Whether or not now is a good time to buy [tag]real estate[/tag] depends, as most things do in finance, on time and amount. For example, if you have been renting for the last year or two and have saved up 20% for a down payment and you just found the house of your dreams, then yes, now is a great time to buy real estate. But what about people looking for a good investment? Is now the right time?
Sell Home Yourself
As a professional in a service industry, I know that often times it can seem as though a professional doesn’t do anything that you couldn’t do yourself. Usually, that means that your professional is just very good at their job. However, that isn’t always the case. There are plenty of financial planners and financial advisors out there who run a version of the same Internet calculators that you can find to determine how much you need to save per month, and then set you up in the same American Funds portfolio they put everyone in. (A portfolio they probably got during a "training" class from a more senior advisor.) The same is true of real estate agents. A lot of real estate agents don’t do anything more than put your home on the [tag]MLS[/tag] system and then answer the phone. That is not the case with my [tag]real estate agent[/tag]. Due to the various lifestyles that we have chosen to live over the last several years, we’ve moved more than your average person. This move will be our third since 2002. Our [tag]realtor[/tag] who helped us buy our second and third place (we bought our first directly from the builder) …