by Brian Pate | Aug 16, 2023
Maui residents have been bombarded with calls, texts and emails from Realtors, developers and speculators less than a week after the wildfires that wiped out over 2,200 structures. Real estate agents, developers and speculators are offering to buy property from those...
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 | Nov 1, 2022
The North Carolina Real Estate Commission included in their November 2022 Bulletin, an article regarding Assumed Business Names. The North Carolina legislature enacted Chapter 66, Article 14A, the “Assumed Business Name Act.” The point of the changes was to make it...
by Brian Pate | Oct 20, 2022
The listing inventory in the Triangle Multiple Listing Service (TMLS) has increased almost 500% in the last six months. Data from TMLS in the sixteen counties surrounding Raleigh and Durham, reveals that inventory has increased 495% from March 15, 2022 through October...
by Brian Pate | Aug 4, 2022
July has been an interesting month in real estate activity in the Raleigh and Durham region of North Carolina. The number of listings is up, as are the number of sales, while days on market has started to shift due to some new rules with the Triangle MLS. A merger...