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It’s a seller’s market in the Madison, Middleton, and Verona area right now and things are very active. We’ve run into the multiple offer situation on our last 3 house listings. This is a good thing, but also a very confusing scenario for a seller. Make sure you have someone helping you who knows how Read More

Good homes, appropriately priced, are moving fast. This is good news for sellers, but for us it means we can’t keep an inventory of available homes for sale. Our shortage of inventory is your gain! We will offer 1/2% reduction in our listing fee now through May 15, 2015. If you are considering selling your Read More

We get a lot of sellers that want to sell their home quickly. Maybe they’ve got a new home under contract contingent on selling their old home. Or maybe they are making an out of state move for a new job. Whatever the case may be, there are three key factors to selling your home Read More

Spring is not far off, but the spring craziness in the housing market has already hit! Buyers are coming out of the woodwork and searching for homes. Good properties that are accurately priced are moving fast. Believe it or not, we are back to seeing multiple offers on houses, and the last open house we Read More

For several years through the real estate market downturn lenders were tightening up and putting more restrictions on mortgages. Recently things have changed and lenders have started to loosen mortgage qualification requirements. Four things currently making mortgages more affordable are: In December Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced that they would be offering a mortgage Read More

I often get frustrated with the way a large portion of our industry works. When you look at the way many real estate agents do marketing, you’ll notice that much of the marketing is agent focused rather than property focused. At the last brokerage we worked at before starting Great Rock Realty, most of the Read More

According to the Wisconsin Realtors Association statistics median house prices in the State of Wisconsin increased from $143,500 to $148,000 which is a 3% increase. In Dane County things were a slightly stronger with median prices rising 4% from $211,000 to $220,000. Statewide home values have increased year over year for 33 of the last Read More

Whether you are saving for a down payment on a house or trying to lose a few pounds, setting specific goals is a great way to ensure you achieve what you want to accomplish. I recently hit one of my goals for 2014, which was a fitness goal of running 300 miles and working out Read More

Of course this answer depends on your personal timeline. It’s true, there generally is less activity in the real estate market during the winter months. However, it’s a myth that homes don’t sell during the winter. There are some benefits to buying or selling during the winter. The main benefit is less competition. If you Read More

Over the past 5 years we have seen amazingly low mortgage interest rates compared to the historical average. I can only imagine that over the next 5 years we are likely to see higher rates as the economy continues to improve. However, last week there was some market volatility causing a nice dip in mortgage Read More