Chris Jamison Omaha area Realtor at Nebraska Realty

08/28/2026

Dundee doesn't hand out many of these.

5022 Izard is a 1920 home that was converted to a duplex decades ago — two private entrances, two full kitchens, 2 bed/1 bath upstairs and 2 bed/1 bath down plus an office/sunroom. So you can live on one side and rent the other, run it as a straight investment, or put it back together as one big single-family. Not many houses give you all three options.

The boring-but-expensive stuff is already handled: Grade 4 hail-resistant roof, tuckpointed brick, Pella wood windows on the main level, newer water heater, ducts cleaned, Nest thermostats. The detached 2-stall garage even has an EV hookup.

4 bed | 2 bath | 2,384 sq ft | $390,000 | MLS 22624744

All 59 photos and the 3D tour: https://omahahomes.online/d8r6r2iq

Listed by Kyle Fagan, Nebraska Realty. Want to walk through it? Text me — 402-690-4481.
Chris Jamison | Nebraska Realty

08/27/2026

$100,000 salary in Omaha. What can you actually buy?

Run the 28/36 rule — housing at or under 28% of your gross income — and you land near a $2,333 monthly ceiling. At 6.5% with 10% down, that's a purchase price around $240,000 to $270,000.

Most people guess higher. A lender will often approve you higher. The gap between those two numbers is where "house poor" comes from.

A car payment or student loans pull it down further, so start with your whole debt picture before you pick a target price. Then there's property tax, which catches more Omaha buyers off guard than anything else on the list.

Full breakdown — the 28/36 math, payment examples from $250K to $600K, and FHA vs. conventional:

Find your real Omaha home budget with the 28/36 rule, updated payment examples at $250K–$600K, FHA vs. conventional breakdown, and the property tax surprise most buyers don't see coming.

08/24/2026

Five places worth knowing about in Omaha right now.

Omaha Bagel Co. — the sourdough operation that started in a home kitchen back in 2022 just opened its first storefront at 5423 Leavenworth in Midtown.

Kpot Korean BBQ — first Nebraska location, going into the old Johnny's Italian Steakhouse space at Village Pointe.

CAFOMA — new coffeehouse now open on the second floor at Westroads, between JCPenney and Dick's.

Don Juan Mexican Food & Seafood — open at 3512 Samson Way in Bellevue.

Yard House — first Omaha location coming to Avenue One at 192nd & West Dodge. Exterior work is underway.

A cottage bakery growing into a real storefront is my favorite version of an Omaha story, so I'm pulling for the bagels.

I round these up every month in my email: https://omahahomes.online/d8r6o5qk

08/21/2026

A 1923 brick Craftsman on Lincoln Blvd with the original woodwork still intact — which, if you've toured many houses this age in Omaha, you know is rarer than it ought to be.

Hardwood floors, a built-in buffet in the dining room, updated kitchen, exposed brick downstairs, and an unfinished bonus room on the second floor that's waiting for someone to decide what it wants to be. 4 bedrooms, 2,741 sq ft, $230,000. Short walk to Bemis Park and Creighton.

Open house tomorrow, Saturday 2:30–4:00.

Listed by Jan Nicola | Nebraska RealtyListing Address: 3024 Lincoln BLVD, Omaha, NE 68131
Schedule a showing and request more information here: https://omahahomes.online/d8r6pok8

08/21/2026

I write one email a month about Omaha. Here's what's in it.

What's opening, closing, and being built around town. Events actually worth your time — I check dates against the organizer's own site, not an aggregator that's still promoting a festival which stopped running in 2023. A hidden gem most people who live here have never been to. What the housing market actually did last month, straight from the official numbers, including the months where I have to correct myself. And a little of whatever's going on at my house.

No pitch, no spam, nothing being sold to you. One email a month, and you can leave whenever with no hard feelings.

Sign up: https://omahahomes.online/d8r6o5qk

08/20/2026

There's a 525-acre tallgrass prairie twenty minutes from midtown that almost nobody in Omaha has walked.

Glacier Creek Preserve, 14810 State Street in Bennington. Late summer into September is the best few weeks of its year — the big bluestem and Indiangrass hit full height, over your head in places, and it stops looking like a field and starts looking like the Nebraska that was here before anyone drew a grid on it.

The reason you haven't heard of it: it isn't a park. UNO runs it as a research preserve. No highway signage, no gift shop, no programming. The oldest section has been under restoration since 1970, which makes it one of the older prairie restorations in the country.

Before you go: it's free, open daily from 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset, and there are no restrooms unless you email ahead. No dogs at all, on leash or off. And no staged or commercial photography, which is worth knowing because it looks exactly like somewhere you'd book fall family photos.

Bring water and wear long pants. It's a prairie, not a path.

I feature a spot like this every month in my email: https://omahahomes.online/d8r6o5qk

08/19/2026

I run Cunningham most weeks — that loop is a dead-on 10K. Just updated my guide to Omaha neighborhoods by outdoor activity: running, cycling, paddling, fishing. For anyone moving here who wants to keep their routine.

Running, cycling, hiking, or paddling — where you live in Omaha changes everything. A neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide for active buyers relocating to the metro.

08/18/2026

July's Omaha numbers are in, and they tell two different stories.

Median closed price: $350,000, up 4.2% from last July. Homes sold in 21 days, a day faster than a year ago, and sellers got 99.2% of list price.

Everything else was down. Closed sales fell 6.3%, pendings 5.9%, new listings 7.6%. Inventory dropped 8.4%.

Two things before you read that as bad news. The year overall is still up — closed sales are running 3.2% ahead of last year through July. And these counts get revised upward almost every month. June's closed sales were just restated from 1,347 to 1,391 after the fact. That's four months running where the first read looked worse than reality, so July's -6.3% will probably improve too.

The split I'd actually act on: new construction is carrying 5.4 months of supply. Existing homes are at 1.8. Those are two different markets. Buying new, there's room to negotiate. Selling a resale that shows well, you're still in a good spot.

Full breakdown in my monthly email: https://omahahomes.online/d8r6o5qk

08/17/2026

Five things worth your time in Omaha, and two of them are this Saturday.

Greek Festival — Aug 20-22 at St. John the Baptist on Park Ave. $6 for adults, free for kids under 12. Gyros, souvlaki, live music, and air conditioning indoors, which in August is not nothing.

Dundee Day — Saturday the 22nd on Underwood. 35th annual. Pancakes at 8, parade at 10:30, Kids Village all day, music until midnight. Free entry, all ages.

Late Nights at the Zoo — Thursdays through Aug 27, 7-10pm, 21+. Only two left.

Vala's opens Sept 4 — 42nd season.

Botna Bend Pancake Feed — Saturday Sept 5 in Hancock, Iowa. Free pancakes with syrup the park rangers tapped themselves. $3 per vehicle to get in.

Greek Fest and Dundee Day are both Saturday and they're twenty minutes apart, so you could reasonably do both.

I round this up every month in my email: https://omahahomes.online/d8r6o5qk

08/15/2026

In 1960 you could buy a brand-new house in what became La Vista for $9,999. $9 down, $99 a month. Today the cheapest new build in an Omaha subdivision is $330,000. I own one of those 1960 houses. Here's what changed:

A buyer with $280,000 can't buy new construction anywhere in Omaha. An Omaha Realtor on why, why the housing programs won't fix it, and what La Vista's $9,999 House of Nines still gets right.