The State of Maryland Housing 2024 report is from a survey run by the National Association of REALTORS(R) and the local Maryland REALTORS(R) branch. The interviews were run from January 9-16, 2024. Key findings from the State of Maryland Housing 2024 report: 82% of those surveyed feel that the cost to buy a house or [...]
The 2023 Mid-Atlantic housing market review from Bright MLS covers six states and the District of Columbia. It covers a little more than the "official" Mid-Atlantic area, going North to New Jersey and West to West Virginia. Here are the areas covered in the report: District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and [...]
The State of Maryland Housing 2023 report is from a survey run by the National Association of REALTORS(R) and the local Maryland REALTORS(R) branch. The interviews were run from January 3-9, 2023. Key findings from the report: 3 out of 4 of those surveyed feel that the cost to buy a house or rent an [...]
The 2022 Mid-Atlantic housing market review from Bright MLS covers six states and the District of Columbia. It covers a little more than the "official" Mid-Atlantic area, going North to New Jersey and West to West Virginia. Here are the areas covered in the report: District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and [...]
Home Buyer optimism for 2023 is still high after a very busy and competitive 2022. According to an article by NerdWallet, 1 in 9 of those surveyed plan to buy a house in the next 12 months. That would be 28 million homebuyers when applying to the whole country. Meanwhile, last year, only 6 million [...]
Home Buyer optimism for 2022 is still high after a very busy and competitive 2021. According to an article by NerdWallet, 1 in 10 of those surveyed plan to buy a house in the next 12 months. Note: This poll was conducted in December 2021. Key points found in their survey: 34% of those surveyed [...]
Home Buyer optimism for 2021 is high after an interesting 2020. According to an article by NerdWallet, 11% of the 2,000 people polled for their Home Buyer Report said they plan to buy a home in 2021. Note: This poll was conducted in December 2020. Key points found in their survey: COVID-19 caused 39% of [...]
Six things homebuyers should not do once approved for a mortgage. I have a long discussion about the mortgage process with homebuyers when we meet. I warn them that it can be a very invasive process, since it can be! It can also, many times, to us, not make sense. Things we might do daily, [...]