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- 0:00Speaker 1: All right, welcome to Bob bart and sold in Happy
- 0:03Speaker 1: Easter to each and every one of you. Man, it
- 0:08Speaker 1: has been busy in the real estate world, and you
- 0:12Speaker 1: know how about the mortgage world. Brad Smith with Cross
- 0:15Speaker 1: Country Mortgage Bradsmith alons dot com.
- 0:18Speaker 2: That's me, uh, I mean right now that all the
- 0:21Speaker 2: talk is the rate stuff and so but we've had
- 0:23Speaker 2: a couple of improvements this week, but which is good.
- 0:27Speaker 2: But it's pretty much just kept it has but it's
- 0:31Speaker 2: just pretty much been stopping the bleeding of what we lost.
- 0:33Speaker 2: So we're still sitting in them, you know as mid sixes,
- 0:37Speaker 2: mid sixes, the mid sixes. But I think as we
- 0:41Speaker 2: start to hopefully get some traction and start freeing up
- 0:45Speaker 2: some more of the oil in the Middle East kind
- 0:48Speaker 2: of area in that I'm used, how do you chnce it?
- 0:51Speaker 2: John Straight of Harmos, as we started getting that more
- 0:56Speaker 2: flow from there, I think I think they'll come right
- 0:58Speaker 2: back down because again all the technicals are good. But anyways,
- 1:00Speaker 2: staying busy. A lot of phone calls, but it's a
- 1:02Speaker 2: lot rate a lot more back to rate driven and
- 1:05Speaker 2: wondering where we're at.
- 1:07Speaker 1: I mean, some of the things I dealt with dealt
- 1:09Speaker 1: with multiple offers this week working with buyers, and there's
- 1:15Speaker 1: you know, if it's a really well priced house and
- 1:19Speaker 1: it shows very well, it's getting a lot of eyeballs,
- 1:21Speaker 1: it's getting a lot of showings, it's getting a lot
- 1:23Speaker 1: of interest. But if you don't come out of the
- 1:25Speaker 1: gate priced right like, you might get some showings. But
- 1:30Speaker 1: I mean, we're trying to figure out and chase the
- 1:32Speaker 1: market on some of these houses, and it's it can
- 1:37Speaker 1: be a challenge for sure. Definitely, it definitely makes a
- 1:40Speaker 1: big difference when you you really if you're looking at
- 1:46Speaker 1: selling a house, it makes a big difference in the
- 1:48Speaker 1: preparation in advance of going to the market. And I
- 1:52Speaker 1: met with some folks and I mean, we're going to
- 1:55Speaker 1: get quotes on a roof because we don't really know
- 1:57Speaker 1: the age of a roof. We know it's older, we
- 2:00Speaker 1: know it doesn't look like, you know, brand new, but
- 2:04Speaker 1: and we know that a lot of people that are
- 2:06Speaker 1: especially first time home buyers, they ain't got you know,
- 2:09Speaker 1: ten fifteen twenty K to spend on a roof, So
- 2:12Speaker 1: does it make more sense to go ahead and do
- 2:14Speaker 1: that and uh, you know, go ahead and repaint on
- 2:18Speaker 1: the interior, and I think just when you do some
- 2:20Speaker 1: interior repainting, it just it helps catch some smells that
- 2:24Speaker 1: might be in there. And for sure, So I was
- 2:28Speaker 1: meeting with about a home in the Oak Mountain area,
- 2:31Speaker 1: and so we're looking at and getting you know, quote
- 2:34Speaker 1: pricing out roof and paint and all that fun stuff.
- 2:38Speaker 1: And yeah, so.
- 2:41Speaker 2: That is fun though, I mean it starts getting that
- 2:43Speaker 2: that part gets kind of kind of fun and kind
- 2:46Speaker 2: of jolt little energy there and kind of it's a
- 2:48Speaker 2: fun It's a fun change up for maybe the normal
- 2:51Speaker 2: day to day of what of what your day entails.
- 2:53Speaker 1: That's right, That's right. I mean I'm all over the place.
- 2:56Speaker 1: I mean I've I've been spending a lot of time
- 2:58Speaker 1: in the truck and heading all over town and showing houses.
