real estate news: FIRST SNOW of the Season, What That Means For Bozeman Real Estate
- 11/09/14 11:36 PM
All the winter preparation leads up to this moment—Bozeman’s first snow!
What does this mean to the Gallatin Valley’s real estate market?
Past trends indicate that cold weather has a way to hamper economic growth. Historical patterns do show a correlation to the amount of precipitation and the housing performance in construction starts, construction permits, existing home sales, new home sales, and pending home sales. (LEARN MORE) In Bozeman, residential home sales week by week show a progressive pattern of decreasing sales with consistent spikes in closings the last week of each month.
But there is hope. … (1 comments)
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real estate news: The Top 5 Kinds of Home Buyers from 2013
- 07/10/14 03:59 AM
John Burns, Real Estate Consulting CEO, states in his interview, on Bloomberg TV “Street Smart”, that these are the expected buyers from 2013:
Boomerang Buyers – These are buyers who have gone through a foreclosure and have been waiting and working towards getting their good credit scores back. They may have been among the working that were laid off and lost their homes. They are now probably renting single family homes for more than the cost of a mortgage. Tips For Boomerang Buyers Investors – These buyers were the first to re-enter the market and have been back buying for about 2 … (0 comments)
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real estate news: Inventories are Low and Buyers are Looking for a Home Like Yours
- 06/02/14 06:46 AM
Why Are Inventories Low
Properties are just now reaching the point at which their values are high enough to sell without the home owner owing money after the sale. That trend is blended with the consistent rise in home values and homeowners are watching and waiting for prices to keep going up… up.… and away!
Why Should I Sell Now
Supply/Demand. Buyers are looking at a very limited supply. (Source) This is market specific. To learn more about where listings are flying off the shelf in Bozeman, MT, please call me! 406-209-0022.
Interest Rates. They … (0 comments)
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real estate news: GO LOCAL: National Franchise versus Independent Brokerages
- 05/29/14 01:58 AM
Full disclosure, I am writing this from the inside perspective from a local and highly successful real estate office.
What do national brokerages uniquely offer?
Initial online branding which makes it easy to find their national website. Standard systems, processes and templates for emails, fliers, and postcards.
What do independent brokerages uniquely offer?
Adaptability. Unique SEO (search engine optimization) opportunities to get their local website on top of the national brands. The internet is the great equalizer. Local business with local brand recognition. GO LOCAL! Highly customized marketing solutions for each and every listing.
Bozeman Montana … (3 comments)
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real estate news: Real Estate Agent Teams: The Fastest Growing Model in the Industry
- 02/07/14 09:26 AM
There is a new business dynamic sweeping real estate companies. It is a business model Bozeman Montana Real Estate.net has been embracing for three years now and it has served us well.
Why is a Team is Appealing:
What a transaction entails: oodles of paperwork, countless hours of showing requests needing coordination, inspection meetings, ongoing and persistent and aggressive marketing, client-agent meetings, MLS modifications, phone and internet constant communication... ect.
Perception of an Agent Working on a Team: By entering the team atmosphere, you gain something valuable: money on marketing, a pool of leads, and/or rent-free office space. This comes … (2 comments)
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real estate news: Shifting Demographics: Where Americans Are Moving
- 01/16/14 01:22 AM
Moving In
1.Oregon
2.South Carolina
3.North Carolina
4.District of Columbia
5.South Dakota
6.Nevada
7.Texas
8.Colorado
Moving Out
1.New Jersey
2.Illinois
3.New York
4.West Virginia
5.Connecticut
6.Utah
7.Kentucky
8.Massachusetts
9.New Mexico
Oregon boasts the no. one position as far as the number of people flocking to the state. New Jersey took the claim to shame with the largest no. of people moving away. The 37th Annual Migration Study has tracked company's customers moving in and out of states over the course of the year. (http://www.unitedvanlines.com/united-newsroom/press-releases/2014/documents/2013-migration.pdf )
“Business incentives, industrial growth and relatively lower costs of living are attracting jobs and people to … (0 comments)
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real estate news: Big Sky Real Estate: The Buy Out of Moonlight Basin
- 09/25/13 06:00 AM
The current owners of Big Sky Resort and the Yellowstone Club are looking to expand their empire and buy Moonlight Basin. The result would be the creation of a mega resort of 5,700+ skiable acres, 23 chairlifts, 10 surface lifts totaling to over 4,350 vertical feet.
