Tag: Real Estate

‘I Want to Buy a House’: A Guide to Taking the Real Estate Plunge

‘I Want to Buy a House’: A Guide to Taking the Real Estate Plunge

  Maybe youre renting in an overpriced neighborhood and aresick of writing a huge rent check. Maybe youre living in a yurt and miss having normalwalls. Wherever you wake up, the same thought runs through your head every morning: I want to buy a house! 

The Double-Sided Housing Recovery in Nashville

The Double-Sided Housing Recovery in Nashville

  While Nashville managed to stay afloat throughout the finance crisis despite similar metros across the country crashing, a new report from Pro Teck Valuation Services spotlights Nashville’s current recovery, highlighting that the city is falling into an affordability crisis. Pro Teck’s latest Home Value 

Best January On Record for Middle Tennessee Housing Market

Best January On Record for Middle Tennessee Housing Market

    There were 2,411 home closings reported for the month of January, according to figures provided by Greater Nashville REALTORS®. This figure is up 11.2 percent from the 2,167 closings reported for the same period last year. “   There were 2,755 sales pending 

Steps to Buy a Home: How Long Do They Take?

Steps to Buy a Home: How Long Do They Take?

With the shrinking inventory of homes coming on the market, buyers are turning to Realtors to help find and navigate the home buying process. There is a great article on Realtor.com that answers many questions the potential home buyer face.   Homes are not impulse 

Nashville Tops the List of Hottest Housing Markets for 2017

Nashville Tops the List of Hottest Housing Markets for 2017

Bring your banjo and a thirst for strong home value growth. Music City has moved beyond its country roots to become a fast-growing economy with employment by the healthcare industry and big corporate names including Nissan, Randstad and Kroger — plus the popular chain of 

Things You Have to Do Before You’re Officially a Nashvillian

Things You Have to Do Before You’re Officially a Nashvillian

  Nashville has seen a spectacular influx of people moving here lately from all over the country, all of whom are eager to take a bar crawl down Lower Broad and immediately declare themselves a native. Well, not so fast there, bucko. There are, in 

Tight real estate market becomes game of ‘first to know’

Tight real estate market becomes game of ‘first to know’

With multiple offers often going in the first day a home goes on the market, Realtors must be resourceful in getting their clients in the door first. After walking through the first house they looked at, first-time home buyers Megan and David Stricker followed their 

Zestimate Accuracy

Zestimate Accuracy

  When CBS This Morning co-host Norah ODonnell asked the CEO of Zillow recently about the accuracy of the websites automated property value estimates, known as Zestimates, she touched on one of the most sensitive perception gaps in American real estate. Zillow is the most 

Brentwood bans residential uses in Town Center district

Brentwood bans residential uses in Town Center district

  The elected leaders of Brentwood have ended an experiment with more concentrated and intensive development of apartments and condos in the city’s Town Center district. Brentwood city commissioners voted 6-1 on Monday to bar any further residential development reversing the city’s efforts over the 

Can the people #Nashville hopes to attract afford to move here? And can the residents who made it desirable afford to stay?

Can the people #Nashville hopes to attract afford to move here? And can the residents who made it desirable afford to stay?

Nashvillians of a certain age know there’s a “right side” of Gallatin Road. It’s the side that’s closer to the river, the side that’s historically had higher property values. It’s the side that’s closer to parks and views of the Cumberland than to what used