Keeping Current Matters

April 30, 2018

Best States for Millennials

New Study Shows ‘Best States for Millennials’ Keeping Current Matters update:A new study by WalletHub used “30 key metrics, ranging from the share of millennials to millennial unemployment rate to millennial voter-turnout rate” to find out which states are the ‘Best States for Millennials.’ Source: […]
April 11, 2018

House Prices: Simply a Matter of Supply & Demand

Keeping Current Matters always explains the real estate market in easy to understand terms.  Why are home prices still rising? It is a simple answer. There are more purchasers in the market right now than there are available homes for […]
March 26, 2018

How to Attract Millennial Buyers

In Cincinnati real estate it’s all about timing.  Who’s moving? Who’s downsizing?  Who’s moving up? Who’s resizing?  It turns out that attracting millennial buyers is the key to today’s real estate market. According to the 2018 Home Buyer and Seller Generational […]
March 23, 2018

Do Rising Mortgage Interest Rates Impact Real Estate Prices?

Recently, Freddie Mac published an Insight Report titled Nowhere to go but up? How increasing mortgage rates could affect housing. The report focused on the impact the projected rise in mortgage rates might have on the housing market this year. Keeping Current Matters addressed the […]
March 5, 2018

Are Home Values Rising Too Fast?

Are greater Cincinnati home values rising too fast? Keeping Current Matters calls it “overinflated”. Last week, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released their most recent Existing Home Sales Report. According to the report: “The median existing-home price for all housing types in January […]
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 […]
February 1, 2018

2 Major Myths Holding Home Buyers Back

The 2 Major Myths Holding Back Home Buyers Keeping Current Matters recently published a great article detailing 2 major buying myths: Urban Institute recently released a report entitled, “Barriers to Accessing Homeownership,” which revealed that “eighty percent of consumers either are unaware of how […]
January 22, 2018

Ohio On The Move

Ohio residents are moving out-of-state in 2017. Many people track the migration of birds and animals but for decades Atlas has tracked moving migration patterns. According to the latest survey by Atlas Van Lines, Americans are on the move.  And Ohio […]
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 […]