Whether or not you’ll be traveling out-of-town over Spring Break, go to my Web site – www.movetomilford.com and check out all of the fun things there will be to do around the Huron Valley area over the next few weeks. You can start with The Great Egg Hunt out at Kensington Metropark this week and
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03/29/2013
From the Freddie Mac Web Site comes this report - March 28 Low and relatively steady mortgage rates are invigorating the housing market. For instance, existing home sales over January and February experienced the strongest two-month pace since November 2009, while new home sales were the str
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03/28/2013
The annual Huron Valley Easter Egg Hunt was this liast weekend and it was a blast, albeit a chilly one. Below is the video from that event. Enjoy. There was somethign for all of the kids - goodie bags, face painting, a visit with the Bunny and, of course, the hunt. What a hoot! This evetn was put
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03/25/2013
A recent survey by Zillow of over 100 professional economic forecasters produced a prediction of a fairly fast recovery in housing prices - about 4.1% per year over the next five years. That's above the historic (pre-bubble) rate of 3.4% that had been in place for decades. If the Zillow predictio
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03/24/2013
“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen?” (John Steinbeck) from the Jack’s Winning Words blog. You could also state this thought, “I wonder how many people I know that I don’t really know?” As I get older I’ve become a bit more introspective about thoughts like Stein
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03/23/2013
Today is the day for the annual Huron Valley Chamber of Commerce free Easter egg hunt. The event divides the kids into three different age group brackets, so that it's a little more fair for the younger aged children. The hunt will tak place at the Duck Lake Pines Park on Duck Lake Rd in Highland
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03/22/2013
In Michigan, March Madness - the NCAA Basketball Tournament is a big thing. We have two relatively close teams in the Tourney - Michigan and Michigan State - and both are plying at a local venue - the Palace of Auburn Hills. It get a little crazy. The real estate market is a little crazy right n
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03/20/2013
I hear the phrase in ther title of this post more often these days as more and more people who have been just barely hanging on by their fingernails finally get out of denial and call me about a possible short sale. These are not people who did anything wrong. They did not borrow frivolously, no
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03/18/2013
Issues with credit and appraisals, as well as frustrations with the industry infrastructure causes Builder Confidence Index to slip, again - WASHINGTON, March 18 – Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes paused for a third consecutive month in March, with a two-point
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03/18/2013
I hear that phrase, "it's all in the numbers", often when agents are discussing real estate. It’s all in the numbers – you need so many suspects to get so many prospects in order to get so many clients, so that you can get so many listings or buyers, so that you can close enough deals to make so
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03/16/2013