Alison Moss's (alisonmoss) Blog

The Rebounding Spring Cincinnati Real Estate Market: A Realtor’s Perspective Despite what the media is reporting I am out in the marketplace every day and want to report about the activity I have witnessed in the past two weeks. I have seen house after house that my buyers were interested in go u...

Cincinnati Real Estate: Competing Against Short Sales and Foreclosures Nationally nearly half of all home sales involve short sales or foreclosure sales, many home sellers are finding that traditional sales are competing with discounted prices offered by foreclosed properties and short sales in t...

Cincinnati Real Estate: Tax Credit For Vacant Home Buyers There is a bill in the Ohio legislature that would give home buyers who purchase a vacant property a tax credit. The purpose of the tax credit is to provide incentives to buyers who purchase  properties that have be...

Cincinnati Metro launched six hybrid mass transit buses today on Earth Day. To celebrate the occasion there was a parade of the new buses from Eden Park to Downtown. This story was featured on CNN. It is great to see  national news covering positive stories about Cincinnati.

Cincinnati Real Estate: Options for Delinquent Homeowners Today I went to Comey & Shepherd’s quarterly meeting and learned a significant amount about how to assist delinquent homeowners who are behind on their mortgage payments. Since this is such a confusing topic I hope ...

Cincinnati Real Estate: Short Sales The Cincinnati Enquirer ran an article today on the rising number of short sales occurring in the current real estate market. Short sales are transactions  that occur when a bank or lender agrees to accept less than what's owed on a home loan to avoid foreclosu...

Cincinnati Real Estate: Banks Blacklist Condos A number of lending institutions and banks are blacklisting condo developments, refusing to write loans to prospective buyers, according to Marketplace. South Florida has been particularly hard hit by this, adding additional strain to the overbuilt c...

Mortgage Rates Hit All-Time Record Lows For all of the skeptics out there who are in a holding pattern trying to decide if it is a good time to buy property, I found this article from RIS Media that provides concrete data supporting  this as fact. Mortgage rates are at record lows and many buyers...

Homeowners Insurance: Is your coverage sufficient? Do you have adequate insurance coverage for your home? What you paid for your home a few years ago is less than what you would have to pay now to rebuild the same home. Keeping your homeowners insurance coverage updated is extremely important esp...

April 1st Mortgage Appraisal Changes Impact Cincinnati Real Estate The Housing and Urban Development agency (HUD) is now adopting the same appraisal guidelines as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on April 1, 2009. The changes are intended to provide a more accurate appraisal in the changing real estate...