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Is the spring housing market about to rebound?

Housing Wire

While it’s not as clear how long-lasting the rebound will be, it does still provide some much-needed good news for the spring and summer housing market. This article is part of our ongoing 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. After this series wraps, join us on May 30 for the next Housing Market Update Event.

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How to price homes properly in a volatile housing market

Housing Wire

“As a seller if something is sitting out there a couple weeks and it’s not selling, the price is too high,” said Kearney, who has been investing through multiple real estate cycles and believes housing will not be rebounding substantially in the near term. There’s no good news around the corner.

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Robert Toll, co-founder of Toll Brothers, dies at 81

Housing Wire

30, 1940, in the Elkins Park suburb of Philadelphia, Toll was known for keeping a pitchfork in the corner of his office, intended to remind people to be careful when buying land, Toll Brothers acting chairman and CEO Doug Yearley told Commercial Observer. Those houses today sell for a million dollars,” Bruce Toll said.

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Opinion: If change was easy, everyone would do it

Housing Wire

Many brokers and agents expected the summer housing market to help save the year. But for a lot of local markets, that summer sun didn’t shine so brightly. A toxic person will spread their negative attitude to all corners of the company. Keeping toxic employees is a great example of this.

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Do We Need a Neighborhood Section?

Appraisal Buzz

So obviously, if you are appraising a house, or a corner office, you need to delete to pick comps. Most of all, you need to get rid of those not-similar houses. (Or Or the non-corner short office buildings.). Evidence-Based Valuation: The ideal data set is the Competitive Market Segment (CMS)©.

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August Newsletter-Slowing Down

DW Slater Company

As summer begins to wind down and we enjoy those few days of sun and beach, fall is just around the corner. That said, the housing market is still very strong in North Texas. The frenzied markets have let off the gas pedal a bit, but have not yet put on the brakes.

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What the surge in COVID cases means for the housing market this winter

Housing Wire

With COVID infection rates exploding and hospitalization rates rising as we go into the cold winter months, the risk this poses to our recovering housing market is a question that should be addressed. Four weeks into the decline, the market stabilized, and the rate of decline stopped, then began to recover over the next five weeks.