Why So Many Sellers Are Cutting Their Price Right Now

Price cuts are showing up everywhere right now, and they mean different things depending on which side of the deal someone is on. Sellers tend to read a cut as walking away with less. Buyers tend to read it as a sign something is wrong with the house. Usually neither is true. More often, the market

There Are 4 Types of Housing Markets Right Now. Which 1 Are You In?

National housing headlines treat the market as one thing. It is not. Right now there are four very different groups moving through it at the same time: cash buyers, buyers using financing, owners who feel locked into a low rate, and builders with homes to sell. Ryan Serhant, CEO of SERHANT, put it b

3 Things You Can Actually Control About Your Mortgage Rate Right Now

For a lot of buyers, affordability comes down to one number: the mortgage rate. When rates move up, the natural reaction is to pause and wait for them to come back down. The problem is that no buyer controls where rates go. What a buyer can control is a set of factors that shape the rate they person

Selling This Fall? You Want To Get These 4 Things Right.

Selling a house this fall is very doable, but it is not the same job as selling in the spring. Nationally, buyer activity typically slows this time of year while the number of homes for sale holds up or climbs. Kansas City is not following that script exactly, and the difference changes how a fall l