December 2010

Happy New Year!!

December 31, 2010

Happy New Year, KCM Community! In some ways, 2010 was a very difficult year for sellers, buyers and real estate professionals. However, it made us a little stronger .. as adversity always does. It also helped us remember that the value of homeownership is so much more than just the price of a house. Let’s make [...]

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Questions You SHOULD Be Asking Your Lender

December 30, 2010

We have run this post before but want to make sure you still are asking the right questions of your loan officer. Here is a great list from Dean. – The KCM Crew More and more, consumers are learning that there is much more to getting a mortgage than just the interest rate and points.  A good [...]

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2011: The Year a House Again Becomes a Home

December 29, 2010

For almost a decade now, every time we talked about real estate we immediately discussed money. We didn’t talk about the value of a home but instead about the price of the house. We didn’t worry about a roof over our heads but instead the ceiling on our interest rate. We didn’t care as much about [...]

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Real Estate 2010: The Year of Intervention

December 28, 2010

This past year has been very challenging for real estate. The market was defined by outside intervention. This intervention tugged at historic trends. Government involvment caused market fundamentals to be distorted beyond recognition. Unpredictability was the only thing we could predict. Modifications The administration’s announced goal of the modification program was to save 3-4 million families [...]

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Dr. Doom, Mr. Bear and Real Estate

December 27, 2010

Trying to negotiate the current housing market is difficult. There are so many external variables impacting real estate it seems almost impossible to project where sales and prices are headed. But, there were two people who saw the challenges we are currently experiencing back in 2005-2006. They looked at the market and predicted we were in [...]

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Happy Holidays to the KCM Community

December 24, 2010

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