Real Estate & Market Report: October 23, 2015 – After a few relatively quiet days on the stock market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average soared 320 points on Thursday after Alphabet, (Google’s parent company) Amazon and Microsoft all significantly beat profit expectations. Investors have renewed faith for the time being that the markets are the place to put your money. ...

Real Estate & Market Report: October 02, 2015 – The housing market just cannot seem to gain the growth traction that so many people have been hoping for. Existing home sales are likely to remain flat in the coming months when you look at the pending home sales report for the month of August. The latest data shows pending home ...

September 11, 2015, like you, I find this day, not only as a day of remembrance but a day to be proud of our country! We Americans stepped up when those that wanted to end our way of life and the freedom we hold sacred attacked our country. Many of our fellow Americans died and thousands of others sacrificed their ...

Real Estate & Market Report: September 04, 2015 – Five hundred point stock market drops, 300 point gains…it’s amazing the volatility and what we can get used to. It seems that in the span of just over a week, investors and consumers have gotten used to the wild swings happening in the markets. The craziness has been driven by 3 ...

Real Estate & Market Report: August 28, 2015 – After watching what has taken place this week with the stock market through Thursday, I don’t believe there is a single person outside of the Fed that really has any idea on what will happen with rates at the monetary policy meeting in September. In the first half of this week ...

The Fed is going to raise rates in September…No they are not…Yes they are… If you ever wondered if we live in a global economy, Thursday was all the proof you could ever need. The Dow plummeted 358 points and it had very little to do with anything in the U.S., today, Friday 419 points For many months there has ...

Real Estate & Market Report: August 14, 2015 – Although it was a week of little economic news in the United States, China’s move to devalue their currency placed the stock market in turmoil for a couple of days. With the devaluation of the Yuan, that has the potential to significantly impact corporate profits for U.S. companies doing business in ...

Please enjoy this quick update on what happened this week in the housing and financial markets.This was a great week for housing news. The real estate market is the strongest it has been since 2007. On Wednesday the Existing Home Sales report came in much stronger than expected. Existing home sales increase 3.2 percent for the month of June to ...

It seems for the moment that stability is returning to the markets: Now that Greece has verbally accepted the terms under which additional money will be lent to the country. There still remains the possibility that plan could go up in smoke as there is staunch opposition to the austerity plan by many people in Greece. For now it appears ...

The employment picture may not be as good as the Fed would like it to be. After many months of consistent employment growth, the June employment report released on Thursday was not as strong as anticipated. This could put more pressure on the Fed to delay raising interest rates. The International Monetary Fund has been very vocal in recent weeks ...