Conflicting Reports

One of the inherent challenges in writing a real estate newsletter is that you want to write something broad enough to appeal to a wide variety of people, but valuable enough to be interesting.  As my day-to-day tends to be based in one-on-one interactions with clients (i.e. about as non-broad as it gets), I start my newsletter prep with the headlines and work my way to back to this section.

What really stood out to me about the news over the past couple of weeks is that everyone seems to be really struggling to figure out what the hell is going on.  Lolz.  Uncertainty and cancellations are at all-time highs, yet more than half of these same homebuyers are optimistic.  There's all sorts of reports of how this is the first buyer's market in over a decade, yet that's not true at all for Greater Boston.  The world is "volatile," yet mortgage rates remain unaffected.

You hear all the time "don't believe everything that you read."  That may very well be true, but to me when it comes to real estate information, it's more so that you need to be able to discern which information is pertinent to your situation and which information may be entirely valid...but applicable to someone else.

I love residential real estate because it's really not so much about the properties, but the people behind them.  Figuring out their likes and dislikes, their motivations and their fears.  If it's been a while since we've connected, let's have a conversation about where you are at, and how I might be able to help translate what is out there in the "real estate landscape at large" to your own, highly personal situation.

It is June now - typically a time of the year when things go from very busy to, well, only kinda busy...so it's as great a time as ever to re-connect!  Hope to hear from you.