What’s Really Happening with Home Prices?

Some Highlights

• If you’re thinking about selling your house, recent headlines about home prices falling month-over-month may have you second guessing your decision—but perspective matters.
• While home prices are down slightly month-over-month in some markets, home values are still
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?Weekly Update?

Are we in a housing bubble? Let me clear the air..?

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Pre-Approval in 2023: What You Need To Know

One of the first steps in your homebuying journey is getting pre-approved. To understand why it’s such an important step, you need to understand what pre-approval is and what it does for you. Business Insider explains:

“In a preapproval [sic], the lender tells you which types of loans you may be eligible to take out, how much you may be approved to borrow, and what your rate could

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The Truth About Negative Home Equity Headlines

Home equity has been a hot topic in real estate news lately. And if you’ve been following along, you may have heard there’s a growing number of homeowners with negative equity. But don’t let those headlines scare you.

In truth, the headlines don’t give you all the [...]

What Experts Are Saying About the 2023 Housing Market

If you’re thinking about buying or selling a home soon, you probably want to know what you can expect from the housing market this year. In 2022, the market underwent a major shift as economic uncertainty and higher mortgage rates reduced buyer demand, slowed the pace of [...]

Today’s Housing Market Is Nothing Like 15 Years Ago

There’s no doubt today’s housing market is very different than the frenzied one from the past couple of years. In the second half of 2022, there was a dramatic shift in real estate, and it caused many people to make comparisons to the 2008 housing crisis. While there may [...]

LAKEWOOD RANCH RANKS NO. 1 IN THE NATION FOR FIFTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR

Lakewood Ranch was recognized as the best-selling, master-planned multi-generational community in the country for the fifth year in a row by RCLCO and John Burns, two independent real estate consulting [...]

Lakewood Ranch has a lot of new things coming before this Summer!

The new amenity will be a SPLASH PAD in Waterside Park.

The new Villages/Neighborhoods/Builders are all in Waterside and we will be making a blog about them next week, so stay tuned!

Rentals - two new rental communities will be opening in Waterside Place, TBD. The Row just opened there and is available for [...]

?Just Sold?

I am so happy for our Sellers that we were about to sell their home that has so much character! This idyllic sanctuary on 2.5 acres is going to be an amazing project for our [...]