Home Loans: What in the World Is Going On?
A friend sent me a great article today about the state of affairs in our nation's lending markets. Sure, some the recent changes were sorely needed and came just in…
A friend sent me a great article today about the state of affairs in our nation's lending markets. Sure, some the recent changes were sorely needed and came just in…
The good folks over at Fixr are making some amazing infographics. Their last one, Your Guide to Roofing Materials, was very well received and I'm sure you'll appreciate this one…
Glenmary is an outstanding community off Bardstown Road just south of the Gene Snyder. It began in the late 1980's and is continuing strong today with new homes being built…
A friend of mine, Rodny Davidson, (a great loan specialist, if you need one) passed along these public opinion charts. They are a great view into the current mindset of…
When all the ancillary real estate Web sites started cropping up about five years ago I thought, “Great! These give consumers more information, which is always a good thing.”
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Putting data into chart form almost always communicates better than simply reading the data. For example, looking at the chart above that shows the total number of homes sold by year in Louisville, KY.
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First American CoreLogic produces some great reports. Not great in the sense that everything is positive but they are very thorough and timely. This most recent report has this to say about real estate in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Kiplinger, Forbes, and other financial publications understand that the general public doesn’t care about the minutiae of high finance. So instead of reaching and connecting with the “every man” they create lists.
Today, we see Kiplinger ranking Cities Where Home Prices Have Held Up Best. It’s a fairly easy calculation.
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Today begins a new, regular posting of Louisville Home Sales compared to previous years. I find that putting data into pictures helps a great deal and I hope you find this new feature worthwhile!
(more…)Roofing materials at a glance. (click to enlarge) Here at Louisville Homes Blog, we absolutely LOVE info graphics. And Fixr (a great site to find qualified home contractors) has been…
Here are a couple of pieces of news that relate to Louisville real estate. The first comes from an AP story that WAVE picked up, Pending home sales rose 8.2 percent in February.
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I wrote a piece in December called Louisville Mortgage Rates Expected to Rise in 2010, complete with a chart showing just how low-interest rates had gone.
The Bridges of Razor Creek is a new development within Jeffersontown that began in 2004 and is filling out nicely. Elite Homes, famous for their Extreme Makeover Home Edition build…
With basketball season almost complete, thoughts of another kind of rebound are quickly approaching. Spring always holds an upswing in Louisville real estate but the real question is, “How will this Spring compare to the last two Springs?”
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