Existing Home Sales Dropped 5.9% in October

According to Realtor.com, existing home sales dropped 5.9% in October. This is after a red-hot market during the Covid lockdowns which saw millions of home-buyers flock to the suburbs for more living space. With the continuing trend towards work-from-home for many in the jobs market, what is driving the decline in sales, and what could … Read more

Mortgage Closing Costs: Which Fees Are Negotiable?

For most people, buying a home is the largest purchase they’ll make in their life time, and as with most large purchases that involve multiple interested parties (the seller, the realtor, the seller’s bank and your bank, plus a title company in most cases) theres a TON of fees. Trying to get a straight answer … Read more

Working From Home: How To Survive The New Normal

Ever since the pandemic, working from home has increasingly become the norm for many industries. While the shift was initially due to necessity, with employers needing work to get done while being unable to have workers in the office, now even with the availability of vaccines and lower cases of COVID nation-wide, companies everywhere are … Read more

US Home Sales Are Dropping. Is Now A Good Time to Buy?

During the pandemic, how sales exploded. The combination of a huge number of companies transitioning to remote work, along side historical low rates at the beginning of lockdowns, coupled with supply chain issues that held up much of the new home construction created a perfect storm that spiked demand and constrained the supply of single … Read more