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Top 5 Reasons to Buy a Home In Nashville Now!

The American dream of home ownership is what drives the spirit of this country.  This dream has turned into skepticism due to the recent uncertainty of the housing market.  We all know the market moves in cycles, and these five developments are the top reasons why potential buyers need to act now. 1.    Home affordability [...] Read more »

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Nashville Foreclosures Continue to Decline

Core Logic, a leading provider of housing data, shows the overall foreclosure activity is down in Nashville, TN and many other cities.  Nationally, the percentage of homeowners who are at least 90 day delinquent has dropped from 7.8% in February 2011 to 7.3% currently.   Out of the top 100 metro areas studied, 61 of them were showing decreases [...] Read more »

Nashville Largely Unaffected By FHA Loan Limit Raises

Late last week Congress approved a change to loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).  Included in a spending bill passed by both houses was a provision to raise loan limits to $729,750.  The provision reinstated the limit through 2013 at 125% of local median home prices to a maximum of $729,750.  The previous limit for [...] Read more »

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Do You Have The Heart of a Teacher?

One of my favorite talk radio hosts, Dave Ramsey, tells his listeners that they need to work with sales people who have the heart of a teacher.  This is great advice from a very successful business person.  So I took this question to heart, do I have the heart of a teacher?  Before I could answer that question, [...] Read more »

Real Estate Prices Stabilize & Sales Volume Continues To Decline

The National Association of Realtors is reporting that existing home sales in June eased due to contract cancellations while prices continued to stabilize.  The strongest areas of the country are the South and the Midwest.  Total existing home sales declined 0.8% for the month and were down 8.8% over last year.  June 2010 was also [...] Read more »

Nashville Real Estate Continues To Reflect Economic Challenges

Real estate trends in Nashville continue to reflect the economic challenges that we face nationally.  The Greater Nashville Association of Realtors is reporting that 2,031 homes were sold in June 2011.  This is 16% down from June 2010 (2416 sales) and we are more than 12% down year to date.  Although we are down, we [...] Read more »

Nashville Home Sales Remain Flat in May

According to the Greater Nashville Association of Realtors, there were 1,945 home closings reported for the month of May.  This represents a 14.3 percent decrease from the 2,270 closings reported for May 2010. Year-to-date closings are 7,600. That total is down 11.7 percent from the 8,607 closings reported through the same period last year. “In [...] Read more »

Nashville Real Estate Continues Decline In April

 There were 1,747 home closings reported for the month of April, according to figures provided by the Greater Nashville Association of REALTORS®.  This represents a decrease of 18.5 percent from the 2,145 closings reported for April 2010. Year-to-date closings are also down compared to 2010 with 5,655. That is an almost 10.5 percent decrease compared [...] Read more »

Nashville Home Sales Decline 10% In March

There were 1,673 home closings reported for the month of March 2011, according to figures provided by the Greater Nashville Association of REALTORS®. This figure represents a 9.6 percent decrease compared with 1,851 closings in March of 2010. Numbers for the first quarter of 2011 were 3,908 closings, down 6.8 percent from the 4,192 closings [...] Read more »