It looked like another chuckle-worthy April Fool’s Day dispatch: CNBC’s webcast “Is NYC luxury real estate about to go bust?” It was barely 7 in the morning on April 1—but only the most bleary-eyed Henderson web watchers were likely to have been caught off-guard. Pranksters had already made mincemeat of the credibility Friday news dispatches [...]
A couple of recent developments made the news recently that promised to impact our Henderson’s real estate scene either now or in the future. The one that got most of the attention last Wednesday came from a familiar source: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. Her news conference’s less-than-stirring pronouncement (“Caution is appropriate”) made headlines nonetheless [...]
This spring’s Henderson housing market continues to reflect most of the trends that have held sway in much of the nation. There is good news, not-so-good news, and (happy to report) no really bad news at all. In fact, it’s the absence of threatening factors that make our housing market a welcoming one for those [...]
Any way you cut it, real estate makes up a huge chunk of the overall economy. One consequence of that is that the health of the real estate industry is constantly being put under a microscope (if it were a human patient, it would probably grow alarmed by all the doctors and specialists constantly calling [...]
“The Jumbo Jungle” may sound a little like the elephant compound in a wild animal park, but it’s actually a seldom-quoted tab under The Wall Street Journal’s online Real Estate section. The “jumbos” being discussed are the trunkless kind—the hefty mortgage loans whose center rings are found in binders instead of circus tents. Judging from [...]
Especially this time of year—and even more especially when our Henderson’s weather turns grisly—common sense would seem to lead any homeowner planning to sell their Henderson home this year to hold off for the moment…at least, until Punxsutawney Phil’s forecast starts to come true (the venerable groundhog said that winter 2016 will be a short [...]