- 3:03Speaker 1: The teams showing houses. I mean, like, I think we
- 3:05Speaker 1: put nine homes under contract this past week. So you know,
- 3:10Speaker 1: I got I need to get some shout outs. I mean,
- 3:14Speaker 1: Dayleen on our team. She just joined us a couple
- 3:16Speaker 1: of a couple of months ago. She put three homes
- 3:19Speaker 1: under contract this past week. She started her real estate
- 3:23Speaker 1: career in the Montgomery area, moved to Michigan for a
- 3:26Speaker 1: little bit and then moved back to Birmingham and she's
- 3:29Speaker 1: been with us for a couple of months and she's
- 3:30Speaker 1: doing a fantastic job. Tony McDaniels put one under contract.
- 3:35Speaker 1: Kyle Bedgood put three homes under contract. Kyle is just
- 3:38Speaker 1: rocking and rolling. John Riddle put one under contract. Ashley
- 3:44Speaker 1: Ashley Stagg's put one under contract. In Richie Albley put
- 3:48Speaker 1: one under contract. So we've been we've been rocking. I
- 3:51Speaker 1: love seeing so we do pipeline meetings and just going
- 3:58Speaker 1: through like everybody's everybody's deals, and I have been over
- 4:02Speaker 1: the last two months. I have been super hard on
- 4:06Speaker 1: our team, making sure that they are up to date
- 4:09Speaker 1: with everything, making sure that they don't have any past
- 4:11Speaker 1: do follow up task, making sure that they've got follow
- 4:14Speaker 1: up tasks, you know, scheduled, making sure that they've got
- 4:17Speaker 1: backgrounds and summaries on everybody. And I tell you, this
- 4:21Speaker 1: past week was the best week I've had in pipeline
- 4:26Speaker 1: meetings in the last two months.
- 4:27Speaker 2: That's awesome.
- 4:28Speaker 1: Makes a huge difference, and I can tell this is
- 4:32Speaker 1: going to really over the next two to three it
- 4:35Speaker 1: We're going to see a huge benefit in what we've
- 4:38Speaker 1: got under contract. Our closings and everything. So you know,
- 4:42Speaker 1: I'm really excited about the second quarter.
- 4:45Speaker 2: Well, it builds good habits for also for to go forward,
- 4:48Speaker 2: and so you know, hopefully you're you know again, you're
- 4:51Speaker 2: you're doing but doing a really good job of kind
- 4:53Speaker 2: of teaching them how to fish. That's right, that's right,
- 4:56Speaker 2: and not just giving them the fish. So well, we've got.
- 4:59Speaker 1: We've got some new listings that are that are coming up,
- 5:03Speaker 1: new listings that have just popped. We typically don't do
- 5:06Speaker 1: open houses on Easter Sunday, so you know, we're gonna
- 5:11Speaker 1: be spending time with our family a little bit later on,
- 5:14Speaker 1: and uh, we're gonna be rolling up to Gaston for
- 5:16Speaker 1: a little bit. Hey me too, there you go, I
- 5:19Speaker 1: might might see. You're gonna get us a little bit
- 5:21Speaker 1: of Mater's pizza. I love that place and and so yeah,
- 5:27Speaker 1: so we're taking an open house break, but we'll be
- 5:30Speaker 1: back on next week for open houses. But yeah, let's
- 5:33Speaker 1: go ahead, and let's go ahead and get the game going.
- 5:35Speaker 1: Some bride tell the rules to everybody that.
- 5:38Speaker 2: All right, Guss he's gonna go through the new listings
- 5:40Speaker 2: and he's gonna give us all the key features and
- 5:42Speaker 2: cool things about the property. But the main thing I
- 5:44Speaker 2: need to know is what is the list price of
- 5:46Speaker 2: the home. And so when Gusty lets me know what
- 5:48Speaker 2: the purchase price is, I'm gonna give a potential down
- 5:50Speaker 2: payment that the bar may make, and then Gusty and
- 5:52Speaker 2: John Mounts are going to guess their best, their best,
- 5:56Speaker 2: yo best, Yeah, hypotheses of what the payments it's going
- 6:00Speaker 2: to be on their educated guests. So thirty year fixed,
- 6:04Speaker 2: monthly principal interest only, no, no s grows, none of
- 6:07Speaker 2: that stuff.
