Tag archive for ‘prices’

Good Vacation Home News in the Wall Street Journal

Good Vacation Home News in the Wall Street Journal

Though not mentioned specifically, Taos certainly has a stake in how the national and worldwide markets go in second and vacation homes. In the Wall Street Journal Blog, a post speaks to the “Optimistic Outlook for Luxury Vacation-Home Market.”
While a lot of the more recent activity has been outside the US, this post is [...]

It’s All About Supply and Demand in Housing

It’s All About Supply and Demand in Housing

Taos real estate has enjoyed a sustained 10+ year run of steady price appreciation. I just posted about the current high inventory of homes listed, and it was interesting to see this post about national home prices come through my feed reader this morning.
True, the Taos real estate market doesn’t track with the national [...]

National Home Prices Plummeting - Is Taos Immune?

In my job with the New York Times as the Real Estate Business Guide writer, I follow national and regional real estate trends closely. It’s certainly no secret that the mortgage problems and increasing foreclosure inventories are creating quite a different national real estate market than we’ve experienced in the last ten years or [...]

Is it a Good Time to Buy Taos Real Estate?

Is it a Good Time to Buy Taos Real Estate?

It’s early 2008, and the statistics show that Taos real estate sales were down anywhere from 25% to 40% last year from the previous year.  It varies by area and by how you break out the statistics, with gross sales dollars not down as much as the number of transactions.
With most of the country predicting [...]