RealEstateMaxi (@Alan Corey | Real Estate Maximalist) posted: I've sold over 400 homes as a realtor and these are the 5 biggest things home buyers get wrong. 1. A primary home is not an investment You are making emotional decisions on choosing a primary homes, which is often not the best spreadsheet decision. It's okay to invest in your lifestyle, but don't expect it have the amazing ROI on your finances too. 2. Saving for a bigger house doesn't work Your savings rate will not be faster than the rate of inflation. Trying to saving another $10k to have a bigger down payment just makes you buy the same house in a year at a higher price. 3. A forever home is myth The average length of home ownership is 8 yrs. You don't need to shop for a 30-year horizon. Your preferences, life, and career will change in unimaginable ways in 8 years and you'll be ready to move on to a new life and home sooner than you think. 4. There is no perfect home Every budget from $50k to ...

  2023 was slowest year for US home sales in nearly 30 years as high mortgage rates frustrated buyers BY  ALEX VEIGA Updated 10:46 AM CST, January 19, 2024 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes sank in 2023 to a nearly 30-year low, as sharply higher mortgage rates, rising prices and a persistently low level of homes on the market combined to push homeownership out of reach for many Americans. The National Association of Realtors said Friday that existing U.S. home sales totaled 4.09 million last year, an 18.7% decline from 2022. That is the weakest year for home sales since 1995 and the biggest annual decline since 2007, the start of the housing slump of the late 2000s. The median national home price for all of last year edged up just under 1% to record high $389,800, the NAR said. Last year’s home sales slump echoes the nearly 18% annual decline in 2022, when mortgage rates began rising, eventually more than doubling by the end of the year. That trend con...

 Per Austin Board of Realtors;  In 2023, the Austin-Round Rock MSA Housing Market continued its journey toward a sustainable pace. With a Year Over Year decrease of median home price by 10.2% and inventory at its highest levels in eight years, our housing market is still demand-driven. Click here for the ABOR LINK and more Data.  Dec. 2023 ABOR Housing Stats.

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Hi George Vance   Thank you for getting back to me.  CoStar is LoopNet's parent company, so in that way we are the same. As for the real differences, CoStar is a data site and LoopNet is a marketing site.  CoStar has a large commercial database used to help real estate professionals research properties and understand market trends and conditions. CoStar is usually used by real estate brokers and owners with clients or looking for properties for themselves. We have over 175k subscribed to CoStar to have access to its data.  LoopNet has over 12 million visitors coming to its site monthly. LoopNet is geared towards buyers and tenants looking for their own space.  It is free to list on CoStar, but you must have a subscription to view the properties on CoStar. There is a cost to list properties on LoopNet, but millions of visitors can search properties on LoopNet at no charge.  - Karen Saccio LoopNet

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