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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
First, a word about these Things to Avoid when you’re in the process of buying a Henderson house: it’s a short list. The reason it’s so short is because of who you are—since you’re reading this, it means you’re someone who is taking the time to delve into what’s happening with Henderson real estate. That [...]
Marketers for any Henderson business want to know as much as possible about their “customer base”—the population of potential buyers who might be attracted to their product. If you are in the process of selling your Henderson home, the speed at which you succeed and the amount of profit that results will greatly depend on [...]
“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) [...]
Like careful consumers who are investigating any major purchase, Henderson home buyers need to address some of the same basic queries. Among home buyers, those who already own Henderson homes may think they have different questions than do first-timers, but even for those who have successfully navigated the process before, if it’s been a while [...]
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 [...]
