Positive real estate news and the second “shadow inventory”

My inbox is full of positive news this morning: December home sales trended upwards from the previous year. Home builders’ optimism score is higher than it’s been in the past two years. Core Logic’s chief economist says housing will turn the corner in 2012, citing “a quarterly survey by the New York Federal Reserve Bank, [...]


How’s the market, anyway?

Yesterday I spent the day at Shakori Hills, a big music festival that takes place twice a year right here in Chatham County.  One of the things I love about Shakori is that I get to see friends that I haven’t seen for a long time, and in these times of economic uncertainty I get [...]