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Buyers Want Energy Efficient Homes
As the cost of energy continues to rise, many home buyers today are looking for homes that are going to be easier and less expensive to run long term. Home buyers today are motivated to make energy-efficient homes a priority due to the po...
Join Our Green Initiative!
The Gibbons Group is Green! This holiday season The Gibbons Group will be giving out reusable grocery bags to kick start our Green Initiative. Throughout the next year we will be sponsoring several recycling events in an effort to help our e...
Be Thankful You Don’t Have to Pay Your Parents’ Interest Rate!
Interest rates hovered around 4% for the majority of 2017, which gave many buyers relief from rising home prices and helped with affordability. In the first quarter of 2018, rates have increased from 3.95% up to 4.45% and experts predict th...
99% of Experts Agree: Home Prices Will Increase
Some believe that the combined effects of the new tax code and rising mortgage rates will have an adverse impact on residential real estate prices in 2018. However, the clear majority of recently surveyed housing experts believe that ...
The Cost of Renting vs. Buying Today
Some Highlights: Historically, the choice between renting or buying a home has been a tough decision. Looking at the percentage of income needed to rent a median-priced home today (28.9%) vs. the percentage needed to buy a median-priced...
Not Owning Your Home Can Cost You a Lot of Money!
Owning a home has great financial benefits, yet many continue to rent! Today, let’s look at the financial reasons why owning a home of your own has been a part of the American Dream for as long as America has existed. Realtor.com recen...
Montgomery County on Shortlist for Second Amazon Headquarters
The latest news from the Bethesda Beat today is very exciting for anyone living in Montgomery County. The White Flint area made the short list of options for the new Amazon Headquarter. Even more exciting is that our area was the only pla...
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – What it Means for Homeowners and Home Buyers
The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) worked throughout the tax reform process to preserve the existing tax benefits of homeownership and real estate investment, as well to ensure as many real estate professionals as possible would b...