The summer months should be quite busy for home buyers, sellers and real estate agents alike! As we head into June, real estate analysts are saying that the national housing market is poised for a successful (and busy!) summer home buying market. Several factors are at play, experts say, including low housing inventory, pent up […]
Walter Whitehurst What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – June 1, 2015 Last week’s economic reports included the Case-Shiller Home Price Indexes, FHFA’s House Price Index and Pending Home Sales from the Commerce Department. The details: Home Prices Dip in March, Pending Home Sales Up According to the Case-Shiller 20-City Housing Market Index, the […]
What Do Smart Sellers Look For? When selling your home, you want results, you want flexibility, you want feedback, and you want to keep your costs low. That’s why I designed our Smart Seller Program with the following Four Smart Seller Guarantees: Communication Guarantee – When selling your home, we understand that no one wants to […]
Walter Whitehurst Concrete Countertops: Learn Why Concrete May Be the Best Thing to Hit Your Kitchen Updating your kitchen may be a project that you have been looking forward to for a long time. Now that the time has come to get started working on your project, you may be exploring the different materials that […]
Walter Whitehurst Received an Offer for Your Home? How to Respond with a Counter-offer Asking for a Higher Price Getting an offer on your house is the first step in getting it sold, but buyers often feel that they have to come in lower than your asking price. After all, everyone wants the deal to […]
Walter Whitehurst Case-Shiller Home Prices: San Francisco, Denver see Double-Digit Increases San Francisco, California where home prices rose 10.30 percent year over year in March, and Denver, Colorado with an even 10 percent gain in year-over-year home prices led the Case-Shiller 20-City Composite Index for March. Rounding out the top-five cities for year-over-year home price […]
Walter Whitehurst What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – May 26, 2015 Last week’s economic reports included several readings related to housing The Wells Fargo/National Association of Home Builders Housing Market Index, the Commerce Department’s releases on Housing Starts and Building Permits, and the National Association of Realtors® report on Existing Home Sales supplied […]
Walter Whitehurst Four Handy Tips for Managing Your Lawn After the Spring Rains Have Arrived In many areas, the spring months mean warmer temperatures, more sunshine and plenty of beneficial rainfall that your yard may thrive with. These are prime growing conditions for your lawn, but they can also make lawn maintenance a challenge. By […]
Walter Whitehurst Real Estate Investing: Why Buying Raw Land Can Be an Excellent Long-term Strategy When many people think about investing in property, they think about purchasing income-producing real estate such as a residential property or an office building with tenants. There are indeed many benefits associated with investing in income-producing property. For example, these […]
Walter Whitehurst Buying a Classic Older Home? Three Upgrades You’ll Need to Make Immediately While some home buyers only want to live in a brand new home and will custom build a home to their specifications, others are drawn to the historic character and charm of a classic home. Older homes may have incredible architectural […]
