DAILY REAL ESTATE NEWS | MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2014 Americans have renewed confidence in real estate as a great investment. In fact, Americans believe real estate is the “best” long-term investment, followed by gold, stocks, mutual funds, savings accounts/CDs, and bonds, according to a new Gallup Poll of about 1,000 adults who were asked to […]
“We live in Wisconsin. We expect slow sales in February” said Steve Lane, Chairman of the WRA Board of Realtors. And real estate sales in February reflect the record cold this winter, down almost 10% compared with last February. However, median prices are up 7.4% over last February. In fact, prices have risen all months […]
Everyone in Wisconsin can attest to the fact that this has been a hard winter. And real estate sales in January reflect that, down almost 7% compared with last January. However, median prices are up 3.2% over last January. In fact, prices have risen in 22 of the last 23 months. Wisconsin housing remains very […]
Some new homeowners in Wisconsin have been victims of this scam, according to the linked article quoted below. Scammers doing business under multiple names — including Record Transfer Services — are soliciting consumers nationwide who conducted recent real estate transactions. The company tries to trick people into paying more than $80 for useless property […]
Wisconsin Home Affordability index is currently at 227. This is a big decrease in affordability since an index of over 250 was seen last December. HOWEVER, to put things into perspective, the National Home Affordability index is 170. For a full update on how Wisconsin real estate fared in 2013, please see this post. […]