If you've seen a headline this fall saying Tompkins County home prices are down, the number is real. The median sale price fell 7.6% this year, from $395,000 to $365,000. If you own a home here, that probably made your stomach drop a little. If you're trying to buy, it might have made your heart … Continue reading Are Tompkins County Home Prices Really Down?
Pip: Lindsay Hart knows that buying a home in the Finger Lakes is exciting — and that "exciting" is doing a lot of heavy lifting once the utility bills arrive.Mara: Hart is Where Your Home is has been working through exactly that gap — the distance between what buyers expect and what ownership actually costs. … Continue reading Podcast Episode: Finger Lakes Home Buying Reality
"...look for someone with the heart of a teacher, not the heart of a salesman.”
You probably don’t overthink things if you see a house for sale that you’d like to go in and see. If there’s an open house, there’s a good chance you’d just pop on in. If you see a for sale sign on the lawn of a house you like, maybe you’d just call the … Continue reading Interested in buying a house? Do this first…
That means another edition of Trumansburg Tuesday! We are half way through the year and the Trumansburg residential real estate market is robust this year. There are currently 21 residential, non lake front properties listed for sale in the Ithaca Board of REALTORS multiple listing service. The lowest listed price is $124,000 and … Continue reading It’s Tuesday! {trumansburg tuesday}
“Many renters can, in fact, qualify to purchase a home. They may not realize it, but given the low down payment options that are out there, they can take a more serious look at home ownership than they probably expect.” Danielle Hale, managing director of housing research for the National Association of … Continue reading Rent vs. Buy