- 6:08Speaker 1: So start off with, Hey, John, we know we're gonna
- 6:10Speaker 1: get thirty year fix. You know he's not going to
- 6:12Speaker 1: throw us some curve balls.
- 6:14Speaker 2: Well, there's only there's only a odd numbered day, so
- 6:16Speaker 2: I don't have to have a tie break or something.
- 6:18Speaker 3: But if there's two that are close together, sometimes you
- 6:20Speaker 3: have to get greeny times.
- 6:21Speaker 2: I'd usually try to manipulate the down payments a little
- 6:23Speaker 2: bit about that. We had a we had a decent
- 6:24Speaker 2: cushion here, Okay, so we're.
- 6:25Speaker 1: Going to go. Our first new listing of the week
- 6:28Speaker 1: is in the Center Point Area six one two twenty
- 6:31Speaker 1: seventh Avenue Northwest. This was built in nineteen sixty two.
- 6:35Speaker 1: Three bedrooms, two baths. It's fourteen hundred and thirty one
- 6:38Speaker 1: square feet on the main levels, and it is six hundred,
- 6:42Speaker 1: six hundred and forty eight square feet finished in the basement.
- 6:46Speaker 1: And yeah, we're asking one ninety six nine, one ninety
- 6:51Speaker 1: six nine. And this listing is courtesy of Daily in
- 6:56Speaker 1: Carters or Dailyen. Congratulations on your new by the way,
- 7:01Speaker 1: it's got a newer HVAC and a water heater, so
- 7:04Speaker 1: a little piece of mind for it.
- 7:06Speaker 2: Nice getting contracts, got a little new listings. Good job, all right,
- 7:10Speaker 2: one ninety six nine. That's right, ten percent.
- 7:13Speaker 1: Down, ten percent down. I'm gonna go with twelve hundred dollars.
- 7:24Speaker 2: Gonna go a little lower with eleven hundred. The actual
- 7:28Speaker 2: payment was one thousand, one hundred and thirty five dollars.
- 7:33Speaker 2: John Mounts gets round one. Man, it's gonna be a
- 7:37Speaker 2: tight game.
- 7:38Speaker 3: I can feel it.
- 7:38Speaker 1: Uh uh, look out, look out, all right. Our next
- 7:43Speaker 1: new listing of the week is also in center Point.
- 7:46Speaker 1: This one is twenty eight oh five second place Northwest.
- 7:50Speaker 1: This one is on almost half an acre lot not
- 7:53Speaker 1: built in nineteen sixty five. It's four bedrooms, three baths,
- 7:57Speaker 1: fifteen hundred and ninety four square feet on the main level.
- 8:00Speaker 1: Another five hundred and ninety four square feet finished in
- 8:03Speaker 1: the basement. It's got a one car garage. And uh,
- 8:09Speaker 1: we're asking to nineteen two hundred and nineteen thousand dollars.
- 8:15Speaker 1: This listing is courtesy of Tony McDaniel. So, Tony, congratulations
- 8:19Speaker 1: on your knie listing to.
- 8:21Speaker 2: Nineteen putting five percent down? Five percent and it's to John.
- 8:29Speaker 3: Yes, I'm I'm calculating. I'm calculating. I feel like Columbus.
- 8:35Speaker 3: How about a how about? No, that's too high? That
- 8:39Speaker 3: it's too high? What the heck? Fourteen hundred? I don't
- 8:44Speaker 3: think it's part too high.
- 8:47Speaker 1: M there's no telling. Let's see, I'll give the hint
- 8:53Speaker 1: of the day. You said five percent down, Yeah.
- 8:55Speaker 2: Fourteen ninety two would have been too high.
- 8:57Speaker 1: Okay, what did he say?
- 8:59Speaker 2: Fourteen hundred? I was, yeah, I was about and I
- 9:03Speaker 2: went down. So all I did is I don't think
- 9:04Speaker 2: I gave Gusty a huge there. But I'll just letting
- 9:06Speaker 2: you know that you were you were right to go
- 9:07Speaker 2: down from there.
- 9:08Speaker 1: Oh lord, Okay, Now I feel like you've just confused me.
- 9:14Speaker 1: I feel like you just threw me a curveball.
