If, as the saying goes, “”no news is good news,” last week was almost a good week for U.S. real estate. Henderson real estate watchers like me found no hint of the kind of sweeping changes that can alter residential real estate patterns for buyers and sellers. Possibly because of the looming election, little space [...]
Conscientious Henderson homeowners keep on top of all the regular maintenance items pretty much automatically. Once you have lived in a place for more than a year or two, you know what you should be keeping an eye on. You have a handle on when major fixes and updates have to be addressed. When you [...]
It was a federal agency reversal that was startling in its effect: a change in guidance that actually clarified more than muddled! The change will directly affect Henderson buyers and sellers because the issue will impact the cost of Henderson residential real estate transactions—specifically, in the area of home appraisals. As the first order of [...]
When you go in for your annual physical, you’re hoping for a sunny prognosis. Realtor® magazine isn’t a medical journal, but it does have a feature called “Market Pulse.” It reports on the patient’s vital signs (if you imagine the patient being the nation’s housing market). The state of the national patient can be relevant [...]
Whenever a month’s Henderson real estate activity ends on a Friday, the number-gatherers close up shop knowing there will be a longer than usual lapse until they can be sure of the Henderson real estate activity statistics. That creates a breather for those of us who keep abreast of Texas and Henderson real estate. It’s [...]
When you go house hunting in Henderson, you’re likely to share a lot of the same basic assumptions that most everybody does. Whether you have a lengthy list of hard-and-fast requirements or are in more of a “just seeing what’s out there” mindset, you’re probably assuming that you’ll “know it when you see it.” [...]
If you try to predict what Henderson real estate activity is likely to be based on only our local activity, you soon find what causes statisticians to turn up their noses: the sample size is simply too small to project reliable trends. That’s why serious Henderson observers look to the incoming real estate activity stats [...]
If you are one of Henderson’s real estate investors (or have been interested in how real estate stacks up against other investment classes), the insights of AIG investment honcho Doug Dachille would likely get your attention. Dachille is American International Group’s Chief Investment Officer. That makes him the decision-maker for the insurance giant’s $350,000,000,000 (that’s [...]
The days of boring slideshow type “virtual tours” are disappearing fast. Today’s Henderson listings can include actual virtual walk-through videos, breathtaking aerial drone shots, and sweeping panoramic 360-degree views. Now it appears there can even be the possibility of James Bond-style suspense. That’s right—Double-O Seven himself (almost). I offer an example that’s [...]
Exactly what makes a house “big”? That’s a judgment call, for sure. In Henderson, houses that are 4,000 square feet or larger would certainly be considered “big,” “spacious,” “ample,” “accommodating,” etc. Most families can get along quite nicely with the U.S. average of 2,600—so even Henderson houses with 3,000 square feet can be [...]
One way or another, it’s all connected. Last week ended with what some observers justifiably called a “shocking” development—one that could impact Henderson’s home buyers and sellers measurably—at least in the short run. It came with the release of the employment statistics from the Department of Labor. They weren’t good numbers. But the surprisingly weak [...]
It’s interesting to look into how many ways the universe of food —be it restaurants, markets, cooking, gardening or eating—intersects with the world of real estate. The connections are many and important. That’s true from the moment a future Henderson homeowner begins to look into the current crop of Henderson homes for sale. We commonly [...]