Most people buy homes for their family. But if you're driving an hour each way to work, that's 10 hours a week. How much time are you really spending with your family?
Condos will increasingly make more sense in an era of higher home prices, sprawl, higher energy prices and congested freeways.
One month does not make a trend. The pace has been so strong the last couple of years that they've outstripped physical production and worn out physical resources. There may be a desire to extend the market by constraining it now.
If you have a fence and an alarm, that's not enough. You need to supervise your children.
If you are trying to buy a home, you have to be careful about what you are doing.
It's a popular area. People who bought their homes at a good price have little incentive to move on.
Most of the investors are gone, and traffic is down in home builders' sales trailers. Just look at all the ads. Builders are trying to move homes fast.
The hype is off the housing market. Prices are high. Interest rates are climbing. Housing needs to cool down so the market can return to normalcy.
People went for more affordable concepts of home ownership.
There has been a lot of interest in this auction.
