No one has all the answers to buyers' and sellers' concerns. But we're constantly striving to offer you knowledge and resources you need to have an informed conversation with those you serve.

A lot of my friends in the real estate business come to me with this question: "Where can my buyers go to find the lowest interest rate?"

Considering that I spent more than a decade working as a loan originator, and years before that in real estate sales, you’d think I could give them a clear-cut answer. Maybe I would have, a few years ago.

But today...

Essentially, the right to post signs is a matter of free speech. Yet living cooperatively in society requires that we, as real estate professionals, must balance our right to free speech with the public’s right to safety and aesthetic standards.

There’s a lot you can learn about today’s real estate market by looking closely at our past.