Thursday, July 23, 2020 / by Vanessa Saunders
By Vanessa Saunders, MBA, MIMC , Broker Owner, Global Property Systems Real Estate.
The Hudson Valley real estate market has changed dramatically in the last four months. The effect of the coronavirus pandemic has put much of the business of buying and selling homes on hold. For buyers, it has tightened the mortgage market, restricted the inventory, and made traditional means of transactions meaningless. Right now, the competition for homes is hot in the Hudson Valley, and buyers need to prepare themselves.
Here are 6 ways home buyers can give themselves a competitive advantage in getting a house.
1. Select a good mortgage lender.
(Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, obtaining a mortgage may be a bit of a challenge. Lenders are dealing with demand and staffing issues.) Finding a mortgage lender involves more than just getting a good interest rate; you want to work with the best mortgage companies, staffed by professionals who will guide you through the process. Barry Goldenberg of L. ...
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Thursday, February 6, 2020 / by Vanessa Saunders
Because of new rental restrictions in New York, landlords must pay the fees of their brokers instead of requiring tenants to pay up front. At first, this sounds like good news for tenants, but critics say landlords will skirt the law simply by raising rents to compensate for the added expense of a broker.
Tenants hiring a broker to find rental properties for them will still be responsible for the broker's commission.
For more information, click HERE to view the CBS2 New York news segment aired on the eleven o'clock news, Wednesday, February 5, 2020.
If you're considering renting, buying or selling a property locally or globally, or need more information, CLICK HERE. ...
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Monday, January 27, 2020 / by Vanessa Saunders
By Vanessa Saunders, MBA, MIMC , Broker Owner, Global Property Systems
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If you're a Hudson Valley home owner, you have the opportunity to sell your existing house now and move up into a new one, or downsize into a home that better fits your current and ever-changing needs. There is a significant demand for existing homes right now. The percentage of all buyers who will be first-time buyers looking to purchase a home grew from 58% in the fourth quarter of 2018 to 63% in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Who is buying.
Millennials are the most likely generation to be making plans to purchase a home within a year (19%), followed by Gen Z (13%) and Gen X (12%)…Prospective buyers in the youngest two generations are primarily first-time buyers: 88% of Gen Z buyers and 78% of Millennial buyers are reaching out to home ownership for the first time in their lives.
When are they shopping?
With a high demand from first-time home buyers and a shortage of inventory i. ...
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Friday, January 17, 2020 / by Vanessa Saunders
By Vanessa Saunders, MBA, MIMC , Broker Owner, Global Property Systems
It wasn't pirates, but it might as well have been. The market is currently at the lowest it's been since 2017 for homes available for sale, and it doesn't look like 2020 will be much better.
One good thing is that mortgage rates remain at historic lows also. But the big challenge to the housing industry is the lack of homes available for sale. Last week, move.com released a report which stated:
“Last month saw the largest year-over-year decline of housing inventory in almost three years with a dramatic 12 percent decline, pushing the number of homes for sale in the U.S. to the lowest level since January 2018.”
The report also revealed that the decline in inventory stretches across all price points, as shown in the following graph:George Ratiu, Senior Economist at realtor.com, explains how this drop in available homes for sale comes at a time when more buyers are expected to enter the mark. ...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020 / by Vanessa Saunders
By Vanessa Saunders, MBA, MIMC , Broker Owner, Global Property Systems
You know all those ultra-slender, ultra-fancy tower condominiums that have been popping up out of the Manhattan concrete since 2015? Next time you look at one, bear in mind that half the condos in them are empty. Surprise! No buyers, according to Nancy Packes Data Services. The other half are probably Starbucks that have gone vertical.
The reason for all the empty rooms over Manhattan: a combination of overly aggressive pricing and a growing public disdain for the skyline-disrupting mansions in the clouds. But really, it's all about pricing.
Comparing the prices of new development units to resale units over the last decade tells the story. In 2012, new units sold for a 22% higher prices than resale units. At the end of last year, the premium was 118%.
Nancy Packes lists three reasons for the “extraordinary oddity of the current cycle. ”
According to Packes, buildings comp ...
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