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By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team I recently read an article about a national Gallup survey that gave my profession something to think about. Only 17% of Americans rated the honesty and ethical standards of real estate agents as high...

By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team One of the hardest things about a changing real estate market is recognizing the change while you are still in the middle of it. By the time the statistics make the shift obvious, buyers...

By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team We have a housing supply problem in this country. I have written about it before. We simply do not have enough homes in many of the places people want to live, and that shortage...

By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team Last week I wrote about how buyers change as we move from the spring market into late summer and fall. Spring buyers tend to be more competitive. They make decisions faster, stretch a little...

By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team If you are selling a home right now and wondering where all the buyers went, you are probably not imagining it. A few months ago, your neighbor may have put their home on the...

By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team When it comes to buying a home, a surprising number of people are making major financial decisions based on advice that is outdated, incomplete or simply wrong. The housing market is difficult enough right now...

By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team Last weekend, Leah and I moved our oldest son, Ben, into his freshman dorm at KU. Like thousands of other parents this month, we hauled boxes, made Target runs and tried to figure out how...

By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team Last week I wrote about some of the outside forces making it more difficult for first-time homebuyers to enter today's housing market. Cash buyers, accumulated equity, and changing market dynamics have all made the...

By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team Over the past several years, I've noticed something changing in our local housing market. First-time homebuyers aren't simply dealing with higher interest rates or higher home prices. They're competing in a market that looks...

By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team Every few years, a new technology comes along that promises to change the real estate industry forever. When the Multiple Listing Service moved from a printed book in broker offices to an online database,...

By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team This past week, I had a conversation with a neighbor who was considering installing a pool and wanted to know how it might impact their home's value. I helped another client find a trustworthy...

By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team One of the things I've learned after 21 years in real estate is that buyers often recognize changes in the market before sellers do. That may sound backwards. After all, sellers own homes. Buyers don't. But buyers...