The National Association of Realtor Real Estate Forecast

You may not know, but the housing industry was in a recession from 1st quarter of 2021 until the 1st quarter of 2023.  The number of home sales went down a good bit (due to home inventory shortages and then later ...

In the last month, I have seen the uncertainty in the market make some home buyers more nervous.  Don’t get me wrong, people are still buying homes in the Chattanooga area and home prices are still pretty stable.  1 year ago, a seller had the option to easily ...

Chattanooga homes sales and Chattanooga pending home sales were down in August 2022.  Funny enough, the Chattanooga median sale price was still up 11% despite lower home sale sales.  Housing becoming more expensive due to rising interest rates and low inventory is why home prices are still rising ...

Home mortgage rates lowered on Monday after the Federal Reserve announced that it would raise interest rates last week.  The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates in order to get inflation under control as it was as high as 11.3% in June.  Mortgage broker, Chad Harris ...

The national median sales price of current homes has reached $400,000 for the first time - 15% higher than that a year ago based on the National Association of Realtors reports.

Even if existing home sales are declining nationwide, the housing supply has been slowly increasing, with inventories thatare ...

As a home buyer, you are probably wondering if this is the right time to buy a home. With interest rates rising, some think housing prices may go down.  I personally do not think they will go down much and other experts agree with me, but let's say ...

The Difference that Staging a Home to Sell Makes

I put a home on the market for a good friend of mine and an investor for less than 24 hours before I told her that we could get more money for the home without it looking like a bachelor pad ...

What's Best for You When Selling Your Home? Part 2

In part 1, we looked at presenting, pricing, and marketing your home professionally as being key to getting you multiple offers on your Chattanooga home.  We also looked at the value of having a professional presentation and at ...

What's Best for You When Selling Your Home?

You will have many options today when you think about selling your Chattanooga home.  You can throw it on Zillow using a Zetimate to guide your asking price (that is self-admittedly up to 20% off).  You can sell by ...

Now is the time to sell!
Home sales took a huge spike in June.  Homes pending sale were up by 41.9%! Closed sales were up by 8.7% after people went back to home shopping in May. The number of homes for sale is down by 42%.  ...