• Why Buying or Selling a Home Helps the Economy and Your Community,Bent Danholm

    Why Buying or Selling a Home Helps the Economy and Your Community

    If you're thinking about buying or selling a house, it's important to know that it doesn't just affect your life, but also your community.The National Association of Realtors (NAR) releases a report every year to show how much economic activity is generated by home sales. The chart below illustrates

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  • Are Home Prices Going Up or Down? That Depends…,Bent Danholm

    Are Home Prices Going Up or Down? That Depends…

    Media coverage about what’s happening with home prices can be confusing. A large part of that is due to the type of data being used and what they’re choosing to draw attention to. For home prices, there are two different methods used to compare home prices over different time periods: year-over-year

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  • Why You Can’t Compare Now to the ‘Unicorn’ Years of the Housing Market ,Bent Danholm

    Why You Can’t Compare Now to the ‘Unicorn’ Years of the Housing Market

    Some HighlightsComparing housing market metrics from one year to another can be challenging in a normal housing market – and the last few years have been anything but normal. In a way, they were ‘unicorn’ years.Expect unsettling housing market headlines this year, mostly due to unfair comparisons wi

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