den Boer Homes

Exciting times! The home is under contract and you as the buyer/Seller just found out you can't be there at the closing. What do you do?This comes up fairly often. One way to solve this challenge is for the seller/Buyer to enlist a friend or relative to "Stand in" for them at the closing table. T...

Many times buyers walk into a home to find it the one. It meets all their requirements, checks all the boxes. They are in love! The offer is sent and accepted. Can it get any better? Maybe, but it can certainly get worse.I have a listing that is the best maintained, cutest house in the neighborho...

I have been speaking with quite a few agents recently about the market. It has definitely slowed, they all said. We can see in the office stats that unit sales have fallen since the interest rates started rising. Another indicator is the volume of calls agents are receiving from loan officers, de...

I was out photographing downtown Woodstock the other day for Rezide Properties, a local custom builder, when I ran across this crazy contraption. It is a 4 wheeled vehicle, powered by people pedaling from the chairs on either side of the trolly.The vehicle is run by a fellow named Ellis. He and I...

For several years homes have been selling within minutes of hitting the market. The low inventory of homes and low interest rates drove buyers into a near frenzy, competing with one another and pushing up home prices. Home sellers got used to homes selling the day their homes hit the market. How ...

I read today that prognosticators are indicating interest rates may exceed 10% next year. I also read where those same folks are saying home values could decline 15% next year. The former is not great, but the latter could be very good for buyers. Not bad for sellers either since home values are ...

Interest rates are going up. On the news this morning the talking heads were saying the Fed might raise interest rates again this month by a full percentage point to combat the 9.1% inflation rate. This will translate into higher rates for mortgages among many other things. This will dampen the d...

For 2 or 3 years the real estate market has been a frustrating one of buyers and their agents alike. Too few homes being chased by too many buyers. Perhaps the balance in the market is about to change.Rising interest rates are likely to force some potential buyers out of the market, with them not...

Like a driver lightly tapping the brakes on a car, we are starting to see signs of a slowdown in the real estate market. The overheated frenzy of home buying is not over, only becoming less crazy. Homes on the market are selling in a few days now instead of a few hours. We are starting to see sel...

There are so many things that are interesting to do in the Atlanta area. We have professional baseball, soccer, basketball teams to root for. We have arts and crafts shows going on all the time. There is the renaissance Fair just south of town. The ocean is 4-5 hours away. The mountains are an ho...