{"id":54,"date":"2009-07-24T09:48:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T16:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/?p=54"},"modified":"2009-07-24T09:48:59","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T16:48:59","slug":"housing-experts-now-is-a-perfect-time-to-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/housing-experts-now-is-a-perfect-time-to-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Experts: Now Is a Perfect Time to Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t forget to remind potential buyers of something that is obvious to real estate professionals: Now is the time to buy, but that opportunity may be slipping away. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">For people who have a job and money, a dream house is within reach, writes Marc Roth, founder of Home Warranty of America and a columnist for BusinessWeek. <!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">He points out that mortgage rates remain low, prices are still at historic lows, and the government is offering incentives for first-time homebuyers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">He also adds that the inventory of homes to buy is still large, but it is shrinking. According to the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS\u00c2\u00ae, the housing inventory peaked in November 2008 at an 11-month supply. At the end of May 2009, it had fallen to a 9.6-month supply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realtor.org\/pac.nsf\/pages\/pachome\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Roth says anyone who dallies will miss a good opportunity to buy a first home at a terrific price or go shopping for a move-up property that is a great buy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Source: BusinessWeek.com, Marc Roth (11\/17\/2009)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t forget to remind potential buyers of something that is obvious to real estate professionals: Now is the time to buy, but that opportunity may be slipping away. For people who have a job and money, a dream house is within reach, writes Marc Roth, founder of Home Warranty of America and a columnist for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/housing-experts-now-is-a-perfect-time-to-buy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Housing Experts: Now Is a Perfect Time to Buy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1597],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}