Well after two tough years in the real estate market it can be harder today than in years past to figure out what to be grateful for in my business. I mean blogging is great, but it doesn’t exactly pay the bills! As far as real estate sales and the real estate market are concerned however, here are a few things to that we can all thankful for this Thanksgiving 2009:
- Despite a very difficult economy, “The Great Recession” as it has been termed by some, our nation is still the same prosperous, free country that it was founded as some 233 years ago. America remains a nation where creative, intelligent, hard-working people can still be successful.
- Home sales have made some significant as well as consistent gains during the last few months of 2009.
- Mortgage rates (both the 30-year and 15-year fixed rate mortgage) are at or near record lows.
- Housing affordability is as good as it has been in years!
- FHA has been able to fill much of the void in the secondary mortgage market caused by the failures of Fannie, Freddie, and the mess that subprime lending got us into over the last few years.
- My being recruited by Prudential Georgia has been a good personal move. Now armed to the teeth with Job Loss Protection to add to my many other tools, I can now provide cutting edge exclusive marketing tools and buyer incentives to sell more listings, attract more buyers clients to work with, and hopefully obtain more listing clients as well.
Overall there is a lot to be thankful for if you are in my shoes today. From here, the view to business has got to be looking up finally!