- 9:16Speaker 2: Well, you know if John gets to win because of it,
- 9:18Speaker 2: you know, I get.
- 9:20Speaker 3: The feeling your root for me.
- 9:21Speaker 1: I think just to sit guy, definitely, I didn't know
- 9:23Speaker 1: that was a hundred, so I mean it's like, uh, man,
- 9:30Speaker 1: isn't this your business? Though? I mean it is, but
- 9:32Speaker 1: he just he's just messing with me, and I don't
- 9:34Speaker 1: like it.
- 9:34Speaker 2: It's getting that psyche a little bit.
- 9:39Speaker 1: Man, Why did you do that?
- 9:40Speaker 2: It have really impacted you at all. You weren't going
- 9:43Speaker 2: to fifteen hundred.
- 9:44Speaker 1: I was not going to fifteen hundred. But I don't, man,
- 9:48Speaker 1: I am thinking it's thirteen sixty one.
- 9:52Speaker 2: Thirteen sixty one. The actual payment was thirteen thirty eight.
- 9:56Speaker 2: Gusty gets around too.
- 10:01Speaker 3: He's been pretty tight so far.
- 10:03Speaker 2: Yeah, one to one with the one property to.
- 10:05Speaker 1: Go, all right. Our last new listing of the week
- 10:07Speaker 1: is in Odinville twenty one ninety Summit Park Road. This
- 10:11Speaker 1: was built in twenty nineteen on almost three quarters of
- 10:15Speaker 1: an acre lot, three bedrooms, two baths. It's a one
- 10:18Speaker 1: level brick home with a two car garage, fourteen hundred
- 10:22Speaker 1: and sixty six square feet and we're asking to eighty
- 10:24Speaker 1: nine to nine to eighty nine to none and man
- 10:30Speaker 1: here's what's crazy. Saint Clair County taxes all right, two
- 10:34Speaker 1: eighty nine nine. Guess what the taxes are on this thing?
- 10:37Speaker 2: Seven hundred bucks?
- 10:38Speaker 1: What do you think, John, I'm I'm doing the game behind, you.
- 10:41Speaker 3: Know, behind the game. Well that's the asking price, but
- 10:44Speaker 3: that's not what it's valued at though. That's right, right,
- 10:47Speaker 3: So it's hard to say for sure, But I don't know.
- 10:49Speaker 1: A thousand bucks seven hundred and forty seven bucks for taxes.
- 10:53Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, yeah, I mean, I got I got
- 10:54Speaker 3: to get out of Jefferson County.
- 10:57Speaker 1: So this one's got granite countertimes, has got the lv
- 11:00Speaker 1: HE flooring, and they're willing to do a little bit
- 11:02Speaker 1: of a carpet allowance too, so that's nice. This listening
- 11:06Speaker 1: is courtesy of Carla Diliberto and it is two eighty
- 11:09Speaker 1: nine to nine, two eighty nine to nine.
- 11:13Speaker 2: Twoty nine nine, five percent down back to start with gusty. Okay,
- 11:19Speaker 2: this is for the game.
- 11:20Speaker 1: For the game, five percent down.
- 11:26Speaker 2: And this has nothing to do with Christopher Columbus.
- 11:29Speaker 1: No, definitely, not.
- 11:31Speaker 3: Much later than Christopher Columbus or earlier or earlier. I
- 11:35Speaker 3: don't want to.
- 11:42Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. Seventeen thirty one.
- 11:48Speaker 3: I'm feeling patriotic. Seventeen seventy six.
- 11:50Speaker 2: I thought he might do it. The actual payment was
- 11:53Speaker 2: seventeen sixty four.
- 11:55Speaker 1: Oh my, yes, it's an Eastern racle.
- 11:59Speaker 2: Once he went that route before, I was like, he
- 12:01Speaker 2: may go seventeen seventy six here.
- 12:03Speaker 3: And I don't know many days.
- 12:04Speaker 1: So that's funny. Well, John Winsdaday, look out. Congratulations John.
- 12:12Speaker 1: You know it's been a few months since you won.
- 12:14Speaker 1: So there you go.
- 12:15Speaker 3: Even a blind bunny can sometimes find an egg. That's right.
