good news! By far, the biggest market factor and news story for the…
Is There Any Chance House Prices will Fall? The top question from buyers isn’t about how to save and qualify for a home mortgage, or how to win a bidding war, or how to choose a Real estate agent. The top question asked is “when will home prices fall.” The rationale is simple. They want…
Florida Real Estate Market Florida Realtors’ Brad O’Connor said the May market in Florida was fine and that the trend now is similar to what it was before the pandemic. Yet, being down 58% in inventory year over year means the Florida real estate market is under pressure. Stats show that for every person that…