Our Blog Largest One-Month Homebuilder Confidence Gain in 10 years Homebuilder confidence rose six points in July, according to a new report from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). This is the largest recorded increase in a decade. In conjunction, the Home Price Index reached its highest point on … Read More Tags: Business Week, Home Price Index, homebuilders, mortgage rates, National Association of Home Builders Categories: Home Buying, Home Selling, Mortgage, Real Estate News Six Surprising Factors that Affect Home Insurance Rates Personal factors hold a lot of weight with your home owner’s insurance agent. Be prepared to pay more when you or your home features these more costly circumstances. Pets. Insurance rates may increase if you own pets. Some insurance companies … Read More Tags: credit rating, home insurance, home insurance rates, Home Ownership Categories: Home Buying Pools: Yay or Nay? Wisconsin’s hot weather streak has us thinking about one thing: where is the nearest pool? The Association of Pool and Spa Professionals say around 4.7 million U.S. homes have in-ground pools. What are the benefits to having a pool on … Read More Tags: Backyard, entertaining, Pools, property value Categories: Home Buying, Home Improvement, Home Selling Single Home Owners Boosting U.S. Economy The U.S. has reported its highest percentage of solo home owners ever. With 28% of households being one person, singles are fast becoming an economic powerhouse. Around 30 million people, including 18 million women, have pursued single person homes, and … Read More Tags: economy, female home owners, Housing Market, real estate market, real estate opportunities, real estate trends, single home owners Categories: Home Buying, Real Estate News Urban Growth Outpaces Suburbs for First Time in a Century New data from the Census Bureau shows American cities growing more than their suburban counterparts for the first time in 100 years. Since the mass production of the automobile began, US cities have not seen such a dramatic change in … Read More Tags: Census Bureau, Cities, Milwaukee, real estate trends, Suburbs, Urban Growth Categories: Home Buying, Real Estate News Experts Say Housing Prices Are About to Turn Experts Say Housing Prices Are About to Turn Each quarter the independent research and consulting firm Pulsenomics conducts a survey of economists, investments strategists, and housing market analysts about their expectations for the housing market over the next five years. … Read More Tags: appreciation, home owners, Housing Market, real estate trends, Realtor Mag, survey Categories: Home Buying, Home Selling, Real Estate News Free Real Estate Career Webinar – Thursday, June 21 The real estate market is up — start your career in real estate today! Sales from May 2012 show the real estate market is up 18.9% from the same time last year according to the monthly report from Wisconsin REALTORS® … Read More Tags: Career Webinar, Real Estate School, Shorewest Realtors Categories: Careers, Home Buying, Home Selling, Real Estate News Shorewest.com Visitors are Up! Are you thinking about buying or selling a home? NOW is the time to move forward. Recently, we have received a 31% increase in visitors to Shorewest.com compared with our monthly daily average in February 2010, according to our business … Read More Tags: Home, Home Buyers, MyShorewest, Real Estate, Sales, Website, Wisconsin Categories: Home Buying, Home Selling, Real Estate News Real Estate: A Good Investment and Place to Raise a Family We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. Real estate continues to be a good investment. If you look at the chart below, you’ll see that real estate still far exceeds other investments. A National Housing Survey done by … Read More Tags: Fannie Mae, Home, Homeownership, Investment, Real Estate Categories: Home Buying, Real Estate News Home Pricing as We Move Forward While no one really knows what will happen with prices, most housing experts predict that prices will remain soft for at least 18 months and not hit today’s prices again until the 2nd quarter of 2012. In fact, most are … Read More Categories: Home Buying, Home Selling, Uncategorized Page 35 of 36« First‹ Previous313233343536Next ›