CAUSE AND EFFECT SYNDROME 📉 New Jobless Claims: Initial claims unexpectedly fell, while continuing claims reached a 3-year high due to storms and the Boeing strike. 🔗 Effect: Labor market shifts could lower long-term yields, potentially easing mortgage rates if job growth slows. 🏠 Homebuyer Hesi
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10/29/2024
In fact, I'll share more than one secret! 🤫✨ Even in a seller's market, selling a home involves more than just putting up a 'For Sale' sign. 🏡✨ Here's why: you can't know what you don't know! So, if you're thinking about selling, remember these realtor secrets: 📸 Hire a pro photographer and vide
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06/10/2024
It’s your monthly list of to-dos to keep homes in tip-top shape! March is here, and it's time to give your home a little TLC! Check these tasks off your list to keep your home running smoothly: Check/replace your furnace filter for clean, fresh air. Change batteries in your carbon monoxide and
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03/05/2024
It is an approach to architecture that seeks to connect building occupants more closely to nature. Biophilic designed buildings incorporate things like natural lighting and ventilation, natural landscape features and other elements for creating a more productive and healthy built environment for
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01/25/2024
Lower Mortgage RatesMore ChoicesHome Prices Stabilizing🌟 Ready for a 2024 Real Estate Update?📈 If you're thinking about buying or selling a home, it's time to get excited! Despite 2023's challenges with higher mortgage rates and limited homes on the market, we're entering a promising new year! 🏡✨
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01/16/2024
Last year, one factor drove the real estate market more than any other: rising mortgage rates.In March 2022, the Federal Reserve began a series of interest rate hikes in an effort to pump the brakes on inflation.1 And while some market sectors have been slow to respond, the housing market has rea
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01/23/2023
You don't have to break the bank to celebrate the holidays in style—even in this season of inflation. Prices may be higher on everything from food to gifts to decorations, but there are still plenty of opportunities to eke out extra savings.For example, according to the U.S. Environmental Protect
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12/12/2022
Over the past few years, a real estate buying frenzy bid up home prices to eye-popping amounts. However, as mortgage rates have risen, buyer demand has cooled. 1 Consequently, home sellers who enter the market today may need to reset their expectations.The reality is, it’s no longer enough to sti
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11/03/2022
Deciding whether to jump into the housing market or rent instead is rarely an easy decision – especially if you’re a first-time homebuyer. But in today’s whirlwind market, you may find it particularly challenging to pinpoint the best time to start exploring homeownership. A real estate boom duri
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10/17/2022
Mortgage rates have been on a roller coaster ride this year, rising and falling amid inflationary pressures and economic uncertainty. And even the experts are divided when it comes to predicting where rates are headed next.1This climate has been unsettling for some homebuyers and sellers. However
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09/03/2022