Residential Real Estate Market Outlook Buyers and investors might ask someone to describe the real estate/housing markets. You might call it a market driven by intense demand for homes, not just dream homes, but safe havens for themselves and their family at almost any price. It’s one of severe frustration for all including rate-stuck homeowners…
US Real Estate & Housing Market Reports The housing market has experienced fluctuations in recent months, with varying sales and price trends across different regions in the United States. It can be confusing with conflicting data from year over year conflicting with monthly changes. Taking a wider perspective on what’s happening in the real estate…
Are Home Prices About to Rocket? Everyone is waiting for interest rates to fall. That’s because those rates are what’s stopping the housing market specifically. High rates harm a lot of industries, but real estate is worst hit. It will recover quickly when rates go down. It’s those unwelcome interest rates that are preventing most…
Best Cities to Buy Real Estate Buyers and investors have a complex question to answer in which cities/states to buy a home or rental property. The housing market is tight from single family homes to apartments in most major cities. A wave of people have left the urban regions for the suburbs and beyond. But…
Client Acquisition Strategies Acquiring great clients is job number one for consultants, gig workers, agencies, Realtors, agencies, and developers. Any number of tactics might generate a dream client for you, but relying on cheap tricks is not a great way to promote yourself, your brand, career, and your startup agency. Instead, a strategy that gets…
Find a Coffee Shop Near You Below you’ll find a large interactive map of coffee shops in your location. Whether you’re in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Toronto, Seattle, Sacramento, Orange County, San Jose, Las Vegas, New York, Boston or Miami, no worries. If the coffee shop for you isn’t there, they don’t want…
Seller Leads through Better Marketing Today’s home sellers are a cagey lot, continuously holding on for a better price and the exact right time to sell their property. Still, as a Realtor among thousands in your region, you must build a system capable of reaching as many homeowners as possible. As one of my Realtor…
Which Are the Best US Cities to Live in? Dreaming of a better place in US to live? Now in 2023, the question is yielding many new destinations as many of the favorites have lost their lustre. You’re not alone in wanting to move to a new city. Millions of people think about moving to…
Finding Real Estate Leads With the buyer market drying up and home owners retreating for better times to sell their home, perhaps in 2024, a large number of Realtors are leaning hard on lead generation companies. As one of my clients once said, sales is a game of numbers. Yes, as volume grows, so does…
When Will It Be a Great Time to Buy a Home Again? In September, prospective homebuyers once again sat on the sidelines, and even backed out of intended purchases. The task for a good Realtor near you has never been greater, whether you’re selling or buying. Stats from the latest housing market report show home…
HomeBuyers Backing out of Home Deals A new report by Real Estate Firm Redfin on August’s pending home sales stats shows buyers are backing out of deals in the US Sunbelt cities. In particular, Phoenix, Tampa and Las Vegas. Jacksonville Florida were cited as suffering the greatest increase in cancelled deals. It comes as buyer…
When is the Next Stock Market Correction? Predicting the next stock market crash is never easy. So many economic, political, and international trade factors and more, are difficult to predict. We might think any mention of a stock market crash is pessimistic. Yet awareness of the factors that precede a crash is important for pensioners,…
Real Estate Marketing Packages It’s a new home selling season and opportunities still abound in 2022. The challenge of being seen and heard and then connecting is no easy matter however, which brings is to promotion and marketing. Realtors with a strong online presence will at least be able to reach buyers and sellers. Seller…
Unemployment Rate in the United States The Covid 19 pandemic interrupted a very positive reduction in the unemployment rate in the United states. 8 years of strong growth during the bull market stock market was crippled by the shutdowns. Now in late 2021, the economic recovery is beginning to deliver stronger job growth (4.8% unemployment…
Don’t Expect a Buyer’s Market in 2022 Without much support, other than cheap interest rates, the US housing market has soared for more than a decade, including the ultra rapid price rise in the last year. It’s made a few very wealthy and a lot of Realtors, home sellers, real estate investors, and rental housing…
US Home Prices Wondering about where home prices are headed? Is now the time to buy, and is selling now wise too? How high could US housing prices reach? Below we see the price forces and stats from real estate data sources such as NAR, NAHB, FRED, Redfin, Corelogic, Statista, Trading Economics and Reuters. The…
Will House and Condo Prices Fall? Hopeful home buyers are always asking, when will home prices drop throughout 2022 and into next year? Will we see house prices fall as frenzied buyers give up on their quest to find a house for sale? According to Redfin’s July 5th report, prices have dropped 2% in the…
Finding Houses for Sale We half way into 2021, and home prices don’t look to be losing their upward pace. In fact, even as new listings grow and sales plummet, house prices keep climbing past record heights. If you’re hoping to buy a home this year, you’ll need to be very strategic in your home…
Find Houses for Sale If you’re used to hunting through the MLS listings, you know the pickings are slim. To find a house in 2021, you have to broaden and refine your home search strategy. You may not be successful until 2022, You may not be successful until 2022, however the point is that the…
US Jobs Outlook The bungling of the recent jobs report is a sign of trouble with the current government and a sign the job market is troubled. The current report showed only 266,000 jobs created when almost 1 million were expected. This is a disaster. There are some job market and economic hurdles to deal…