During the Summer of 2022, the federal reserve hiked mortgage interest rates in an attempt to curb inflation. And it worked, mostly. Mortgage rates shot up into the 9s in June, essentially tripling what they had been during 2021. This effectively stalled the housing market all throughout the fall an

If you haven’t read it then you’ve certainly at least heard of the book ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ by Stephen Covey. Turns out, you can apply 7 healthy habits to almost any aspect of your life, including real estate transactions. That’s exactly what our friends at Realtor.com did. The

Trying to explain buying and selling real estate in the United States over the last three years is like trying to pick an idiom for explaining impossibility. It’s, just, like… really hard. Numbers went gangbusters and haven’t quite leveled out. Some areas, like interest rates, keep growing. While ot