by Brian Pate | Feb 17, 2023
The case for real estate ownership is still compelling even though there are some choppy waters across the country. Every three years, the Federal Reserve publishes their Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). The new SCF won’t be published until September of this year,...
by Brian Pate | Feb 16, 2023
The Patterson-Eppes Home: Historic Home in Wake Forest, North Carolina 605 North Main Street Wake Forest, NC, Wake County Imagine yourself as a child in the 1930s. These were the years of the “Great Depression” following the collapse of the stock market due to...
by Brian Pate | Feb 6, 2023
Hi there, I’m Brian Pate, a real estate instructor in Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina and your agent asked me to share some local real estate statistics with you. As always, if you have any questions, please contact your agent for details on how your house compares...
by Brian Pate | Jan 11, 2023
Welcome to January 2023. It is time for everyone to do their forecasts for the coming year when “experts” try to predict the future. Do they really know what to expect? Absolutely not. The smartest people are those that admit they don’t know what will happen. Some of...
by Brian Pate | Dec 2, 2022
Over the past year, we have seen some significant changes in the real estate market. Make sure you read this entire article for the “rest of the story” as Paul Harvey used to say. Five years from now, we will not even consider the statistical data from...