CrossHarbor Capital Partners are the owners of the Yellowstone Club, Black Bull Run, and Boyne Resorts. Boyne Resorts owns Big Sky and Spanish Peaks resort communities. The purchase agreement for Moonlight between the Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and CrossHarbor Capital Partners is “the next step in the creation of one of the largest and … (0 comments)
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real estate news: Education’s Effect on the Housing Market
- 08/26/13 04:04 AM
Students Living at Home: Children who experience housing instability have always been thought to have direct struggles from the lack of consistency and permanence. Although there is ongoing research being done directly determining the fallacy or truths of that, the current take is a growing body of research suggests that stable, affordable housing may provide children with enhanced opportunities for educational success. Stability matters to children as they are being raised in a home. Home ownership matters because it provides that stability and security for your child/children.
Students Living on their Own: The no. 1 impact going to school has … (1 comments)
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real estate news: The Lost Ones: How Missing Households are Expected to Boost the Market
- 08/02/13 05:14 AM
Similar to Montana versus the rest of the United States, the households ranging in between ages 18-34 have a delayed response to the market as the more periphery age groups feel the certain trends. Prior to the housing bust, 1.1 million households were formed annually. During the economic dip, only about 450,000 households formed each year. This ‘backlog’ of home formations over the three year bust totaled to 2.4 million households that are not currently showing up in the stats but, in theory, they are lingering out there awaiting the proper moment to re-enter the market.
These households are the … (0 comments)
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real estate news: Home Buyer and Home Seller Advice in a Recoverying Real Estate Market
- 07/03/13 02:34 AM
Buyers:
Listings are moving quickly. Too quickly for some sellers in fact. As a non-monetary perk for an offer, there are options like a seller’s residential lease that will allow a home to close quickly as the buyer would like to see, but the seller will not get cold feet from their home selling too quickly and they can have the 60-90 days to plan what their next step is.
Move with certainty. Enter into a deal at your max, no lower and no higher. No lower because although it gives you negotiating power, multiple offers may mean you put … (2 comments)
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real estate news: Winning the Lottery—New Construction Trends
- 05/23/13 05:03 AM
After seeing potential buyers camping out at the opening of new condo complexes in Sunnyvale, CA, O’Brien Homes come to the conclusion that they did not want that trend to continue. Each month, as a new development went under construction, around 50 pre-qualified, down payment-ready buyers would show up at the sales office hoping to nab one of the sites available. O’Brien Homes began to draw numbers similar to Bingo in order to decide who ‘won’ the units. For each available unit, the company drew a winner and a back-up just in case the primary winner fell through.
"Some people … (0 comments)
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real estate news: The Buy/Rent Scale is Tipping
- 04/24/13 05:55 AM
In a new national opinion survey from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation it was found that attitudes are shifting in the ‘is it better to buy or rent’ debate.
“America is going through a transformational period,” says Peter Hart, chairman emeritus of Hart Research, which conducted the survey on behalf of the foundation. “The unexpected is becoming the expected... [and] housing attitudes are indeed part of this new transformational world.”
The full report can be found here: "How Housing Matters: Americans’ Attitudes Transformed By The Housing Crisis & Changing Lifestyles." The highlights are as follows:
72% of … (2 comments)
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real estate news: Moving Past The ‘You Look So Young’ Age Stigma
- 03/05/13 01:20 AM
Generation Y has taught the world a few lessons that are usable in real estate across the spectrum of clients. Having an office full of agents and staff under the age of 45, we are a fast, adaptive office which, even in our technologically drive market, have certainly used the youth of the office to cater to first time home buyers through to retirement home buyers. The methods that appeal to both generations are the same:
Response Time: The texting/email crazed society we now live it reaches up all the way to those who do not practice the technology in … (1 comments)
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real estate news: 2013 Real Estate Mobile Opportunities
- 01/22/13 07:57 AM
Digital strategy building for 2013. There is a massive paradigm shift, that is one of my favorite descriptive analysis words as I am an international relations specialist, within real estate business structure that cannot go unnoticed in 2013. One way to reach out and expand to become a successful mobile marketer is by thinking what it is exactly to be a mobile consumer. Every agent and certainly every client using the mobile transfer of information uniquely but in a patterned and systematic way. Thanks to the useful blog I found at (http://www.inman.com/opinion/guest-perspective/2013/01/15/mobile-opportunities-in-2013-and-beyond), there is an easy way to organize mobile real … (1 comments)
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real estate news: Top Real Estate Blogs Make It Your New Year’s Resolution To Learn MORE
- 12/28/12 03:02 AM
This official list was put together in 2006 and since its creation; the sites have had over 100,000 visitors! Since this original post, only 10 of the original bloggers remain so I thought it would be fun to compile a new database of current, informative, and catchy real estate blogs.
