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Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market With the supply of homes down in Johnson County Kansas, now is a great time to be selling a home. We have heard from sellers planning to wait a month or longer to put their home on the market and we’ve explained it would be [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market Buyers of every type have been coming out of the woodwork for much of the past year and it’s resulted in the Johnson County Kansas area having a low volume of inventory not seen in many years. This means most home sellers are sitting in [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market The stats below have been sitting on my desk for some time now and I just got around to looking them over. It was eye-opening and something I wanted to share it here. The stats compare recent prices to prices from about 20 years ago. [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market Probably 1/10 of buyers who contact us to start a home search want to first explore bank-owned foreclosure listings. This can be a great idea for home buyers who are willing to make repairs and work to create quick equity in their real estate investments. [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market If someone had asked me to guess what percent of homeowners have their home paid off, I’d probably have tossed out somewhere in the 15% range. So I was surprised to see a Zillow report that indicates 29% of homeowners in the U.S. have their [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market 2012 was a much improved year for the Kansas City real estate market. Even through the slower fall months, supply, demand and housing prices remained steady and the housing market continued its rebound. The months of inventory on the market in most local areas was [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market The volume of Short Sales continues to rise as under-water homeowners and the lender’s who hold the loans understand the benefits of avoiding foreclosure. In almost all situations, a lender does not want a foreclosure on the books as it causes many direct and indirect [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market If you know anyone who’s struggling to make their mortgage payments, they’re surely pondering the options for selling their home. If they don’t have the money to pay the real estate commission or are upside down even more than that amount on their home, then [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market If your credit score is over a 800, you’ll be in the drivers when getting Pre-Approved to purchase a home in Kansas City, Johnson County Kansas or the surrounding area. The mythical perfect credit score is 850 but in reality, even if you could obtain [...]

Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market It’s estimated that 30% of mortgage loans on home purchases today – 50% in some real estate markets – are FHA loans. That’s incredible when you think that just 5 years ago FHA backed about 5% of home loans. FHA loans have become such a [...]