- 12:18Speaker 2: Hey, the first one of twenty twenty six. No, I
- 12:22Speaker 2: couldn't have started. Remember when that when that listen, I
- 12:25Speaker 2: can't live aready in April.
- 12:26Speaker 1: So hey, we've got we've got some coming soons in Birmingham.
- 12:32Speaker 1: We've got coming soons and mccallough. We've got coming soons
- 12:36Speaker 1: in Homewood. We've got coming soons in Adamsville. Actually, we've
- 12:41Speaker 1: got a new price in Adamsville, forty seven forty seventeen
- 12:44Speaker 1: Flower Street. We got a new price of one hundred
- 12:47Speaker 1: and thirty five thousand. That's a three bedroom, one bath
- 12:49Speaker 1: with one thousand and fifty square feet. And we've also
- 12:52Speaker 1: got a new price in Penson on sixty eight thirteen
- 12:55Speaker 1: Sandmore Drive, three bedrooms, two baths, thirteen and twenty one
- 12:59Speaker 1: square feet at one hundred and ninety five thousand. So
- 13:02Speaker 1: we've got some vip by our needs. We've got somebody
- 13:06Speaker 1: looking in the Griffin Park or Eagle Point neighborhood four bedrooms,
- 13:09Speaker 1: three baths up to six hundred thousand. I've got somebody
- 13:12Speaker 1: looking in the Cabba Heights or Vestavia neighborhood or Vestavia
- 13:17Speaker 1: City town home up to three hundred thousand. I've got
- 13:20Speaker 1: somebody looking in the Leeds Moody or pel City area
- 13:23Speaker 1: up to one hundred and fifty thousand. I've got somebody
- 13:26Speaker 1: looking for a four bedroom, three bath with a large
- 13:29Speaker 1: garage or basement and near Vestavia, Liberty Park, Mountain Brook areas,
- 13:34Speaker 1: so kind of that Cabba Heights Little Cove area up
- 13:38Speaker 1: to seven hundred thousand. I've got somebody looking austin Liberty Park,
- 13:42Speaker 1: Vestavia up to five sixty. I've got people looking at Edgewood.
- 13:45Speaker 1: I've got folks kind of looking a little bit everywhere.
- 13:48Speaker 2: If you've got a house, Gus, you probably almost to buy. Go.
- 13:51Speaker 1: You can call us at two five five, four to
- 13:53Speaker 1: two nineteen ninety six. You can also go to gustygoulisgroup
- 13:56Speaker 1: dot com. We'd love to have a conversation with you
- 13:58Speaker 1: and build a plan of action together and go from there. Hey,
- 14:02Speaker 1: guess what time it is. That's right, it's testimonial time. Hey,
- 14:09Speaker 1: we've got a couple of reviews today that we're gonna share.
- 14:12Speaker 1: The first one is from mister Conwane. I had the
- 14:15Speaker 1: pleasure of working with Gusty, found him one of the
- 14:18Speaker 1: found him one of the best person to work with.
- 14:21Speaker 1: He not only helped us during initial property buying time,
- 14:24Speaker 1: but continue to help us still for any question in
- 14:27Speaker 1: any help I need, especially that I do not live
- 14:30Speaker 1: in the same town. He's extremely responsible and professional. Well
- 14:34Speaker 1: mister Kanwaanni, thank you for the opportunity to help you
- 14:37Speaker 1: on your new place. And hey myself, congratulations on another
- 14:43Speaker 1: five star reviews. That's right, that's right. And last but
- 14:46Speaker 1: not least, oh another one for me. Oh, this is
- 14:50Speaker 1: from miss Cruiser. I worked with Gusty of the Gusty
- 14:52Speaker 1: Gillis Group to sell my home. He was fantastic. His
- 14:57Speaker 1: group was very organized, professional and fast. That's selling my home.
- 15:01Speaker 1: I would definitely use them again. So this cruiser, Thank
- 15:04Speaker 1: you so much for the opportunity to sell your house.
- 15:07Speaker 1: And hey myself, congratulations.
- 15:09Speaker 2: On another five star review.
- 15:13Speaker 1: We like them five star reviews, ladies and gentlemen, buddy.
