CoreLogic

February 19, 2018

You Snooze, You Lose

The motto for today’s real estate market should be “You Snooze You Lose“! Interest rates have slowly begun to creep a little higher.  The number of homes for sale continues to be very, very low making it difficult for buyers to […]
January 9, 2018

Home Equity Rising

Keeping Current Matters recently reported: 712,000 Homes in the US Regained Equity in the Past 12 Months!   CoreLogic’s latest Equity Report revealed that “over the past 12 months, 712,000 borrowers moved into positive equity.” This is great news, as the share of homeowners with negative […]
September 8, 2017
Home Values and real estate

Do You Know Home’s Value?

According to Keeping Current Matters the latest edition of CoreLogic’s Home Price Index shows that nationally, home prices have appreciated 6.7% over the last year and 0.9% month-over-month. The release of the report included this headline,  “National Home Prices Now 50% Above March […]
May 17, 2017

List Your Home Today!

Keeping Current Matters paints a picture why fence-sitting sellers need to “List Your Homed Today!” 3 Charts That Shout, ‘List Your Home Today!’ In school, we all learned the theory of supply and demand. When the demand for an item is […]
April 13, 2017
CoreLogic

Cincinnati Foreclosures

As the greater Cincinnati real estate market heats up there’s some concern about repeating the craziness that crashed the economy not so long ago.   In February, 2017 (latest data available from Multiple Listing Service of Greater Cincinnati) 8.14% of […]
March 10, 2017

Cash Home Buyers in Cincinnati Ohio

Lots of cash home buyers in greater Cincinnati! According to the Multiple Listing Service of Greater Cincinnati during 2016 a total of 22,939 single family homes/condos were sold/closed and %24.5 of the deals were paid for with cash.  Compared to  2015, […]
July 5, 2016

Foreclosure Process Speeding Up in Ohio

If the property next has been vacant forever and waiting for the lender to foreclose.  Governor John Kasich signed the bill last week  (H.B. 390) aimed at speeding up the foreclosure process in Ohio.  Now we must wait 90 days […]
January 27, 2016
CoreLogic

Are There Cash Buyers for Homes in Greater Cincinnati?

There are cash buyers for homes in greater Cincinnati! According to the Multiple Listing Service of Greater Cincinnati during 2015, 24,275 single family homes and/or condos were sold and closed.  That equates to 24% of the deals or 5,930 closings where […]
September 11, 2015
Dodd Frank Act

Dodd-Frank Act Celebrates its 5th Birthday

Why should buyers and sellers care about the Dodd-Frank Act celebrating its 5th birthday?  The agency impacts many institutions we all deal with on a daily basis-but the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued new rules […]