Kansas City Real Estate Network

Last Week in Review "A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION...BUT DON'T PUSH YOUR LUCK." Barbra Streisand obviously wasn't singing about Bond prices or interest rates in her 1980's song. But those lyrics were fitting last week when the Federal Reserve stepped in with more buying of Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), helping ...

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 ...

....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", ...

Has a bottom in real estate been reached?  Well at least some buyers think some.  The National Association of Realtors reported today that The Pending Home Sales Index rose 6.3% to 87.7 in December from a revised reading of 82.5 in November.  What happened?  Homes are simply becoming more affordable.  NAR's House ...

....Anxiety, pressure....THAT LAST GREAT GIFT IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER....You're bummed out, and the next stop os the food court....Just a quick drink, maybe a light lunch..... The irrestiable smells wafting from around the corner lure you in like a mosquito to a bug ...

If you haven't heard, the Fed dropped the interest rates 3/4 of a point. Typically when the Fed drops mortgage rates, the consumer mortgage interest rate is not affected. Typically, there is no change because the mortgage wholesalers have already anticipated the drop. Today; however, the wholesale lenders must have never anticipated the Fed ...