- 15:16Speaker 1: All right, all right, y'all, stay tuned. Hey, we're gonna
- 15:19Speaker 1: go to break. We're gonna talk a little bit more
- 15:21Speaker 1: about what we're seeing on the mortgage side, the real
- 15:23Speaker 1: estate side in this market of Birmingham right here on
- 15:26Speaker 1: bob Burn and Sold. Stay tuned, all right, welcome back
- 15:31Speaker 1: to bob Burn and Sould. Thank you for joining us
- 15:33Speaker 1: each and every Sunday talking about Birmingham, Alabama real estate,
- 15:38Speaker 1: what we're seeing in the real estate market, what we're
- 15:41Speaker 1: seeing in the mortgage world, also with Cross Country Mortgage.
- 15:46Speaker 1: Brad Smith, So, I know we touched on a little
- 15:49Speaker 1: bit on our you know first break, our first you
- 15:53Speaker 1: know segment. But rates, you know, we've seen a big
- 15:57Speaker 1: difference over the last month with the War of Irans started,
- 16:00Speaker 1: and and we've seen rates go up about what half
- 16:04Speaker 1: percent a little bit more than that yep. Any and
- 16:08Speaker 1: you said a little bit of movement, yep, this week
- 16:10Speaker 1: we've seen.
- 16:11Speaker 2: Yeah, so we've gotten it back down. Let's just yeah,
- 16:14Speaker 2: we're we're settling more into six and a half now,
- 16:17Speaker 2: where we may have been a little bit above it
- 16:19Speaker 2: last week. Yeah, and so a lot of that is
- 16:22Speaker 2: just becoming from some you know, a lot of it
- 16:26Speaker 2: is you know, what what's the what's the temperature of
- 16:28Speaker 2: the conversations and stuff. So so with with Trump making
- 16:31Speaker 2: a couple of announcements and some different stuff coming on
- 16:34Speaker 2: the news, you know, like I said, with with it
- 16:36Speaker 2: looking like we're going to start freeing up some more
- 16:38Speaker 2: of the oil. Oil prices come down. That's normally when
- 16:41Speaker 2: the mortgage mortgage bonds usually kind of follow that trade
- 16:44Speaker 2: and kind of and kind of, well they go up,
- 16:47Speaker 2: so the rates come down, and so it's really just
- 16:50Speaker 2: freeing up that that extra cash that's going into oil
- 16:53Speaker 2: prices to go back into the bonds and stock market.
- 16:56Speaker 2: So basically it's like it's basically saying, we're taking this
- 16:59Speaker 2: money from here and putting it there, so we need
- 17:01Speaker 2: to get that leveled back out. And it will and
- 17:04Speaker 2: we're you know, job market's still okay, it's not great.
- 17:08Speaker 2: We see that coming inflation slowing down that we're still
- 17:12Speaker 2: getting good reports on that. So the technicals are still
- 17:14Speaker 2: showing where we were thinking we would be sometime in
- 17:17Speaker 2: the summer down in the mid five's ish, So you know,
- 17:20Speaker 2: it's kind of the things like that, those things aren't
- 17:22Speaker 2: not happening just because this is going on. So as
- 17:25Speaker 2: we get good news now, it kind of it does
- 17:28Speaker 2: start to take back down. And then once we kind
- 17:30Speaker 2: of free that back up, hopefully to see kind of
- 17:32Speaker 2: a you know, this one will be in a little
- 17:34Speaker 2: bit more inflated because of a true world event. I
- 17:39Speaker 2: do think we'll see it come back down a little quicker. Okay,
- 17:42Speaker 2: what I was going to ask, once we have that
- 17:44Speaker 2: short up and it's just going to follow the oil prices,
- 17:47Speaker 2: I mean, I mean one hundred percent can tell you
- 17:50Speaker 2: when you're when you're looking at the gas pumps and
- 17:52Speaker 2: they start coming back down, that mortgage rates are coming
- 17:55Speaker 2: with them. So I mean that. I mean the ten
- 17:57Speaker 2: year too. But the ten uere hasn't been quite as
- 17:59Speaker 2: te us worthy because that margin between the two has
- 18:02Speaker 2: been because there's been so many random things going on
- 18:04Speaker 2: that that impact our economy opposed to worldwide economy, and
- 18:07Speaker 2: then some events like this, so that margin has been
- 18:10Speaker 2: changing a little bit, so they're not necessarily in a
- 18:13Speaker 2: true one on one correlation right now, maybe where they
- 18:16Speaker 2: have been in the past. So but I'm telling you
- 18:19Speaker 2: you can. You can you can go by a gas
- 18:20Speaker 2: station see what the prices are doing, and you can
- 18:22Speaker 2: you can have an idea of what mortgage rates are
- 18:24Speaker 2: going up or down. I say, where they are, but
- 18:27Speaker 2: you can know what direction, right Yeah, Well, I mean
- 18:30Speaker 2: then that's that's that's that's always been the case.
