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Read what our three expert Santa Fe Real Estate Consultants think about the dynamic and exciting real estate market of Santa Fe and northern New Mexico.
What is an Absorption Rate?
Hits: 13A little housekeeping; and explanation and definition of a statistic I throw around freely – Absorption Rate. Every month I post four spreadsheets that show a direct comparison between the number of homes for sale and the number that have been sold in the last 12 months. This illustrates the length
Continue reading→Tracking trend lines and decoder rings
Hits: 10What ever gave you the idea that you could turn to one source for all the answers about what is going on in real estate today? If you read several newsletters every week and everything in the primary news outlets plus watch some pundits on TV, you might be
Continue reading→Despite the gloom…
Hits: 11…there exist countless facts and feelings that set Santa Fe apart from the rest. We have no equal in the full equation of choices among cities in the Southwestern US, and yet we struggle to balance living and working here;
Continue reading→Free Lunch and other things that don’t exist
Hits: 11You and I are similar in that we might sit up and pay attention if we heard “Free Lunch” or saw those words on a sign. But we are also selective
Continue reading→There is talking that is here and there is talking to be heard…
Hits: 12Striving to separate the hard news from the search engine news (Charlie Sheen ad nauseum), what is popular to say or to hear is not always the most relevant news
Continue reading→Keeping up with the Joneses
Hits: 15Is it fair to say that people are not as concerned with keeping up with their neighbors as they used to be? Maybe because the Jones family (to use the name from the popular phrase…) owes more against their home than they could sell
Continue reading→Do you need a job to buy a house?
Hits: 22Back in the day, the answer was clearly no, you did not actually need a job to buy a house. At least that’s what we
Continue reading→Give them a reason…
Hits: 11Are you easily influenced by someone telling you what to do (Vote for this candidate! Buy this house! Shop at Central! Eat at Joes!)? Probably not… at least I hope not. How effective
Continue reading→Thank you for visiting!
Hits: 27WordPress (my blog/website big brother) has informed me that during the last 3+ months, since I kicked off this new blog in October 2010, the site has had over 2,400 visitors. Way to go folks! Take a bow! With results like
Continue reading→What will 2011 bring?
Hits: 40Admittedly 2010 was a tough year, with new waves of problems coming at us from all sides. Most people I talk with say they will be glad when this year is over. And yet is was a tremendous learning
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