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Real Estate Meets Insight: Turning Data Into Decisions – Rob Thompson, RealtorĀ®, Iconic Colorado Properties, LLC

Real estate prices and inflation

I saw this morning someone post a generalized chart stating that real estate beats inflation. Let’s take a look at this locally. Below is about 22 years worth of average pricing, interest rates and inflation numbers. While real estate is largely tracking inflation the last couple of years, we do have a situation that hasn’t […]

The “So what?” of the rates rising

There is a lot of talk right now and the market has been significantly impact in terms of showings, contracts (both of which are way down) due to the rise in interest rates. I wanted to share the ‘so what’ of these rates. Why are these so important? Let’s take a look at a $375K […]

State of the Market: 30 Day Snapshot

This shows Banning Lewis Ranch is the top selling subarea with just under 50 sales the last 30 days. They have about 22 homes on the market and 45 homes under contract. Of particular note is that inventory is rising across these subareas. Increased inventory – homes for sale – will put downward pressure on […]

But it’s different than 2008!

Yes, yes it is. In a number of ways. Let’s take a look at interest rates then and now. “Rates are actually on par right now with the 2008 trend,” I see and hear that being said quite a bit. That’s true. However, that discounts pricing as a factor in the affordability issue we face […]