Posts by Wayne Porter

The local housing market is sending signals that it’s continuing a recalibration and normalization process as it eases into the prime home buying and selling season. The Northeast Tennessee Association…

By WAYNE PORTER  Presentation of the Mark Keesecker Good Neighbor Award and the Realtor® of the Year are high points of the annual Northeast Tennessee Association of Realtors® (NETAR) membership…

Although we’re still in a sellers’ market, buyers have gained bargaining ground. Attribute that to a market adjusting to pre-pandemic levels but still at unbalanced conditions market wide. One example…

The prime home buying and selling season is upon us, and it looks like another year of dueling outlooks and confusion. If you thought absorbing local market information was like…

As soon as we get past the Tax Day hangover and the current brouhaha of the Sullivan Co. reassessments, it will be time for the focus to return to all…

No housing discussion is complete without paying attention to the workforce housing and affordability issue.   The difference between workforce housing and affordable housing is simply this:  Workforce housing refers to…

How many times have you heard the Tri-Cities stock of older homes being described as an asset of “good bones” that presents unique architectural features and charter to the community?   …

Two of the major events each April are the changing of the seasons and recognition of the Fair Housing Month.  Spring has sprung in the Tri-Cities and we’re dealing with…