Kansas City Real Estate Network

Over the past few weeks, The Dowell Taggart Team has been asked how the real estate business is doing in Kansas City. Instead of caving into news media reports that real estate is sluggish and really down, we typically tell homeowners and news reporter quite the opposite. Our real estate business is doing very well and a matter of fact, our Kansas ...

Wow.  Where we live and how we live....What drives us?  Are we, each of us, the sum total of our credit scores?  These scores affect our ability to rent a car, acquire and keep property and casualty insurance...open a bank account...and for 32% of all employers, the ability to choose the "best" candidate for the job. ...

In his work, Conspiracy of the Rich, Rich Dad entrepenour, Robert Kiosaki, discusses the fact that during our current crisis on Wall Street, wealth didn't evaporate, it just changed hands....WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH REAL ESTATE? Your equity, your value, may come back....If it does, and that's a big if, respected economists are ...

....From time to time, we come across others who impact our lives in a positive way, and unles you live on the Moon, you are aware our mainstream media rarely reports "good news"....I am not referring to Pollyanna News....Cake eating contests, modern art built with matchsticks, or "....man-eating dog subdued without harm by smiling ...

What do Kansas City Homes, Kansas City Real Estate, and Kansas City Homebuyers have in common with ....Beaverton, Oregon...Shickley, Nebraska....Hays, Kansas....Minneapolis, Minnesota, Overland Park, Kansas, Olathe, Kansas, and Lees Summit, Missouri? People from these cities visited our site this morning.  Some looking to relocate, others to ...

So most of us are feeling better about the economy...?  Huh?  Why?  Good question to ask ourselves...Are YOU feeling better about the economy?  The latest government report regarding homebuilders suggests we "feel" better...What does that mean? For most of us, there is an increased sense that credit is ...

[photo:listing:2330800] Huge 5 Bedroom Home • 2,434 sq. ft., 3 bath, 5 bdrm single story - $205,000 - Incredible Price Round Hill, Overland Park  -  Where else can you find an Overland Park 5 bedroom home in a subdivision with a full country club. The country club includes an inground pool, 5 tennis courts and a kids play ...

Falcon Valley, Lenexa  -  Announcing a price reduction on 19626 W 99th, a 2,505 sq. ft., 4 bath, 4 bdrm 2 story "Traditional". Now MLS® $319,000 - GREAT TIME TO BUY!. Property information

Location, condition, price, traffic...These are the cornerstones of successfully selling your client's home.  Ever get a longing for the "good old days"....Or talk with your friends about..."back in the day"?  Nostalgia aside, our memories of the events of our lives almost always exceed the events ...

As posted in USA TODAY, lenders are cutting the credit available to qualified borrowers....These folks carry lower balances and use their cards less....Resulting in lower profits for the card companies and their processors....Hum. Ironically, thee same people are recieiving some of the lowest interest rates in history as they purchase a Kansas ...

....are location, condition, price and TRAFFIC....That's it, no miracles, no "secrets".... ....traffic means MARKETING.... 87% of all homebuyers start with the web...is your home on the web?  Just the Multiple Listing Service, or MLS? That's not the web...At best, that's Realtor.com...that's "OK", ...

I’m excited that NBC Action News is going to report positive Kansas City real estate news on Monday morning. Last week I was contacted by Christa Dubill from NBC Action News reporting how the current $8,000 tax credit, low interest rates and market conditions have positively changed the real estate market. Christa, passed this ...

I'm standing in line at my tennis club last Thursday, (yeah, OK, sniff sniff, just tennis courts)....Guy in front of me is interested in buying a home, but wants to wait for rates to go down...further.  Huh? Wow.  "Go down further"....Interest rates are at near 40 year lows for 30 year fixed mortgages. ....And home prices ...

Round Hill, Overland Park  -  Announcing a price reduction on 5932 West 88th Street, a 3,213 sq. ft., 3 bath, 4 bdrm single story "True Ranch". Now $249,000 - Priced To Sell Quickly!. Property information

it was amazing how quickly I've been losing the weight.  11 pounds inside 3 weeks.  Yep, I'm OK with that. But the real amazing part was how much less I was spending on food....That and my kids are losing weight as well. More green vegetables, more chicken and fish....Less starchy carbs, less fried foods...S'all good.  ...

...and the gal in front of me orders a double half-caff something or other, with whipped topping, smothered in super glue.... That's what I believed I had heard; truth is, I have selective perception...Didn't hear half of what she said, because I was ready to order plain-old coffee, and I wasn't paying all that much attention.  I ...

The good ole "lowball offer"....Welcome back friend. Foreclosures across the country are up, but trending downward in Kansas City, and especially Johnson County, Kansas. Why? Simple....Our market didn't suffer from an overdose of skyroeckting, overinflated housing prices.  We sufferred from an increase in overvalued ...

As Chris wrote to many of our clients, the answer sounds a lot like a contradiction.....With foreclosure rates falling in Kansas City, interest rates also falling, prices still falling....a little.... Sounds like "blue sky" to me....The truth is...Messy, complicated....Our market is still strong for sales as well as purchases, and ...

....Wow, that is a loaded question....Cuz sometimes the best thing you can do is leave things as they are....Making changes, upgrades, remodelling your home....Only works as a strategy to increase the value if the benefit of the changes is greater than the costs....For most homeowners, under most circumstances in TODAY'S market, the ...

That depends....Depends on what you want.  I recently went on a quick vacation to Las Vegas...Yep, I like to play "21"....Sat next to another player that is a Vegas homeowner; a local....Tells me that housing prices hit bottom, but that sales are on the rise....Humm... The variables present in that market are very ...