Values in Five Oaks and elsewhere

Five Oaks like most other neighborhoods in Durham and Chapel Hill has experienced some market depreciation in the last two years. Like everyone elset his has affected me too. Sadly, comparables are comparables in the eyes of bank appraisers. In most cases it really doesn’t matter in the eyes of appraisers if a home sale…

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Although home sales declined…the market looks good?

The Herald-Sun and Tulia are, in my opinion attempting to put a shinny gloss on the Durham/Raleigh real estate market.  I am not convinced that this is the case. This piggy backs with my posting from yesterday… not.  What Trulia and Rick Sharga miss is the fact that our market does not exist in a…

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