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Will House Sales in Oklahoma City Match “Soaring” U.S. Rate?

Will House Sales in Oklahoma City Match “Soaring” U.S. Rate?

Oklahoma City house sales do usually respond in the seasonal pattern that is familiar in most other areas. Spring and summer lead the way for weather-related, financial, school scheduling and other family-related reasons. From now into well past July (and sometimes even August), house sales activity can be counted on to peak. Those are the normal expectations. But when any segment of U.S. house sales numbers quadruple expectations even before spring bulbs see daylight, that’s

Oklahoma City Rental Properties and the Magician’s Trick

Oklahoma City Rental Properties and the Magician’s Trick

Striving to become a prudent person is a laudable goal—one usually only achieved after impetuous youthful misadventures have taught the wisdom of prudence. Caution—particularly in financial matters—may seem to be synonymous with prudence—but they aren’t always the same thing. Especially when there are magicians at work. An example of that can be found in the way most people think about Oklahoma City rental properties. There’s no sleight-of-hand from the landlord’s point of vi

Mirror Image of Home Pricing in Oklahoma City

Mirror Image of Home Pricing in Oklahoma City

When it comes to the reality of pricing a home in Oklahoma City, it’s natural that buyer’s and seller’s points of view reflect their different roles and objective. In a way, they are mirror images of each another. From the seller’s point of view, pricing their Oklahoma City home starts out from the reality check of the “comps”—the prices registered in recent comparable neighborhood sales. From there, the pricing decision revolves around the tradeoff between maximum asking pri

Nine Terrible Oklahoma City Home Improvement Innovations

Nine Terrible Oklahoma City Home Improvement Innovations

When it’s one of those weekend days when the Oklahoma City weather has refused to cooperate with outdoor plans, one way to fill the idle time is to go online in search of home improvement ideas. You may not follow through with any for your own Oklahoma City home—but it’s amusing to review the almost unlimited number of clever and inventive notions people have put online. When it comes to the kitchen, for instance, there are bounteous home improvement ideas. There’s the herb g

Rate Hike! No Surprise for Oklahoma City House Buyers

Rate Hike! No Surprise for Oklahoma City House Buyers

Oklahoma City house buyers and sellers were not surprised in the least at last week’s Federal Reserve decision to notch up the Fed Funds short-term rates. For once, anticipating the move had been easy. The surrounding factors—the economy, employment, and consumer confidence measures—were all in unison, pointing to a meaningful improvement now underway. Already, a day before Wednesday’s announcement, Oklahoma City readers could confirm what was coming: “Mortgage applications r

Oklahoma City Real Estate Market Taps Confidence Gains: its highest point ever.

Oklahoma City Real Estate Market Taps Confidence Gains: its highest point ever.

The attachment we build to the places where we live is an easy-to-understand human emotion. Almost everyone who has ever moved away from a family home has experienced a sense of loss that can be quite profound. But that’s only one of the emotional connections that come into play where real estate is involved. Even though we tend to think of such important decisions as buying and selling Oklahoma City real estate in more hard-headed terms, a host of complicated human factors c

Oklahoma City Home Prices in 2017: a Nobel Prize Connection

Oklahoma City Home Prices in 2017: a Nobel Prize Connection

The timing for when to sell a Oklahoma City home can be a decision that pretty much makes itself. Sometimes family demands call for a move to larger or smaller quarters; sometimes a change in career demands or a schooling decision dictates a residential switch. But there are other times when an eventual move is in the cards—but timing is flexible. That’s a situation where the decision can hinge on expectations for where future Oklahoma City home prices seem to be headed. Nobo

Oklahoma City Housing Market Fits Many Downsizing Agendas: with new construction halts

Oklahoma City Housing Market Fits Many Downsizing Agendas: with new construction halts

Time Magazine ended last week with a commentary that could foreshadow how this year’s Oklahoma City housing market might differ from years past. Author Bill Saporito identified a mismatch in the housing market that could bode well for empty nesters. Whether or not the implications will be a perfect fit for our Oklahoma City housing outlook, the “Big Picture” assessment does seem to gel with a lot of what we’re hearing and reading. Time’s housing market “mismatch” begins with

Saint Pat. day and the end of Oklahoma City daylight savings... forever?

Saint Pat. day and the end of Oklahoma City daylight savings... forever?

This Sunday marked the annual “spring forward” sleep-robbing occasion: the switch to this year’s Daylight Savings Time. “Springing forward” may sound like a spirited, energetic exercise, but for Oklahoma City residents like me who do our best to keep regular hours, this week it will inevitably produce, at minimum, an extra yawn or two. If it sounds as if I’m a bit grouchy about the whole thing, it’s only partially true. I hardly missed the hour between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on Su

5+ Tips to Reduce Oklahoma City Relocation Stress

5+ Tips to Reduce Oklahoma City Relocation Stress

If you go looking for new ideas to make a relocation to or from Oklahoma City easier, it’s amazing how often the words “stress” and “relocation” appear in the same paragraph. The most universally agreed-upon method is to separate the two by hiring relocation professionals—not surprising since many of the most-read articles are authored by people involved in the industry. But the runners-up when it comes to relocation are either work-related (for those who are making the move

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