If I were to describe the Des Moines real estate market as a running engine, the gas pedal would be all the way to the floor and the needle on the fuel gauge would be just above empty. It All About Supply & Demand Realtor.com recently reported that nationally, the number of homes for sale […]
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Des Moines 2021 Housing Forecast
As the last days of the 2020 Des Moines real estate market come to pass, there are many national reports forecasting what will happen in 2021. If 2020 taught us anything, it is that predictions are not as easy as they used to be. In this issue, I’m looking at national forecasts and applying them […]
Where Des Moines Record Home Sales Are Coming From
Last month I dusted off my crystal ball and made some year end predictions. Specifically, where we would end the year with homes for sale, homes in sale pending status and total sales for the year. Since this last article, 2020 closed sales surpassed 2019 year-end numbers (as predicted) and we are indeed on our […]
Fire Up The Crystal Ball
Des Moines October Market Monthly Interactive Review Before I get into some year end predictions, click the image below to access the interactive October market report. Ten Months Down – Two Months to Go I’m going out on a limb this month. With just days before the Presidential election and the likely weeks of controversy […]
The Covid Effect on The Des Moines Real Estate Market
The Place Is Here, The Time is Now, For Des Moines Real Estate
Just when we think we’ve hit bottom for listing inventory, another week passes by with even fewer homes for sale In 1959, a new television show premiered on CBS called The Twilight Zone. The title of the first episode was “Where is Everybody?” After the famous opening, the narrator begins “The place is here, the […]
A New Term In Des Moines Real Estate – Inversion
Six Months That Felt Like A Year
Des Moines Home Values Appreciated During Covid-19 With new record low home mortgage interest rates, homebuyers are able to spend more on their home purchases in 2020. The ongoing question this spring from homeowners contemplating listing their homes is whether their homes are worth more this spring than a year ago. The short answer is […]
Welcome To The Des Moines Real Estate Twilight Zone
What Else Could Happen? The Ups and Downs (and Ups) of Des Moines Real Estate For the first 11 weeks of 2020, everything was looking fantastic for Des Moines residential real estate. A mild winter and warm weather were all that it seemed to take to signal homebuyers and sellers to start their engines. The […]