A couple of recent developments made the news recently that promised to impact Highlands’s real estate scene either now or in the future. The one that got most of the attention last Wednesday came from a familiar source: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. Her news conference’s less-than-stirring pronouncement (“Caution is appropriate”) made headlines nonetheless because […]
Given that the experts have often been as wrong as they were right about predicting at least one real estate trend for 2015 (mortgage interest rates), it’s fair to ask why it’s worthwhile to consult them regarding the coming year. Fair enough. The answer is twofold. First off, for anyone who will be buying or […]
If you are a Highlands real estate observer, last week was the time of month when you typically look for the major data releases which detail how residential sales and prices performed in the previous month. Highlands observers weren’t disappointed: last Tuesday, the key National Association of Realtors® report came in right on schedule, with […]
At the beginning of any month, Sapphire onlookers can find batches of fresh reports about national real estate market activity. Take October, for instance. We’ve just learned a bunch about what happened across the country. September’s numbers won’t be collected and analyzed for a while, but the fresh real estate market data for August is […]
Last week was a head-swiveling version of a follow-the-dots puzzle for those who keep tabs national news related to on Highlands real estate. Children like following the numbered dots to reveal a picture. You can’t be sure what it will turn out to look like until the end. The week was a lot like that: […]
Highlands’s real estate picture usually differs little from that of the nation as a whole. The latest rumblings from the mass media and web continue to bolster the picture of rising values and quickening activity—a sweet story with nary a sour note. In fact the unanimity of voices from almost every corner of the country […]
Sapphire residents been hearing about unbelievably tight housing situations in some U.S. cities for many years, but last week there was one report that would have challenged any imagination. This was about a Wharton School graduate who is spawning a new way to afford rents in the San Francisco Bay area. His solution: live in […]
For Highlands homeowners, the news was a long time coming. The bounce back from last decade’s dizzying plummet in the nation’s residential housing values has been underway for quite a while now—but those values hadn’t quite returned to their former heights. Until last month! The Wall Street Journal was early to break the long-awaited headline, […]
Highlands real estate news is fairly predictable—at least compared with some of the stories that filter in from the rest of the world. Here in Highlands, for instance, wherever a new home is being built, you’re likely to see familiar evidence like stacks of lumber and drywall, cartons of nail gun ammo, sacks of cement, […]
