As this year comes to a close. I want to thank all those who used the service of The DeBerry Team for their home buying and home selling needs. At the first of the year it was a little frustrating for some of the buyers trying to outbid someone on a home. Today as we move into the new year that has changed. I feel that it is a good thing when buyers of homes have choices and that they have the opportunity to compete on a more level ground as we have today and going into 2023. Our sellers may not receive the way over asking price but I know that our team will be able to get them more for their home than many of the other Realtors in the market. We have a great program for making that happen. I will talk more in detail about this program next year..

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Banks & Mortgage companies may increase rates based on the Fed .50 increase. Recently that hasn't really affected mortgage rates much. They actually moved down over the last few weeks. We will wait and see where they go now. How does that affect a home buying decision. If I used my argument of one of my past blogs, I would say don't let these things keep you from purchasing a home. Why? First, 5 months ago you would have had to bring a lot of money to the closing table. Today that is not the case and so interest rates don't have the affect of what happened recently. In fact, I think it is better not to pull money out of a 401 or other savings accounts just because you had to out-bid a person for a home. I would rather spread my risk over a longer period…

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Here we are in December and wondering where did the year go? As we all get ready for the holidays things like this go through our heads. With that said, our team has been helping both buyers and sellers with their real estate needs. November stats for single family resale homes have shown what I have been talking about in previous posts. Demand is down from the past 2 1/2 years and inventory, interest rates have increased. This time of year is typical to see demand dropping and the interest rates has had some cooling effect as well. However, we are still selling homes. There was 621 single family resale homes closed in November in Collin County. In perspective that beats years 2011, 2010, 2008, and 2003. On average over the past 18 years the average for…

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