Category Archives: The Real Story

While celebrating this Independence Day, it seems appropriate to reflect on what it means; yet, I always find it difficult to write about special events and holidays. It seems that all that needs to be said has been said… that … Continue reading →

Market Update… Interview with Ebony Hall of ABC 33/40 TV – Talk of Alabama Interview June 19, 2013

Did you miss it… I started out to write this column about Adding and Maintaining Value; but, while doing so I took a glance at the current interest rates. Wow quite a bump in rates last week! While the fact … Continue reading →

Do you remember when… just a few short years ago (three to be exact) the government paid you $8000 to buy a home if you hadn’t owned one in three years? How times have changed! Today’s headlines: Pending Home Sales … Continue reading →

Here we are a full three months and a few days into 2013 and experiencing a Sellers’ Market … some seven years after the commencement of the fall of the Housing Market. For those who watch the numbers, there is … Continue reading →

It’s a well-accepted fact… Markets are governed by the law of supply and demand. For the past five years the level of inventory for sale versus the demand for housing in the Birmingham housing market has definitely favored Buyers… it … Continue reading →

On January 1 both the Senate and House passed H.R. 8, legislation to avert the “fiscal cliff.” I bet you thought you had heard the last on the “Fiscal Cliff”… You may have even thought you knew what the debate … Continue reading →

As we continue to watch the market, we have a building body of evidence that the housing market is continuing to improve with extremely positive signs that the worst is over. Those markets hardest hit, such as California, Nevada and … Continue reading →