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Working in Crazy Times

To say these are crazy times is certainly an understatement. Many of us have wondered how crazy things could get since Covid arrived. So many directions to go on this but we’ll stick with the real estate world. Certainly declining inventory of homes for sale has occurred. Buyer demand hitting near all time highs has […]
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Zillow Bows Out of i-Buying Homes

Big news was announced this week when Zillow stated they will no longer be buying or making Instant Offers to buy homes across the country. In early October they announced they were putting the program on hold due to backlogs of homes, labor and material shortages. They had too much inventory on their books. It […]
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Why a Housing Bubble Isn’t Our Problem

I’ve mentioned in earlier posts that I think the fears of a housing bubble are misguided or more accurately not well founded. The number of people owning their homes outright, no mortgage debt at all, is still quite high, in the 25-30% range. The number of people with 50+% equity in their homes is also […]
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About That Inventory Shortage….

A quick video to discuss the actual state of new-on-market listing levels. While it’s true our “end of the month,” snapshot-in-time, numbers for available homes for sale are at record lows, in the 25-33% range of our historical homes-for-sale levels, it’s also true that our new listings taken each week and month are at or […]