Attention Sellers, The Buyers Are Here!
Contract activity has been RED HOT so far this year -- with 249 contracts signed in the first 82 days of this year -- as compared to only 178 in the same time frame last…
High End Home Sales Relatively Stable in 2014
Exploring home sales over $500K, we see that home sales levels in 2014 stayed relatively on track with where they were in 2013.... Despite the drop from 20 to 18 sales…
Understanding Buyer Representation
OK, here it comes, a long one, folks....everything (or close to it) you need to know about buyer representation.... THE HOME BUYING PROCESS Purchasing a home can be fun…
New Listings in Harrisonburg (and Rockingham County)
Keep your finger on the pulse of new listings in Harrisonburg (and Rockingham County) by exploring the most recent listings at.... NewListingsInHarrisonburg.com Or…
Two (of four) price ranges are well balanced (between buyers and sellers) in our local housing market.
Six months of housing supply is considered to be an indicator of a balanced housing market. That is to say that if we look at the average number of buyers buying per…
The most quickly recovering price range is....
This might surprise you, but the price range that has seen the most significant year-over-year increase in the pace of home sales is homes priced between $300K and $400K…
March 2015 Monthly Housing Market Report
Learn more about this month's Featured Property: 12108 Rabbits Foot Road I just published my monthly report on the Harrisonburg and Rockingham County real estate market…
JMU Enrollment projected to surpass 20K in 2017
Based on enrollment projections approved by the State Council of High Education for Virginia and published by JMU, on campus enrollment is set to continue to increase in…
Does lingering snow keep housing inventory low?
Have you heard? We might get another 6 inches of snow!?! I have met with a variety of homeowners over the past two weeks who are planning to put their houses on the…
Home Sales Preview: February 2015
Looking back at sales in recent months we find that.... Sales during 4 out of the last 5 months exceeded sales in the same month from the prior year, with January 2015…
Townhouse (duplex, condo) buyers from 2008 may have to wait until 2018 to see their home value return to the original purchase price
Yesterday I ran an analysis on single family home values -- which suggested that home buyers from 2006 may have to wait until 2020 to see their home value return to the…
Home buyers from 2006 may have to wait until 2020 to see their home value return to the original purchase price
OK, my apologies in advance for the slightly depressing nature of this blog post. This is the third in a series of three -- and I'm only going here because someone…