Planning Your Home Sale, Part 1: Priorities
Over the next several posts on The Cyr Team Blog, we will be focusing on planning your home sale. These articles are intended to provide some education and insight to help you make smart home selling decisions. Whether you are already getting ready to sell your house, on the fence about making a move or […]
90 Days Back in Business—Real Estate Market Expectations vs. Reality
As of today (August 19, 2020), we have officially hit 90 days back in business. Our local real estate market effectively shut down in late March and there was hardly any new activity during April or May. The only deals that closed were the ones already in process. Otherwise, there wasn’t much else we could […]
What Home Buyers Need to Know in this Fast-Moving Seller’s Market
It is an interesting time for home buyers during this condensed summer market. Being quarantined at home for a couple months forced a lot of homeowners and renters to rethink their housing needs. Whether they want more space or a place where they can comfortably work from home, a lot of people are ready and […]
Is Now the Ideal Time to Sell Your Home?
Housing inventory is woefully low throughout the United States, and especially here in our local market. Normally, we will have around 3-4 months’ worth of houses on the market. Right now, it’s more like only 5-6 weeks (or less) of inventory. Buyers are clamoring to buy and the historically low mortgage rates are giving them […]
The Magic of Real Estate Referrals
In real estate, referrals mean everything. Whether a past client refers a friend or family member to us or we get an endorsement from one of our local network of service providers, it is always greatly appreciated. We depend on referrals to grow our business. Most importantly, they let us know how we’re doing. If […]
Summer Market Update: Home Prices High as Inventory Remains Low
During our real estate market pause, we were predicting and preparing as much as we could. We expected the summer market to be moving fast once the economy was reopened. Buyers have been anxious to move after being forced into reevaluating their housing needs, mortgage rates have remained at record lows and sellers have waited […]
How Will COVID-19 Regulations Change Real Estate Sales?
We’ve been talking about this for the past couple months on The Cyr Team Blog. We’ve been trying to speculate and plan ahead for what we expected to happen once our local real estate market opened back up. Well, certain restrictions were lifted on May 20 that will greatly improve our ability to conduct business […]
How Real Estate Technology Will Streamline the Home Selling Process
Whether you are tech savvy or not, we’ve all been forced to lean on technology a lot more lately. Video conferencing has replaced many face-to-face interactions, both personally and professionally. Tools like virtual reality have allowed us to escape our homes, even when we are sitting on the couch. We are using our devices more […]
How to Make Your Purchase Offer More Attractive
We expect the real estate market to be moving fast this summer. Both buyers and sellers need to be prepared if they want to make successful moves. One major component of any real estate transaction is the purchase offer process. Buyers need to present offers that are as attractive as possible to the seller, and […]
The 2020 Summer Market: Let the Musical Chairs Begin!
2020 has already been a strange year because of COVID-19 and most people being forced to adapt to life in home quarantine. Yet, the economy is slowly opening back up throughout the country as we head into the summer market. Some areas may take longer than others, and there will be a lot of social […]