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 […]
The Kolb Team Newsletter – September 2021
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 […]
The Kolb Team Newsletter – August 2021
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, […]
The Kolb Team Newsletter – July 2021
Is a Water Crisis Gripping the Grand Canyon State? One of the most frequent questions we get asked by out-of-state buyers is “Does Arizona have enough water?”. I am not going to attempt to definitively answer that question because there are too many contributing factors to consider, and of course, I don’t have the […]
The Kolb Team Newsletter – June 2021
Talking Inventory & Prices All that anyone in real estate is talking about is low inventory and rapidly rising prices. Let’s dive in to this important subject, again! US home prices nationwide are up an unsustainable annual rate of 14.8%. According to Black Knight (a leading data analytics firm for the mortgage and home […]
The Kolb Team Newsletter – May 2021
Red Day A big part of why The Kolb Team is with Keller Williams is the incredible culture. Keller Williams is committed to the success of their agents in the form of a culture of sharing best practices among the agents and brokers companywide. But that culture of sharing and generosity also reaches outside […]