Thanks for coming back! Hope you’re finding value here. Please feel free to request an appointment to discuss your residential real estate needs, or to see homes. I’m committed to your success! From the Austin Real Estate Blog: in December, for the fourth month in a row, Austin real estate sales were up over the previous [...]

Parents who want to give their kids a great gift should consider making a down payment on a house. According to the Internal Revenue Service, a married couple can give gifts of $13,000 each, money or property, without requiring taxes of the giver or receiver. A married couple can give another married couple a total of [...]

Mark Hall of Vancouver, Washington tells the story of a client who didn’t return her calls when it was critical to stay in touch. This happens more often than you would think. When you’re in the market for a home, it’s important to stay in communication and return calls promptly, especially when you’re in the [...]

A Move.com survey suggests that “17.7 percent of Americans want to take the plunge and finally become first-time home buyers.” That’s actually a big percentage, more than half the adults who don’t own a home, according to Baltimore Sun’s Real Estate Wonk. 15.7 percent consider buying an investment property a priority. One driver for homebuyer optimism [...]

The Baltimore Sun has a good overview of the homebuyer tax credit, including five tips you’ll want to read, starting with “Don’t procrastinate.” Getting your search started now will give you a better chance of finding the right house before the credit deadline. When first-time buyers thought the credit would expire Nov. 30, people scrambled to [...]

Three extensions of the tax credit for first-time home buyers have been proposed in the Senate. The hope is that a liberal extension of the amount as well as the length of time in effect will permanently raise the housing market to a sustainable level of activity before it is phased out or time runs [...]