Realty Wise, LLC - Ana M. Chavarria, GRI, TACS

06/04/2026

The national median home listing price fell 2.4% year over year in May to $429,500, the steepest annual decline in Realtor.com data going back to 2017, as sellers shifted toward realistic pricing to attract buyers.

06/04/2026

More frustrated home sellers were giving up, right in the midst of the all-important spring market, according to new data. cnb.cx/4vsHHWr

06/04/2026

Here is the latest HAR Weekly Activity Snapshot (WAS) for the week ending June 1, 2026. More information available here - https://bit.ly/4e0XyED

06/03/2026

Ding ding 🛎️

Sellers hate hearing this, but pricing a home is not a creative writing exercise.

It's not based on the year you bought it. It's not based on the renovations you funded with a HELOC.
It's not based on the equity number you penciled into your retirement plan.
It's not based on what your brother-in-law's friend got for "basically the same house" three towns over.

It's based on one thing and one thing only: what buyers have actually paid, in your specific market, in the last 90 days, for homes that genuinely compare to yours.

That's the entire science. There is no other math.

The market is a brutal accountant.

It doesn't care how much you owe.
It doesn't care how much you spent.
It doesn't care what an algorithm projected.

It just looks at the most recent transactions and renders a verdict.

The agents you trust are the ones who walk you through that data instead of pretending your home is exempt from it.

The agents you regret hiring are the ones who agreed with whatever number got them the listing and then watched it die on the market.

One conversation hurts at the appointment. The other hurts every day for 90 days.

06/03/2026

Berkshire Hathaway agreed Sunday to buy Taylor Morrison, the nation's sixth largest homebuilder, for roughly $8.5 billion in cash, paying $72.50 per share, a 24% premium to the builder's May 29 closing price. It is one of the first major deals made under new CEO Greg Abel, who took over from Warren Buffett earlier this year.

05/31/2026

Mortgage rates aren’t the only thing keeping the housing market on ice.

Builders are facing a new round of job-site sticker shock as copper, lumber, diesel and aluminum prices climb, adding pressure to an already strained affordability equation. Tariffs, geopolitical turmoil and supply-chain snags are turning basic construction materials into moving targets — and developers say that volatility could soon show up in home prices.

For buyers, the math keeps getting harder. For builders, the ground keeps shifting.

Read more at the link in comments.

05/30/2026

Time is ticking…

The housing market is shifting in buyers' favor. Active inventory is up 8.9% compared to last year, home prices have fallen 2.4%, the biggest weekly drop on record since Realtor.com started tracking in 2018, and homes are taking six days longer to sell.

It's the third straight week of price declines, and Realtor.com economists say the slowdown "goes beyond normal seasonality." Mortgage rates are also lower than they were a year ago, with the average 30-year fixed rate at 6.11% for the week ending Feb. 5, according to Freddie Mac.

Read: https://rltor.cm/I8Q1oe

05/29/2026

05/28/2026

Here is the latest HAR Weekly Activity Snapshot (WAS) for the week ending May 25, 2026. More information available here - https://bit.ly/4v3aUqw

05/27/2026

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