real estate market | Sara Hopkins RE

Mar 18

Decoding the "Seller's Market": What Your Realtor Is Trying to Tell You

If you've recently dipped your toes into the real estate market in the Des Moines metro or have been considering buying or selling a...

Feb 14

Answering the Question "How Much Is My House Worth?"

As a REALTOR, “how much is my house worth” is one of the most popular questions we receive. Determining the value of your home is a...

Apr 19, 2023

What’s on the Horizon? Lower Housing Prices or Patient Buyers?

Anything to take advantage of the low rates has simmered. Now buyers are waiting to see what is going to happen next. The media has...

Aug 10, 2022

The Housing Market is Changing But What Does That Mean?

The question I’m getting on repeat: what’s happening with the housing market? I have many things to say on this so I will try to keep...

Aug 2, 2021

August 2021 Des Moines Market Update

Shout out to @simplydesmoines (Les Sulgrove) for being such a great resource to Realtors. He breaks down some pretty impressive stats 📊...

Nov 17, 2020

Why You Shouldn’t Wait to List Your House

This year COVID-19 has devastated many industries from theeconomic standstill. Real estate however is not an industry effected by this...

Apr 28, 2020

2019 - Are we headed for a crash?

This is a great start to the spring market. Despite all predictions of raising interest rates throughout 2019, rates for 30-year fixed...

Apr 27, 2020

Recession? Yes. Housing Crash? No.

Market Conditions Show A Strong Housing Market, Not a Housing Crash I’ve had many people ask me since the Covid-19 crisis started “is now...

Apr 15, 2020

Looking to the Future: What the Experts Are Saying about Economic Impact of Coronavirus

THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CORONAVIRUS As our lives, our businesses, and the world we live in change day by day, we cannot help but wonder...

Mar 16, 2020

How is COVID-19 affecting the Des Moines real estate market

As the world nervously watches the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus), the pandemic has begun prompting responses from every industry, and...

Feb 27, 2019

Interest Rates at their lowest since February 2018!

This is a great start to the spring market, low interest rates. Despite all the predictions of raising interest rates throughout 2019,...

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