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 [...]
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.” [...]
“Time is of the essence!” is the kind of everyday phrase you might hear any time in Henderson. Most often it’s tossed off casually—as when someone gets impatient, waiting for a friend who’s been dillydallying. That’s when it means “we’re gonna be late!” In Texas legal contract phraseology, it has a more precise (and serious) [...]
When last week’s surprising news (on the plus side) about consumer confidence was announced, it was one more sign Henderson homeowners might have felt nudging them in the direction of putting their home on the market. U.S. confidence rose to an 11-month high in August—a turnaround from consumer blahs that had ruled during the first [...]
When the name “Deloitte” is attached to futuristic predictions about any kind of industrial matters, most Henderson readers grow less skeptical than would otherwise be the case. After all, Deloitte’s quarter-million financial services professionals earn their keep by accurately advising enterprises worldwide on which way the commercial wind is going to be blowing five, ten, [...]
The “5-Year Rule” as it applies to Henderson homes listed for sale is a pretty good one, as far as real estate rules-of-thumb go. It’s part of the family of truisms that have been around long enough that you’d figure they have to be reliable—like the rule that you should plan on maintenance costing 1% [...]
If you keep track of the ebb and flow of U.S. economic news, you might also be aware of how it relates to some things that happen here. Particularly in the way Henderson’s mortgage rates have been responding to the ups and downs of announcements from Washington, the cause and effect relationship has settled into [...]
“Homeownership is the bedrock of the American Dream!” was long an unchallenged byword in American culture. Certainly most Henderson homeowners agreed during most of the 20th Century. That premise may have been rocked a little during the early phases of the Great Recession that shook the country starting in 2008, but as the housing recovery [...]
Sometimes the experts who project trends in residential housing and real estate find that they have to correct their predictions. Once the final statistics are in, if they consistently reveal errors as wide of the mark as 50%, it’s just embarrassing. Such was recently the case with Harvard’s LIRA remodeling project—and for those of us [...]
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 [...]