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How Your First Home Can Help You Move Up to Your Next Home

How Your First Home Can Help You Move Up to Your Next Home Why Your First Home Was Never Meant To Be Your Forever Home Remember how exciting it was to buy your first place? It felt like crossing a long-awaited finish line. It gave you a place to build your life. Maybe it’s where you lived when you g

2026 Housing Market Forecast: What to Expect in the Second Half of the Year

2026 Housing Market Forecast: What to Expect in the Second Half of the Year If the first half of this year has left you feeling stuck, you're not the only one. Mortgage rates stayed higher than people wanted. Affordability remained tight. And uncertainty overseas added another layer of pressure nobo

Why Today's Housing Market Is Different from 2008

Why Today's Housing Market Is Different from 2008 You've probably heard plenty of doom and gloom about the housing market lately. High rates. Stretched budgets. Headlines that make buying or selling sound like a terrible idea. But the data tells a very different story.  This isn't 2020 or 2021. It w

Why Home Prices Can Be Rising, Falling, and Flat at the Same Time

Why Home Prices Can Be Rising, Falling, and Flat at the Same Time You've probably heard that home prices are cooling off. And that's true – nationally. But zoom in on individual markets across the country, and the picture looks completely different depending on where you are. Some areas are still se