Philip A Raices
All Things Real Estate: A tough choice to sell or stay
I am currently working with several clients who are still trying to decide whether they want to stay put in…
All Things Real Estate: How to buy home when listings are limited
Purchasing a home today has been the most challenging in as many years as I can remember. Low inventory, competition…
All Things Real Estate: Middle class faces challenging housing market
Over the last number of years since the bottoming out of housing prices in 2011 and the impact of the…
All Things Real Estate: Two out of three Americans own homes
The percentage of historical homeownership rates has risen from 47.80 percent back in 1890 to 65.4 percent by 7/1/21, according…
All Things Real Estate: Repairs vs. upgrades before selling
I am in process of soon to be selling my sister-in-law’s home in Oyster Bay. She has been renting it…
All Things Real Estate: High-flying market likely to slow down
Healthy and Happy New Year to all my readers! Unless you haven't read a paper or watched the news, we…
All Things Real Estate: Renting just might be more advantageous
Observing current prices of housing as well as the cost of renovating and upgrading older homes and those places that…
All Things Real Estate: Going forward will renting be more to your advantage?
Observing current prices of housing as well as the cost of renovating and upgrading older homes and those places that…
All Things Real Estate: Homeowners face an uncertain future
It’s obvious to everyone that prices for consumer goods, food, gas (up $1.20 since 2020) and heating fuel, among almost…
All Things Real Estate: Do your homework to hire a broker
People many times become enamored with the size of a company as a prerequisite to hiring an agent. Then others…
All Things Real Estate: Technology has helped brokers during the pandemic
Being in the business full-time since 1993 and realizing how far the industry has advanced technologically in that period of…
All Things Real Estate: Outlook for housing market uncertain
Are you still renting? If so ask yourself why. Is it because you want to be as flexible as possible…
All Things Real Estate: Weigh trade-offs in selling or buying a home
As we all know, housing inventory is low, but so are interest rates extremely low too. It’s what I’ve called…
All Things Real Estate: Look at your home as if you were the buyer
I usually convey this information to all of my client sellers when they are considering putting their home on the…
All Things Real Estate: Has the heated real estate market left you behind?
The obviously insane increases observed in real estate prices and values lately from 17.4 percent on average across the U.S.…