Cedar Rapids Real Estate Blog

If you're a seasoned home seller like myself (I've sold four homes of my own, and am about to sell my fifth), you should have by proxy learned some hard lessons about what not do so in the sale of your home.  Most home sellers learn these by experience, and in this case, experience unfortunately means loss of money.  Home ...

Statistics always play a huge role in the real estate game, but now, they are huge!  Almost weekly, there is a report on the national news of the great decline in the housing market and how everything is collapsing because of sub prime lender tightening of the belt, higher interest rates, foreclosures looming in the near future, etc. Well, ...

One more resource for relocating to Cedar Rapids: www.zipcodestats.com   and www.zipcodefacts.com (2 domains, one great resource). This beta site offers desirable demographic information for buyers. You can search by city, area, state, and zipcode; or simply browse by state or zip code. If you select a state or zip code, information has ...

Once the holidays are over and we enter the new year, the market slowly starts to heat up until it's red hot in the spring, continuing this frenzied pace well into the summer months.  If you are looking around now at Open Houses and your house is still on the market, are you prepared?  If you find the house of your dreams and you are ...

If you have ever been on the fence about buying a home, now might be the time to slide off that fence and buy!  Interest rates are nearing an all time record low, and I'll get to that in a minute. If you are considering buying a house whether it be first time or not, here are some things to consider.Seller's know that on average, ...