by Emma Perez | Sep 17, 2026 | guides, Insurance, Market Trends, Real Estate
In 2024 a lot of people predicted that buyer’s agent commissions were about to fall off a cliff. Headlines used numbers like 1%. Some predicted the buyer’s agent would stop existing. Two years on, there is data. It does not say what either side expected....
by Emma Perez | Sep 17, 2026 | guides, Investment, Market Trends, Real Estate
For most of living memory, buying new meant paying a premium. You paid extra for nobody having lived there, for the warranty, for the finishes you picked. That relationship has inverted, and the gap is not small. Short answer: the median new home sold for $393,800 in...
by Emma Perez | Sep 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
Most buyers ask for a lower price because that is the only lever they know about. Then they find out at closing that they are short on cash, and the price cut they fought for saved them fifty dollars a month. Meanwhile a record share of sellers are already handing out...
by Emma Perez | Sep 17, 2026 | Buying, guides, Market Trends, Real Estate, Utah
The average Utah homeowner with a mortgage is holding more equity than at any point on record. That is a real number from a credible source, published this month. It is also a number that does nothing for you until you do something with it. Here is what the figure is,...
by Emma Perez | Sep 14, 2026 | Arizona, Market Trends, Real Estate, Selling
Every Arizona seller hears the same advice in October: wait until spring. It is repeated so consistently that almost nobody checks it against the state’s own listing data. When you do check it, the advice turns out to be imported from somewhere with a real...
