The statewide affordability numbers look daunting. The picture in Central Maine, with the right programs behind you, is a good deal more hopeful.
If you have been reading about the Maine housing market lately, you could be forgiven for deciding a first home is out of reach. The figure that gets quoted is a real one: the income it takes to
[...]A stalled listing is not a verdict on your home. It is information, and there are only a few real levers worth pulling.
There is a particular quiet that settles in around the two-month mark of a listing that has not sold. The showings slow, the phone stops, and it is easy to start taking it personally, as though the market has judged [...]
It is the most common thing buyers are saying this summer. It is also worth doing the honest math before you let it decide for you.
Almost every conversation we have with a buyer in Waterville, Winslow, or Oakland this summer arrives at the same sentence. We would love to buy, but we are going to wait for rates to come down first. It is an [...]
The move most people assume is impossible is more doable now than it has been in years.
Almost everyone who needs to sell one home and buy another arrives at the same knot of worry. Sell first, and you risk having nowhere to go. Buy first, and you risk carrying two mortgages while the old home sits. For the past few years that fear was [...]
Why the safest-feeling price on the sign is rarely the one that gets Central Maine sellers the most this season.
You want top dollar for your home. You also don't want it to sit while a rotating cast of buyers watches the price get chipped away.
You want to walk away from the closing table knowing you didn't leave money on it. You don't [...]
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