A number of “Smart House” products made headway in 2016, so before the crystal ball gets hauled up over Times Square, this is an appropriate moment to review which ones promised relevant real estate applications. Anyone who will be house hunting or selling in Henderson anytime soon might want to become familiar with some of [...]
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 [...]
Most Henderson house flipping veterans can look back on their successful projects and place them in either of two columns. Either they were intended to be quick flips—turnarounds where speed was a prime ingredient because of an original tactical decision—or they were not. The quick flips depend on speedy, focused action in three of the [...]
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 [...]
The headline had to stop everyone who even glanced at Bloomberg’s Technology section: Henderson readers (even those who are relatively gimmick-immune) would have been hard pressed to pass up last Wednesday’s Bloomberg Technology headline: “Can This Real Estate Gimmick Save the World?” Whether the subject of the article really is a gimmick or “the [...]
Much of the financial press has been sounding a recurrent theme for a while: the complaint that the interest rate slump has left growth-oriented investors with few choices other than a Wall Street gamble. Henderson investors may find that some degree of risk is tolerable when you have a lifetime of earning ahead of you, [...]
Why it is that we’re drawn to “Top 10” lists in general is a matter we can leave to the psychologists. Suffice it to say that the lists are a staple on the super market tabloids and they’re all over the web. I admit they get more than their share of my own attention, even [...]
The headlines last week had a familiar look to them, but in terms of what they actually signified for readers who might be potential home buyers or sellers in Henderson, they really should have triggered a snap-to moment: “Mortgage Rates Fall to New 2016 Lows,” was the Star Tribune’s headline. Yahoo Finance echoed that, adding, [...]
There are Top 10 Lists aplenty that detail just why any Henderson homeowner should think twice before planting one of those For Sale by Owner signs in their front yard. One of them is that when you sell your home all by yourself, the sheer amount of time you’ll have to devote to mastering processes [...]
Something is being offered that is actually for free. No, really. It is truly the case that lately some banks and credit card companies have been including a new benefit for their Henderson clients: free access to their current FICO credit score. This isn’t the same thing as the ads we’ve been deluged with for [...]
It’s small wonder that with this spring’s selling season underway, our Henderson’s house hunters can afford to be a discriminating bunch—they have the luxury of picking and choosing from a crop of truly inviting offerings. And it doesn’t hurt that today’s low mortgage interest rates have enabled more Henderson properties to fit within more family [...]
