Hits: 182017 saw a modest increase in residential lot sales in Santa Fe city and county reporting to the MLS database for the Santa Fe Assoc of Realtors. 2016 showed a total of 194 sales while 2015 showed 175. This is “modest” since we are still light years behind the volume of sales we experienced […]
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How do you rate? and some News
Hits: 22Interest rates are published at least daily on many websites. Mortgage interest rates are a major factor – likely the most important variable – in a home buyer’s choice of loan programs and lending sources. A real estate professional like me should have a good working knowledge of mortgage products and a mortgage calculator or device […]
Continue readingHey, what happened to summer?
Hits: 23Cold, windy and rainy… a good day for hot soup! This early fall season, we are not yet used to cooler
Continue readingElection results: home ownership issues
Hits: 12SO SO close, the experts say. Too close to call? In eight days, voters in America will decide who should be their Commander-in-Chief for the next
Continue reading33 years ago today…
Hits: 20It is rare to have an entire day pass, for the awake and fully engaged sales professional, without hearing about how tight mortgage lending standards are these days. In most casual polls, lenders today appear to be
Continue readingHousing outlook, with little assistance
Hits: 22It seems as if there will be little or no outside help with the national housing crisis, at least coming from our government. That has been clear for some time now, but even the most recent plan
Continue readingSolutions? Macro
Hits: 15After reading a recent whitepaper about the current economic situation we are in and the author’s proposals for moving forward in ways that provide some solutions, the primary message is that we have tremendous problems to solve nationally. I am talking about housing and real estate, and yes there are certainly many other areas […]
Continue readingCaution to the wind
Hits: 14Some of the best minds of my generation have apparently forgotten how they learned to accept and adjust to all of the change we have experienced during our lives. I am probably one of them, too. What exactly are we thinking, allowing things to fall so far? A long list of examples is available […]
Continue readingTough Love and other medicines; part two
Hits: 9Everyone is saying it; now is the time to buy. Stocks are cheap! Now might be the time to buy stock, yet few are buying stocks and equities. Home prices are amazingly low
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