By DON FENLEY A $2.1 million Johnson City sale topped April’s top of the market list. The five bedrooms, five bath Park Place Community home has all the style, and extras that hallmark… Read More

By DON FENLEY TRI-CITIES, Tenn. – There were 88 area mortgaged properties with new foreclosure filings during the first three months of this year. That was an increase of four from the… Read More

By DON FENLEY The Tri-Cities area housing market continues a slow, steady gain as it moves into the second quarter. The Pending Sales Index, which benchmark to a pre-pandemic level, is up 8… Read More

By MICHELLE DAVIS   Real estate professionals and the media talk a lot about balance, but to get a good handle on it, look beyond the most cited metric – months of inventory… Read More

By MICHELLE DAVIS   Most focus on who’s buying homes is on newcomers, and the just-released Census population estimates affirm that more are on the way. There might not be q… Read More

By DON FENLEY The townhome-condo housing market segment was the property type with the largest gains in April. Prices were up 13.3% with the $150K-$250K price range selling the quickest as f… Read More

By DON FENLEY The peak home buying and selling season has arrived and although local sales and prices are performing pretty much as expected, almost all other outlooks have fallen by the way… Read More

By DON FENLEY Kingsport-Bristol is now again ranked in the top 10 emerging housing markets in the United States. It’s the second time that’s happened, but this time there’s… Read More

By DON FENLEY There were 1,440 active listings in the Tri-Cities region in April. That’s a 7% improvement over April 2023 and 47% better than it was when invitatory bottomed out in 202… Read More

BY DON FENLEY There was a subtle, but noteworthy, change in the Census Bureau’s latest local population estimates. It wasn’t so much about the Tri-Cities region’s growth ra… Read More

Mortgage rates are up for the fifth straight week. On average, more than half of local home sales for the entire year occur between March and July. With what’s left of this historicall… Read More

By DON FENLEY Although housing affordability and accessibility remains challenging, the first quarter equity status of outstanding mortgages testify to wealth production in today’s loc… Read More

By DON FENLEY Pending sales jumped 15.1% in March on a 113.3% increases in the number of new contracts in the top bracket of the move-up market.   Although demand – as monitored b… Read More