Cedar Rapids Real Estate Blog

If I've heard this once, I've heard it a hundred times.  "Christopher, isn't it a bad time to put your house on the market?"  I always say to them, "It depends."  If you're a seller or about to be, you need to know that you will be competing with a much smaller percentage of homes on the ...

Are you looking to buy real estate in Cedar Rapids or surrounding areas in the next few months?  Are you a first time home buyer?  Are you relocating to this area, looking to buy your first home?  If so, I've got great news for you.  It's never been a better time to buy Cedar Rapids real estate.   We all ...

As the year ends for all of us collectively, we as Realtors like to look at the trends that we have experienced over the course of the year as a tool to evaluate trends for the future.  From our collective experiences we have started to see a trend.  Instead of keeping up with the Jones, the new trend is moving down with the ...

Once a year, I like to blog about me.  This is the only time that this blog will be all about me, but I think it's important to know who you are working with, especially when it comes to one of the largest transactions you will ever undertake in your life.  If you want to cut to the chase and miss a great article, you can go to ...

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, ...