Howe Real Estate Should Be

The Montgomery County Council has done it again. It has legislated additional  radon testing requirements - this time for landlords. In 2015, Montgomery County implemented a new requirement that all sellers must perform a radon test prior to settlement on all single family properties being sold o...

Thanksgiving and Christmas are just around the corner - so does that mean that you should tell your clients not to think about selling their homes? Your clients likely making plans and thinking about what they want to achieve before the year ends. One of those key decision points could be whether...

The latest news about the housing market has some potential sellers considering whether this is the year to list their homes.  Perspective is always key - but particularly this year when the information seems so conflicting.While the supply of homes available for sale has increased this year comp...

I wrote this morning about this past weekend when I went to Boston to help my daughter find the perfect wedding dress.   After a brief expression of general anxiety Friday morning by my daughter that I might be late getting there and miss her finding the perfect dress, we got to Boston on time - ...

This weekend I went to Boston to wedding dress shop with my daughter.  The wedding is November 4, 2023, in Miami so it is time to find a dress!  Full disclosure, we set a price that was reasonable - but on the low side if you watch "Say Yes to the Dress."  We set off to shop - with Lise Courtney ...

This year has not been kind to buyers.  First it was hard to win a house because there were so many multiple offer situations where you had to compete with lots of other equally motivated buyers.  Now the inventory levels are improving and there are more homes to choose from.  You can actually ge...

There is a lot of uncertainty right now for home buyers.  Many of them have been shut out of the housing market for the last three years with limited inventory and multiple offer situations, all leading to rapidly increasing home prices.  Now, it is interest rates heading past 7% that have stomac...

The National Park Service will be holding the 100th annual Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony on November 30 this year, and the free-ticket lottery opened at 10 a.m. on October 25, 2022.   If you’ re interested, you have until November 1 to enter the lottery. Winners will be notified November 8.The...

Here are the highlights from Bright MLS for the week ending October 23, 2022: The cooldown in the market is accelerating. During the week ending October 23, closed sales in the Bright footprint were down 30.9% from a year ago. The number of new purchase contracts was 36.2% lower than last year at...

Dorie Dillard Austin TX wrote this blog post in July.   The times have only gotten more transformational since then.  How are you going to respond to the market shift? Are you going to lean into it, run away, retire, or hide your head in the sand? Dorie asks great questions - that are even more t...