Richard Halpern's (richard) Blog

You would think that in a slower market Real Estate Agents would become more aggressive. As the Regional Manager for  BRIO Realty in Maryland, a Real Estate Company that provides FREE LEADS to all of our AGENTS. That they are  taking advantage of the increase of the LEADS in a BIG way. But, I fin...

Baltimore City has hired a Washington, DC Law Firm to sue Wells Fargo Mortgage because it says that Wells Fargo gave sub-prime mortgages and too many fixed rate mortgages, at a high interest rates, to a large number of Minority home buyers that live in Baltimore City. Although a lot of these home...

The news yesterday is that the FEDS are going to cut short term interest rates again at their next meeting. Gee, they are also flooding the market with newly printed DOLLARS causing the value of the dollar to fall. Oil and Gold are relatively the same price in comparison to today's dollar as the...

Its interesting nature doesn't like a vacuum apparently the supply and demand theory doesn't like them either. There are so many mortgage companies both retail and wholesale going out of business that there is now a number of new startup companies moving in to take their places. Hopefully the new...

Maryland, The Stupid State. We have a new Democratic Governor, in an almost all one party State, that thinks by calling a special session of the State houses of Congress and forcing through higher taxes and raising fees on anything and everything in sight, without Public Hearings, because of an ...

I have been pondering all of the Doom and Gloom forecasts concerning Real Estate the Media has been publishing. Looking at the Real Estate Market from my perspective I am seeing the third cycle of the Real Estate market adjustment since I became a Real Estate Agent/Broker. Today’s market present...