Williams Trew Real Estate
While real estate brokerages are patting themselves and their agents on the back for record 2021 numbers of sales and closings, buyers and their Realtors are quietly getting worried that 2022 is going to be quite a challenge. Is that the sound of panic? Not yet, but it sure sounds like something. Recently the Greater…
In the 18 years that I have been in the home building and real estate business, I don’t think I’ve seen as many frustrated buyers. It seems as if no one is happy these days. Buyers can’t find the home they’re looking for. They don’t want to get in bidding wars and certainly don’t want…
This was one of those weeks in which I went through all 80 pages of a real estate site (over 500 listings) without finding anything inspiring. Not counting a Westcliff modern which was irresistible until I succumbed to a severe bout of déja vu and realized I had written about it four years ago. By…
Negative twenty-three percent. The total inventory of homes listed for sale in Tarrant County from January 1, 2021, to January 1, 2022, is down 23 percent. That number, of course, is based on several factors: weather, time of year, the practicality of COVID (is it pronounced “oh-macron” or “ahh-micron” or does anyone care?), low inventory…
We can all use a little good news lately. Agreed? Good. We’ll go first. The real estate industry is as healthy as it’s ever been. And despite all the hiccups, curve balls and other pessimistic euphemisms 2021 tried to throw their way, the Ebby Halliday Companies prevailed – in a major way! The three brokerage…