Posts by Jan Stapleton

By JAN STAPLETON  One look at July’s Home Sales Report was enough to make some say, “aha, I told you the market was going to crash.”   Well, it didn’t. And…

Buying a home is a definite challenge these days. Local prices continue increasing, there isn’t a lot of inventory to choose from, and buyers are worried about mortgage rates. How…

Partnering with a professional Realtor® has always been the ticket to a better real estate experience. Since the housing crunch, it has become even more important.  So far, this year…

Presenting the Mark Keesecker Good Neighbor Award to Darrell Duncan was a personal high point for me at the recent Northeast Tennessee Association of Realtors® (NETAR) membership meeting.  Darrell has…

GRAY – Mid-year trend indicators are painting a clearer picture of the NE TN SW VA housing market and what’s coming. There are some good, and some not-so-good outlooks. One…

Although we’re still in a sellers’ market, buyers have gained bargaining ground – especially in the $300K-$399,999 portion of the move-up market. Attribute that to a market adjusting to pre-pandemic…

Unless you’re a cash buyer, there’s no way around the fact that its tough going in today’s housing market – especially if you’re a first-time buyer or looking in the…

By JAN STAPLETON  Summer has officially arrived, and that puts homeowners – who are on the receiving end of endless debate about why energy prices and up and who’s to…

There’s no question that the local housing market has an affordability problem. It’s a simmering nation-wide issue that has bubbled to the top of discussions for frustrated potential buyers, chambers…

June is Homeownership Month, and this year’s observance is very different from last year. Last year we were in the disorientation of coming off the hottest housing market in recent…