If buying or selling a home is part of your dreams for 2023, it’s essential for you to understand today’s housing market, define your goals, and work with industry experts to bring your homeownership vision for the new year into focus.

It’s important to be mindful of what’s a necessity and what’s a nice-to-have when searching for a home. And the best way to understand this is to put together a list of desired features for your home search.

When you think about affordability, remember the full picture includes more than just mortgage rates. Let’s also look at home prices and wages a little more closely.

As people realize their needs are changing, some are turning to luxury housing to find their dream home.

If you’re looking to buy a home, you probably want to secure the lowest interest rate possible for your home loan.

If you’re following today’s housing market, you know two of the top issues consumers face are inflation and mortgage rates. Let’s take a look at each one.

In a market that’s shifting as fast as it is today, many homeowners wonder what, if anything, needs to be renovated before they sell their house.

Here’s a look at historical data to show what happened in real estate during previous recessions to help prove why you shouldn’t be afraid of what a recession would mean for the housing market today.

If you tried to buy a home during the pandemic, you know the limited supply of homes for sale was a considerable challenge. It created intense bidding wars which drove home prices up as buyers competed with one another to be the winning offer.

Is it still a good time to buy a home? Should I make a move this year? To help answer those questions, let’s turn to the experts for projections on what the second half of the year holds for residential real estate.

If you’re a buyer or seller in today’s market, you probably want to know what’s going to happen with home prices moving forward. Will they continue that same growth path or will home prices fall?

From countertops to flooring to colors and beyond, see what styles are hot this year in kitchen design.

You may have heard that it’s important to get pre-approved for a mortgage at the beginning of the homebuying process, but what does that really mean, and why is it so important?

Last week, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate from Freddie Mac jumped from 3.22% to 3.45%. That’s the highest point it’s been in almost two years.

Whether you are considering selling your home and moving into a new space, or determining which project would be the most bang for your buck if made some improvements on the house you are living in, here is an overview of typical project additions to home and how these might impact the value of your home and the return on investment.

Whether you’re celebrating the changing of the season, or simply getting the home ready for the holidays, here are a few tips to generate some inspiration to get that curb appeal on point and ready to rock for the last few months of the year.

Considering selling a home in California? What are the sales or capital gain tax implications?

In this blog post, we explore to understand how capital gains and sales taxes impact the sale of real estate property in California. If you have that situation on your horizon, some strategies and categories are also described on how to avoid or reduce the taxes on a home sale.