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Waiting for a Housing Market Correction? As real estate agents, we at The Kolb Team naturally get asked often about the current market and the crazy rate at which housing prices have been increasing over the past couple of years. We often hear from buyers “I am going to wait until prices come back down”, […]

With the first quarter of 2022 in the books – and it was a wild one at that – I wanted to share some current market conditions as of April 1st, and also share some thoughts from some of our market and industry experts as we head into the 2nd quarter of the year.

Arizona Wants To Reduce Water Use, And Golf Courses Are Not On Board With The State’s Plan A water supply that can be less than plentiful is a given when living in the desert, and for the past few years, Arizona has been trying to find ways to deal with both a shrinking water supply […]

  Let’s Write a Winning Offer With housing inventory at an all-time low and demand still remaining very strong, we are starting to see multiple offers on well-priced homes, especially in the new sweet spot range of $400-500K. So how do we make our offer more attractive than the others? Let’s look at some strategies […]

  2021 Year in Review As we enter 2022, inventory nationwide remains at an all-time low. There are only 294,000 available single family homes in the entire country, which is a 10% drop since January 1st and a 33% drop from this year’s peak in early September. Here in the greater Phoenix area, there are […]

  Happy Holidays! The Kolb Team would like to extend our sincerest wishes for a wonderful holiday season to all of our clients and friends! We are so grateful for all of you and hopeful that this holiday season will be filled with love, abundant generosity to others, and most of all new memories with […]

  A Normal Thanksgiving? Well, it’s looking like it very well may be! Last year, Thanksgiving was a shell of itself. Families met in much smaller groups, travel was at a minimum, no Thanksgiving Day parade, and no fans in the stands at the Lions game (not that it had any effect on my team’s […]

  Third Quarter 2021 in the Books! Nationally We have clients ask us all the time, “When is this market going to start coming down?”. As the real estate situation starts to normalize, it may feel like we are headed for a down market, given the frenzied appreciation of late 2020, which carried over into […]

  Termites?!?! Don’t Freak Out. There is a saying here in Arizona: There are two categories of houses in Arizona – those that have had termites, and those that will get termites. This may sound scary and intimidating to people from the west coast or the Midwest, since there, termite colonies can be massive, very […]

  Buyer Love Letters As we all know, there has been a strong seller’s market for the past couple of years, which means we have been in a very competitive buyer’s market. Buyers are using all kinds of tactics to make their offers stand out, like waiving the appraisal contingency, not asking for home warranties, […]