- 18:33Speaker 3: Have you.
- 18:33Speaker 1: I mean, you've been doing this like twenty years yep.
- 18:36Speaker 1: Just I mean, just like me. I got my license
- 18:38Speaker 1: to soel real estate in two thousand and six. I
- 18:41Speaker 1: did mortgages actually for a couple of years before that.
- 18:44Speaker 1: Do you ever remember a time where it actually, you know,
- 18:46Speaker 1: we talk about rates going up fast, but typically they
- 18:49Speaker 1: come back down very slowly. Is there anything that kind
- 18:54Speaker 1: of you know, just any times that they've come down quick?
- 18:59Speaker 2: Oh, covid Covin. I mean when that, when that started happening,
- 19:03Speaker 2: I mean they just I mean, I mean they were
- 19:06Speaker 2: just bottoming out there. I mean it was almost like,
- 19:08Speaker 2: you know, you start looking at Wolf of Wall Street
- 19:10Speaker 2: and the phone's ring and I can remember not being
- 19:12Speaker 2: not being allowed to leave the house. Yeah, and my
- 19:15Speaker 2: phone not stop ringing all day, and if I talked
- 19:18Speaker 2: to you at nine o'clock in the morning and quoted
- 19:20Speaker 2: you were eight, it was probably lower that afternoon. And
- 19:23Speaker 2: if I mean significantly, and if I locked you that
- 19:26Speaker 2: morning and you called me back that afternoon, you know.
- 19:29Speaker 2: But but here's the good news. They were jumping ship
- 19:31Speaker 2: and one another lender because it had dropped you know,
- 19:33Speaker 2: three three eighths of a percent in four hours. Wow.
- 19:38Speaker 2: But the good news is that I was getting there.
- 19:39Speaker 2: Is they locked you know what I mean, we were
- 19:41Speaker 2: we were all trading borrowers or but but I mean
- 19:44Speaker 2: it was it was I mean we went from I
- 19:48Speaker 2: mean we think we ended up at like two and
- 19:49Speaker 2: a half four two point six two five for a
- 19:51Speaker 2: little bit. But I mean we we went from four
- 19:52Speaker 2: and a half to low threes within a couple of
- 19:56Speaker 2: maybe a couple of weeks. I mean that was that
- 19:58Speaker 2: and that was a huge jump. But it was just
- 20:00Speaker 2: I mean, people were buying more houses, people were refinancing
- 20:03Speaker 2: their house, then buying a house, and then refinancing that house.
- 20:06Speaker 2: I mean, but that was that was the most That
- 20:08Speaker 2: was the quickest I can remember. It just just constantly
- 20:12Speaker 2: just continuing to drop, drop, drop.
- 20:14Speaker 1: Well and then when race got that low, you know,
- 20:17Speaker 1: then that's when you see prices accelerate, right.
- 20:20Speaker 2: Because you mean, think about money was so cheap. Money
- 20:22Speaker 2: was so cheap, I mean you put so many more people,
- 20:25Speaker 2: had so much more buying power, right, and and then
- 20:29Speaker 2: wouldn't like a lot like we see now people were
- 20:31Speaker 2: buying people instead of selling, they refinancing their current house.
