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There have been lots of confusing reports over the last few days concerning Real Estate and the housing market.
First, we received this positive news, telling us how home sales increased in February.
Then yesterday we found out that home prices declined.
Today the big news is that new home sales, or new construction, saw a decline in […]

This kind of goes without saying, but I will say it anyway. Now is a really, really good time to buy. Interest rates are low. Prices are down. What are you waiting for!
From REALTOR magazine:
Remember this is a place to live not a stock market investment, they say. Lenders want buyers to spend no […]

Here is a good post, from Jeff Carlsbad’s blog for first time buyers, that lays out some good reasons for using a buyer’s agent.
The following is an excerpt.
So why is having an agent working for YOU important?

You want someone who is looking out for your interests as the buyer; asking questions, obtaining information, and making […]

I have already explained in this post, why it is important to hire an agent to represent you on the buying side of the transaction. But I wanted to elaborate a little more, because I just don’t think most people get it.
First off, the service that a buyer’s agent performs is free. It costs you […]

Keep this in mind! Me working as your Official Buyer’s Agent is a FREE SERVICE, protecting your best interest. If you call an agent direct off the sign in the front of the home, you are calling the agent that represents the seller. By contract, they are bound to represent their seller against […]

Kathy Tyson, a fellow Realtor and good friend, and also the Real Estate editor at Music City Bloggers, makes the point that the media often forgets “all real estate is local”.
With today’s real estate market, we hear over and over and over and over and over a lot about how the housing bubble has burst. […]

Here is a great website I found called the Housing Predictor. They are predicting more good news for the Nashville area, which of course, includes Kingston Springs.

In Nashville the housing market boomed for at least three years, one of the longest in the country as newcomers moved to the country music capital. But home sales […]

Mark J. Perry is linking to this Wall Street Journal article and offers the following analysis.
If there’s a bright spot in the housing market, it might be that the “Months supply of homes at the current sales rate” declined in November and December, after increasing for nine consecutive months (see chart above), suggesting an […]

If all of this talk of “fiscal stimulus” and “monetary stimulus” has you a little confused, I reccomend you read this from Jim Voorhies. He breaks things down pretty well.
By the way, of the two schools of thought in economics, I most definitely consider myself to be a monetarist, a fan of Milton Friedman.

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This article is really long, but what it is basically saying is that with low interest rates, there is a resurgence in mortgage lending, but this resurgence will not include everybody. So the question is, who benefits?
The big winners will be conventional borrowers with so-called conforming loans — those eligible for purchase by Fannie Mae […]