Market Conditions
June 9, 2008
Diane Olick covers the housing market at CNBC. This is the report she did this morning covering the April “under contract” numbers according to The National Association of Realtors. NAR reports a 6.3% jump in homes […]
May 30, 2008
The underwriter leaned back in her chair. Her thoughts weren’t on the stack of files in front of her. She was worried about losing her home. She bought it two years ago, you see. In July, as […]
April 18, 2008
Last night at the Lo-Pro Mixer, someone asked me what I consider to be Very Vintage Vegas. At first I thought he was asking about the types of neighborhoods, and types of homes. But it […]
April 8, 2008
The months and months of doom and gloom and Armageddon seem to have come to an end. Hallelujah! The Bank owned homes are being gobbled up faster than new ones are coming up for sale. […]
April 8, 2008
The BalwdGuy says it best: Liar Liar Pants On Fire! and just for fun, watch the video he uses to make the point. Someone we all know and love got pretty chunky. I’m here to tell […]
March 3, 2008
A reader commented to me the other night that all he sees on other blogs is boring numbers. He’s really glad I don’t clog things up with charts and graphs and statistics and other stuff […]
January 18, 2008
Right now we’re at 3 year lows on interest rates. Historically, there’s not much difference between now and anytime in the recent past. When I bought my first home it was 1980. Look at the […]
January 11, 2008
It’s a funny thing. I didn’t sell a home in my first month as a Realtor back in 1990. I didn’t sell a home in December 2007 either. That’s the first time in 18 years. […]
January 7, 2008
From The Review Journal last week: Steve Sebelius tells us what it means in the latest edition of City Life. “If nothing else, going into a presidential election year in which big tax issues will […]
January 4, 2008
A simple answer: ignore them. Yesterday, a new client told me: We HATE our apartment Our neighbor is driving us crazy Our 2 kids have nowhere to play The landlord didn’t renew our lease the […]