The Hawaii Team Real Estate Blog
Luxury Market Keeps Moving Strong
People have been asking me how the high end real estate maket is doing in these tough economic times. I tell them great! I am not sure they beleive me, but if you don't want to take it from me check out this article from Business week. "People with money who can...
Another Look At Mid-Century Modern
According to Peter Blank and Craig Mayer from the Mile Hi Modern Team, for the first time ever in Denver there are five houses on the market that have historic mid-century modern significance. “Great,†you say. “So what?†What is mid-century modern? Who are...
New Jumbo Light Loans Now Available
Ok we have been talking about it for several weeks here are the guidelines for the new jumbo light loans. These are the loans that have been created from raising the maximum purchase limit from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Th old limit was 417K now it can go as high as...
Another Rate Cut Expected Soon
The Federal Reserve is expected to again cut key interest rates – now at 3 percent – at its next meeting on March 18. Futures market investors are betting the cut will be at least a half-percentage point. Some have predicted a three-quarter-percentage point cut,...
Have You Vid Toured?
Eric Manthey is the founder of Vid2r (pronounced VidTour), an innovative company in Denver that produces narrated videos of properties for sale. Over the years, photography and virtual tours have helped sell their share of homes, but just recently video has picked up...
If It Ain’t Broke, Break it
I carved out this one paragraph Marc Davison wrote on his 1000watt consulting blog on real estate. Marc was scribbling thoughts of what could be and should be in real estate. As I read the last paragraph I realized what Marc was talking about could be anything. It...
Gotta Love “O” Park
Have you checked out Observatory Park lately? In my opinion, it’s one of the neighborhoods that make Denver so appealing. This gem of an area started it’s rebirth in the late 1990s, when Denverites rediscovered its wide streets, mature trees, larger...
What’s next for Jumbos?
On Thursday I wrote that the stimlus package signed by the President which temporarily raises the limit on conforming loans to 729K may not help people buy more house at a lower interest rate. This is beacuse Wall Street has not figured what to do about this new...
Raising Loan Limits May Not Help
Ok we have been talking about this for the last several weeks and here is the latest from Realtor Magazine online. Now don't get to excited by the news beacuse it may not help, I'll tell you why at the end of the story. I have put the paragraph from Realtor.org in...
Will You Google Your Next Home?
A lot of people – techno geeks, real estate folks and Web developers among them – are watching and waiting for the next big thing to come out of Google’s corporate offices. That “thing†just may be Google Real Estate. By all accounts, Google will...
30-Year Mortgage Rates Climb
Mortage rates continue their rollar coaster ride just take a look at this latest report I saw in the San Jose Mercury News. "Freddie Mac reports a jump in the 30-year fixed mortgage rate to 5.72 percent during the week ended Feb. 14, from 5.67 percent the prior week....
The Top 10 Cities Where Home Values Have Fallen The Most
A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article entitled “Where’s The Bottom.†In it I explained that the housing market here in Denver will begin to rebound by the end of the year based on a few factors like home prices to rent ratios, inventory on the market...