HERE IS THE LIST (Updated) WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Commercial Real Estate Blogs Ashworth Partners Blog A Student of the Real Estate Game Llenrock Blog The Tenant Advisor
Corporate Blogs HomeGain Blog MemphisInvest Blog Zillow Blog
Green Real Estate Michelle Kaufmann
Housing / Economy / Data Calculated Risk Crains … (1 comments)
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real estate news: Credit Unions Increasing Role In Real Estate
- 12/19/12 12:28 AM
Borrowers who are looking to refinance are shifting more and more to credit unions instead of banks. This is a result of many colliding events notably an overall disillusionment of the work, honesty, and values of the big banks.
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“We’d be remiss if we didn’t give a shout-out to the major banks for being annoying to consumers and forcing people to seek out other alternatives,” says Bob Dorsa, the president of the American Credit Union Mortgage Association in Las Vegas.
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Credit Unions are seeing this national trend and working fervently to foster an atmosphere that keeps the customers … (2 comments)
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real estate news: The Down Fall of Real Estate: A Few Theories on What Happened
- 11/16/12 01:42 AM
"What really caused the real estate meltdown? A lot of Republicans blame Bill Clinton, because of the Real Estate Reinvestment Act, which they say made it too easy for certain people to buy houses instead of continuing to live in Mr. Potter's slums. Even Mayor Bloomberg of New York says the Feds did it. Others, like Jeff Rubin, blame the price of oil. Now Christopher Leinberger notes another cause in the New York Times: the collapse of the car-dependent suburban fringe. It is due to a dramatic demographic shift that is causing cities to boom while the suburbs empty.
Many Boomers are now empty … (2 comments)
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real estate news: Real Estate You Can Count On: Bozeman Montana Real Estate.net
- 11/09/12 01:44 AM
Bozeman Montana Real Estate.net provides clients with a caring team of residential professionals. Our business represents buyers and sellers, provides relocation assistance and offers a boutique style of real estate focused on clients. Yesterday we had the opportunity to officially open our new office doors to the community.
This is just the icing on the cake for one heck of a year for Bozeman Montana Real Estate.net. Our broker got married to the love of her life, we bought, designed, and built our new office space, and hired Brandi Ostwald as the newest agent on the team. This ceremony … (0 comments)
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real estate news: Active Gallatin Valley Foreclosures: Week of October 8th, 2012
- 10/09/12 01:02 AM
Active Foreclosures in Bozeman, Belgrade, Manhattan, Dillon Three Forks, & Big Sky!
Week of October 8th, 2012
The following links are for the current FORECLOSED HOMESin the Gallatin Valley. They are usually priced well and most do not stay on the market for long. Take a look, find your favorite, then call to schedule your appointment to see them!
Bozeman Montana Foreclosures
Belgrade Montana Foreclosures
Manhattan Montana Foreclosures
Three Forks Montana Foreclosures
Big Sky Montana Foreclosures
Dillon/Madison County Montana Foreclosures
These links are the SHORT SALE HOMES that are available presently. If you … (2 comments)
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real estate news: Devil in the Details: True Representation of the Housing Market
- 09/27/12 03:39 AM
Housing reports have been flowing in with the great news on how the real estate market is improving. Most recently, NAR’s July report boasted homes sales rising 9.5%, the strongest increase since January 2006.
This good news is reaching too high many analysts are now saying. Reports like NAR’s above paint an unrealistically optimistic picture when the market is more conservatively improving. NAR adjusts for the sizes of home sold, but the price index does not. Because of this, when high end homes sell, the market reports swell disproportionality to the actual market. This in not to say the real … (1 comments)
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All the winter preparation leads up to this moment—Bozeman’s first snow!
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