- 20:35Speaker 2: And so going back to prices going up, they weren't
- 20:39Speaker 2: selling their current house, they were refinancing it as a
- 20:41Speaker 2: primary living in another six months then decided to buy
- 20:44Speaker 2: something and leaving that as a rental. So not only
- 20:47Speaker 2: do we have more people with more buying power, we
- 20:49Speaker 2: had less people selling because they were keeping their current
- 20:51Speaker 2: using as a rental because the margin was so good,
- 20:54Speaker 2: and so it just did keep increasing values. So it's
- 20:57Speaker 2: been pretty impressive, honestly, with rapes going up, that we've
- 21:00Speaker 2: continue to keep an appreciation going in that you know,
- 21:03Speaker 2: anywhere between four, five, six seven percent, depending on where
- 21:06Speaker 2: you are. Seeing that key continue throughout has been pretty
- 21:08Speaker 2: impressive really to think about that eighteen month stretch of
- 21:12Speaker 2: where and we're I'm gonna say that we got them inflated,
- 21:15Speaker 2: but it was a little artificial market there for a
- 21:16Speaker 2: little bit.
- 21:17Speaker 1: I'll tell you it's it's interesting. We've I feel like
- 21:21Speaker 1: obviously it really depends on what part of town you're in, right,
- 21:25Speaker 1: but I mean we've got some areas that have seen massive,
- 21:29Speaker 1: massive appreciation. I mean we talk about Homewood. Homewoods seen
- 21:32Speaker 1: a massive appreciation the last couple of years, Mountain Brook,
- 21:35Speaker 1: you know, a lot of the over the mountain areas
- 21:37Speaker 1: have seen massive appreciation when typical appreciation is not going up,
- 21:42Speaker 1: like like you know, what we would typically see.
- 21:45Speaker 2: National average is sitting around two two and a half
- 21:46Speaker 2: percent last year year every year. But still again that's impressed,
- 21:49Speaker 2: which are about the whole country average. But yeah, I mean,
- 21:53Speaker 2: I mean yeah, but we definitely see in our markets
- 21:56Speaker 2: and some of these markets even being on a whole
- 21:58Speaker 2: nother level of that of that percentage. Yeah, heck, we
- 22:02Speaker 2: both live in Homewood and kind of know how that
- 22:03Speaker 2: that war is. And you you you dabble in all
- 22:06Speaker 2: those markets a lot.
- 22:07Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, it's And I'll tell you it's interesting, like,
- 22:10Speaker 1: I mean, we have multiple offer situation. I'm waiting to
- 22:12Speaker 1: find out, you know, what's going to happen. But I mean,
- 22:14Speaker 1: this is a multiple offer situation, I will say, they
- 22:17Speaker 1: prepared this house really really nice in the narrows down
- 22:21Speaker 1: you know, Oak Mountain area, like you're going to stare
- 22:25Speaker 1: at Chelsea area and I've got a I've got a
- 22:29Speaker 1: fantastic couple that we're working with that you know, just
- 22:32Speaker 1: wants you know, moving ready, and uh, I know, at
- 22:37Speaker 1: least three offers, but we're coming in strong cash. No
- 22:40Speaker 1: inspection contingency went overless prize, but they had everything looking
- 22:47Speaker 1: spotless on this house, I mean, updated, just an incredible
- 22:51Speaker 1: So I'm hoping we're gonna get some good news. But
- 22:55Speaker 1: you know, and then I've got homes I've been on
- 22:57Speaker 1: the market sixty days.
- 22:58Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, So.
- 23:00Speaker 1: It does depend. Like every area is different, every house
- 23:03Speaker 1: is different. So you know, I will say, like, you know,
- 23:08Speaker 1: if you have an idea of like just kind of
- 23:10Speaker 1: ballparking thinking about selling your house, let's just have a conversation.
- 23:14Speaker 2: Yeah, just talk about it.
- 23:16Speaker 1: Let's see if like does it make sense now, does
- 23:19Speaker 1: it make sense later on the year, next year, Like,
- 23:22Speaker 1: it's not gonna hurt having conversations. So you can always
- 23:26Speaker 1: go to gustygoulisgroup dot com or you can shoot us
- 23:29Speaker 1: text two A five five four two nineteen ninety six.
- 23:33Speaker 1: You can call us there too, Brad, thank you again
- 23:36Speaker 1: for of course being on. If you need to get
- 23:40Speaker 1: pre qualified for a mortage, go to Brad Smith Loans
- 23:43Speaker 1: that come all right, Thanks so much, hope you have
- 23:45Speaker 1: an amazing easter. We'll catch you next time.