buyers market: No Better Time To Buy Than The Present in Rhode Island - 05/21/08 11:29 AM
Real Estate Prices have come down in the past two years, and mortgage rates have first risen, then declined. How does this effect the real estate market in Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts?
Now is perhaps the best time to buy real estate in the last 6 to 8 years, (0 comments)
buyers market: Rhode Island Buyer Agents Doing Well - 02/11/08 04:20 PM
Despite the news media's ravings about how sluggish the real estate market is across the country, our firm is doing quite well servicing our home buyer clients through out Rhode Island. In fact, one of our agents, our leading buyer agent, has already closed $1.2 million in sales year to date, (5 comments)
buyers market: Why use a buyers agent?!?!?!? - 08/14/07 02:27 PM
In this market, a buyer's agent is a very useful thing to have on your side... Why?Many buyer's agents are extremely knowledgeable about mortgages, and can assist you in financing services, as well as with real estate. Understanding the financing of a home in today's mortgage market is about the most (2 comments)
buyers market: Hot time, Summer in the City... - 07/03/07 01:27 PM
It appears the home buyers are active, and so are the investors, at least in our markets of Rhode Island & Southeastern Massachusetts. For every 5 houses shown by our buyers agents, at least 1 is bank owned! While purchasing a bank owned property can be tedious, some of the deals (0 comments)
buyers market: Mortgages, Schmorgatges... Warning Will Robinson! - 02/05/07 03:49 PM
There is some interesting activity on the part of lenders these days, making it harder for people to get conforming loans that could have been had relatively easily 2 years ago. This, combined with the new restrictions on sub-prime loans due to regulations effective as of January, have made loans all (7 comments)
buyers market: Southern New England Buyers Market 2007... an opportunity! - 01/02/07 11:24 AM
Happy New Year everyone...We want to welcome all Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts home buyers to the best opportunity in many years: a buyers market with still low interest rates! We believe that this year will prove one of the best in many to buy real estate in New England. Why? (1 comments)
buyers market: What buyers know and sellers dont - 12/13/06 12:09 PM
We are now in a Buyers Market. At least in Rhode Island & Southeastern Massachusetts. Yet, for some reason, Realtors are failing to educate their sellers about this fact. This failure, or the seller's refusal to acknowledge that their properties may not be worth what they were this time last year, (9 comments)
buyers market: New York Times article, What Statistics on Home Sales Aren’t Saying - 12/06/06 12:16 PM
In todays NY Times, an article by DAVID LEONHARDT argues that statistics from the Federal government, and from NAR, are a bit too rosey about housing prices... As many Active Rain members have been discussing, we are now in a buyers market... but there is more...We have seen many homeowners without ANY (3 comments)
buyers market: Buyers Market Bah Humbug - 12/03/06 11:31 AM
We are seeing buyers coming in with extreme offers sometimes 30% below an already reduced asking price, and then insisting on ridiculous concessions to boot... Some seriously self deceived folks, two of whom have been very upset with their agent, one attempting to side step their own buyers agent, complaining to (3 comments)