Real Estate Blog
Standard and Upgrade Options
One of the reasons many homebuyers are drawn to buying a brand-new home is that they often get to choose many of the home’s features to suit their tastes. With a resale home, you pretty much get the place as is. But with new construction, you can call the shots on...
Home Price Growth Is Cooling Fast
December brought good tidings to homebuyers in the real estate market. Nationally, median home list prices dropped about 11% from their peak over the summer to hit $400,000 in December, according to a recent Realtor.com® report. While prices were still up by about...
Home Sellers Pricing Mistake
“You still see the hope in their eyes.” When Atlanta-based real estate agent Maura Neill agreed to sell a home this fall, she knew she faced an uphill battle. For one, the housing market had cooled significantly. But worse, these home sellers weren’t quite willing to...
Build-To-Rent Communities
Many renters crave the extra bedrooms, laundry facility, and backyard big enough for a pair of swings and a slide that single-family houses provide. But they’re facing a for-sale market with still-high housing prices and surging mortgage interest rates, pricing many...
Money-Saving Mortgages
When it comes to making the largest purchase of their lives, most homebuyers would prefer to play it safe in choosing a loan. That’s why fixed-rate mortgages, the gold standard of home loans, have long been the most popular. These 15-, 20-, and 30-year mortgages...
Should You Become a Real Estate Agent?
In the past two years, careers in real estate have become popular. In the U.S. alone, between 2020 and 2021, there was a 60% increase in people obtaining their real estate licenses. Google Trends data shows that “how to become a real estate agent” was the most...