den Boer Homes

I have, along with many others, been watching the housing market go on a tear for the past 2 years. Low inventory and low mortgage rates have combined to push housing prices up quickly. As a result I have seen potential buyers just give up looking, having been priced out of the market.I have 2 cl...

Interestingly, if you go back a couple or three years in real estate, you might remember when homes hit the market and stayed there on average 30-60 days. I know that's hard to believe, but its true. There was also plenty of inventory for buyers to choose from and unicorns were plentiful.Yesterda...

I have an investor who buys, fixes up, and resells homes. We were talking the other day before we listed and he was telling me he remove a wall in his latest venture. He does a really nice job on his renovations, but I was a bit worried. He said he also added a 4th bedroom.So, when I went to do l...

Yesterday I had the fun of stopping at my local Ford dealer to ask about the backup camera on my 2020 Explorer. It seems to be working about half the time. I walked over to a young lady and asked her about the issue. It seems that the 2020 Fords all have this issue and there are 60,000 backup cam...

The current real estate market can only be described as crazy. I showed a home last week to a couple that was priced at $545,000. It had scratched up floors, bad dog smell, very loud air conditioner, and some cosmetic issues. Nevertheless, my clients made an offer. We offered $550,000. The listin...

Like most other Multiple Listing Services in the country, there are rules put forth that we agents and members of the system have to follow. One of the common ones is that the pictures can't show the listing agents sign age or information. This is because listings are shared on agent websites and...

Some surprises are nice. Spur of the moment flowers. A beautiful sunset. A new puppy. Others not so much. New home builders are using a new tactic in their fight against rising costs that are catching buyers by surprise.I have clients who contracted with a builder back in February for a new home ...

Born on NC to mid-western parents, i think my reactions are somewhere between fast and slow. When I moved to New York after college, I found that I spoke faster, ate faster, just lived faster. I remember talking to the corporate office in NC and wondering why it took them so long to form a senten...

As if this real estate market is not crazy enough, I just spoke to an agent about a unique situation developing. This listing agent just had an offer terminated on their listing by a buyer who is making multiple offers on several different homes at the same time. This strategy has recently come a...

The Real estate market has been in hyper-drive now for the better part of a year. It has been driven by a scarcity of homes for sale on the market. Even before the pandemic we were faced with a shortage of homes to sell. The market responded by bidding up the prices of existing homes.At one point...