The pandemic drastically changed how we lived our lives over the last year and a half. We changed how we worked, how we socialized, and even how we educated our children. But perhaps more than anything, it forced many of us to rethink where and how we want to live. City dwellers fled for the […]
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10 Home Trends Stealing the Spotlight in 2022
Home design trends that are expected to loom large in 2022 are an evolution of what started during the pandemic when life was disrupted and more homeowners started reevaluating their surroundings. Cases in point: the rise of home offices and outdoor living spaces. Other hot trends started years earlier, professional grade appliances, Smart Home features, […]
6 Reasons Why Rents Will Keep Climbing & How To Hedge Against It
Rents are shooting up, and new data suggests they’ll keep climbing at an elevated pace in the years ahead. The rally began in the housing market, where a buying frenzy dragged national inventory to historic lows and led prices to surge at their fastest rate in over 30 years. Not surprisingly it’s now spilling over into the […]
What to Expect When Shifting to a Buyer’s Market
2021 marks the tenth straight year that central Ohio home prices have climbed above the traditional norm of 4% per year. Will 2021 be the year that the housing market correction, and is a crash ahead? Given the low unemployment, wage growth and low interest rates, most economists today don’t foresee a recession in the […]
5 Tips To Prepare for an Estate Sale
Selling everything in a home is no simple task, and just the thought can leave folks feeling completely overwhelmed. Enter the estate sale. An estate sale or estate liquidation is a sale or auction to dispose of a substantial portion of the belongings/property owned by a person who must dispose of their personal property to […]
NEW Work From Home Scores for U.S. Counties
The option to work from home or remotely is likely to become part of the workforce culture. A larger fraction of workers allowed to work from home will change the mix of demand for residential and commercial real estate between the city and the suburbs, give rise to new home designs that allow workers to […]
Does a Cash-Out Refi Affect Property Tax?
A cash-out refinance replaces your existing mortgage with a new home loan for more than you owe on your house. The difference goes to you in cash and you can spend it on home improvements, debt consolidation or other financial needs. You must have equity built up in your house to use a cash-out refinance. […]
Mortgage Rates Will Rise in 2021, 5 Reasons Why.
Mortgage interest rates are going to rise in 2021. The Mortgage Bankers Association in its most recent forecast sees two things that stand out. First, 2020 will prove itself to be the second biggest mortgage year in history. At over three trillion, 2020 will only stand behind 2003 in single family mortgage production history. Second, the MBA joined […]
Study Reports 90% of Consumers Used an Agent in 2018
If you were thinking tech and for-sale-by-owner real estate transactions might replace real estate agents, new data should put this notion to rest: in the first half of 2018, 90% of home buyers and sellers used an real estate agent, according to the REAL Trends 2018 Consumer Study released on Monday, That’s the highest rate […]
Home Warranties Explained
While buying a home remains one of the biggest investments a person will make in his or her life, there’s always a lingering fear that something may go wrong soon after the purchase. Though home inspections may catch most of these problems before they occur, what happens if a major system or appliance goes haywire […]