Archives for August 2009

Finance the Purchase AND Renovation of Your Next Home

In today’s lending climate, it’s tougher and tougher to find ways to borrow the money for renovation of a home, but contrary to popular belief, the programs are still out there. The FHA 203(k) program is one such option. For more information on how you can buy and renovate a house, just get in touch […]

Trade Your $8K Tax Credit for Lower Interest Rate?

The Party’s Almost Over! I’ve been telling would-be home buyers for several weeks that if they want to take advantage of the home buyer tax credit, NOW is the time to pull the trigger, or they’re in danger of missing the November 30th closing deadline. As a result of this looming deadline, we’re seeing a […]

OKC – One of The Strongest U.S. Housing Markets

According to a recent article published by Business Week, Oklahoma City and Tulsa are tops when it comes to housing market strength; of course, we already knew that 🙂 OKC, comes in at #10 of the Top 30 with a positive annual change in home values of 4.94% and a quarterly increase of 1.85%

Is Your Equity Being Stolen via Legislation?

Ask anyone what home values across the country are doing and you’ll get mixed responses, based solely on what locale each person is familiar with. Seems pretty obvious, right? Truth is, it’s obvious to everyone except those enforcing broad-sweeping change to appraisal guidelines (HVCC), and Richard Mize has pointed out – in grand fashion – […]

Oklahoma City Redefining Recession

Many Oklahomans (or Okies) may think to themselves ‘What Recession?’ when they watch the nightly news, and that sentiment is being noticed more every day as the national press continues to report how strong our local economy is here in the Sooner State. Only a couple of weeks ago, USA Today reported on the strength […]

Cedar Pointe, Edmond.. Your Next Home?

Having lived in Cedar Pointe up until a year and a half ago, I have a lot of great things I could tell you about this small, close-knit Edmond community, but if you found this, you’ve probably already chosen Cedar Pointe as your next home. Now it’s time to find the right home, right? Here’s […]

Who Gets TBW's Money?

The closing of TBW was sure to affect plenty aspects of the real estate business, but today I was witness to one aspect I hadn’t considered. My client bought their first home and we closed today. It turns out that the seller’s mortgage was through Taylor Bean & Whitaker and the title company was unable […]

Home Sellers Nervous? Why?

Ah, yet another list for Oklahoma City to add to it’s quickly-growing stack of bragging rights.. One of the Top 5 places to sell a home, according to ABC. Anyone out there noticing a trend yet?

Will Obama Extend the 2009 Home Buyer Tax Credit into 2010??

This question gets the award for the most asked question of August 2009. I’d assume it’s because the clock is ticking on those who haven’t found a house yet and they’re worried that they’re going to miss out. Well, I can’t tell you if the tax credit will get extended or not, but what I […]

OKC in Top 5 Personal Income Growth Areas

Here’s another feather in the cap of the Oklahoma City metro and it’s ever-growing list of economic kudos.. according to a report recently released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis at the US Department of Commerce, “Five of the six fastest-growing large MSAs were in Texas and Oklahoma.”