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Cultured Austin Home with Exquisite Gardens | #Waccabuc Real Estate
Photos by Zac Seewald Location: Austin, Texas Price: $4,500,000 The Skinny: One of the coolest residences in Austin is on the market. Built in 1979, the original structure was designed by architect...
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Keep Your Houseplants Healthy Through the Winter | Waccabuc Real Estate
Even though your plant resides in a pot indoors, it’s still keenly aware of the seasons. With shorter days, drier air and cooler temperatures, winter is perhaps the most challenging time a year for...
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Housing Share of GDP at 15.2% for Third Quarter | Waccabuc Real Estate
Economic growth in the third quarter was certainly good news for housing and the overall economy. The final estimate of GDP growth from the BEA was a 5% seasonally adjusted annual growth rate, up from...
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Obama: Help for younger, first-time homebuyers | Waccabuc Real Estate
President Barack Obama Wednesday moved to make it cheaper for first-time and younger buyers to take out a mortgage. Obama lowered the mortgage-insurance premium for borrowers who have a down payment of...
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Snap Up a Well Done North Haven Flip | #Waccabuc Real Estate
88 Sunset Beach Road, North Haven The brokerbabble for this really lovely flip begins, “Just finished ground up renovation of Captains Manse.” And by “captains manse” we mean “1950s cape,” and by...
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Sweet Little Cape with Its Own Sandy Beach | Waccabuc Real Estate
10 Bay View Dr E, Sag Harbor Technically, this property is in Noyack, but the address is Sag Harbor, and the views are of Sag Harbor Cove. If a buyer is looking for an easy to manage weekend house,...
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2014 Ended with 39 Percent of Housing Markets Fully Recovered | Waccabuc Real...
As the year ended, 39 percent, or 117, of the nation’s largest 300 markets achieved full price recovery, up 30 percent from the end of 2013. Hundreds of other markets moved closer to full recovery; by...
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Hidden Buildings | Waccabuc Real Estate
Architects have made a virtue out of the need to hide buildings. London-based dRMMM stuck to stringent planning guidelines for rural development, creating an award-winning design in the process. Their...
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Strong First Quarter for Consumer Confidence | Waccabuc Real Estate
The University of Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment reached a ten-year peak of 95.5 in the first quarter of 2015. Although the Index of Consumer Sentiment Index decreased to 93.0 in March from 95.4...
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Housing’s Share of GDP Expanded at the Start of 2015 | Waccabuc Real Estate
With the release of the final estimates of first quarter 2015 GDP growth (a decline of -0.2%), housing’s share of gross domestic product (GDP) grew to 15.45%, with home building and remodeling yielding...
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How Dodd-Frank changed housing | Waccabuc Real Estate
The effect of loose lending during the last housing boom was abundantly clear: Nearly 8 million U.S. homes fell into foreclosure. The response was a slew of new lending rules under the Dodd-Frank...
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Sales of used homes rose 3.2% in June | Waccabuc Real Estate
Existing homes sold in June at the fastest pace in more than eight years, and the median sales price hit a record, according to data released Wednesday. Sales of existing homes rose 3.2% in June to a...
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US Home Builders Optimistic | Waccabuc Real Estate
U.S. homebuilders are feeling slightly more optimistic about the housing market, nudging their confidence this month to a level not seen since the high-flying days of the housing boom nearly 10 years...
View ArticleU.S. new homes sales near one-year low | Waccabuc Real Estate
New U.S. single-family home sales fell to near a one-year low in September after two straight months of gains, but a jump in prices suggested that housing remained on solid ground. The Commerce...
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New Single-Family Home Size: Flat Trends | Waccabuc Real Estate
The typical size of newly built single-family homes was effectively unchanged from the second to third quarter of 2015, posting a small quarterly decline. The current data is consistent with the...
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October Gains for Residential Construction Spending | Waccabuc Real Estate
NAHB analysis of Census construction spending data shows that total private residential construction spending for October increased to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $399 billion. On a...
View ArticleWhy Millennials Can’t Buy | Waccabuc Real Estate
Though 2015 was dubbed the Year of the Millennial, though the final sales data are not yet in, actual purchases by young first-time buyers disappointed many real estate observers. Between July 2014 and...
View ArticleUS home construction jumps | Waccabuc Real Estate
Construction of new homes rose in February to the highest level in five months, but applications for new construction were weak for a third month. Housing starts rose 5.2 percent last month to a...
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Credit for Millennials | Waccabuc Real Estate
Millenials are the largest portion of the US population and range between the ages of 19 and 34. From a psychographic perspective, millenials tend to look at the big picture and measure their success...
View Article#Mortgage rates down slightly | Waccabuc Real Estate
Like the rest of us suffering through August’s oppressive heat, mortgage rates have been disinclined to move much. There just hasn’t been enough positive or negative economic data recently to have an...
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