Taylor-Made Homefront

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...

By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team Every summer, I watch families spend weeks planning their vacations and about five minutes thinking about the house they're leaving behind. The flights are booked. The hotel reservations are confirmed. The suitcases are packed. The...

By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team Every year, homeowners ask me some version of the same question: "If I spend money on my house, where should I spend it?" Most people expect the answer to be a luxury kitchen renovation, a spa-like...

By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team Last week, I wrote about what I call the "Missing Seller Problem" in Northeast Johnson County". While housing inventory remains low, it isn't because buyers have suddenly flooded the market. In fact, much of...

By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team For the last two years, many housing experts have predicted that inventory would gradually return as homeowners adjusted to higher mortgage rates. The thinking was straightforward: as people became accustomed to higher borrowing costs,...

By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team Even though most areas of town are still experiencing a seller-leaning market, and if priced correctly it is still a very good time to sell a home, there is one important thing sellers need...

By Chad Taylor, the Taylor-Made Team Many of the neighborhoods that people love most in Johnson County have one thing in common: huge mature trees. Drive through Prairie Village, Fairway, Mission Hills, or old Leawood and it is obvious why buyers...