Published in Anchorage Daily New on 7.24.24 By Connie Yoshimura Let’s pretend for the next 600 words that we are a first time home buyer family wanting to purchase a single family home in Anchorage. We’ve outgrown our two bedroom apartment Continue Reading
Why Building 1,000 New Housing Units Will Take time and Collaboration
By Connie Yoshimura Anchorage has a long road ahead of them to reach an annual goal of 1,000 new housing units in the coming years. Over the last seven years, Anchorage has averaged only 376 permits, including single family, duplex or multi-family. Continue Reading
Future of Anchorage Housing Hangs on Urgent Need for Affordability Solutions
By Connie Yoshimura Anchorage housing continues its first-class trajectory resulting in more and more buyers shut out of the market. According to MLS statistics, the first five months of 2024 showed an 11.95% increase in closed volume but only a 4.01% Continue Reading
What Home Buyers Really Want…..Continued
Published in Anchorage Daily News on 5.15.2024 By Connie Yoshimura Housing affordability has buckled under the weight of a 30% increase in home prices, according to a National Association of Home Builders 2024 study. Here in Continue Reading
What Home Buyers Really Want
Published in the Anchorage Daily News on 4.25.2024 By Connie Yoshimura The National Association of Home Builders has published a 2024 study on what buyers are looking for in their homes and communities including what amenities are trending and the Continue Reading
… … A Ramble … on Housing … … …
Published in the Anchorage Daily News on 3.21.24 By Connie Yoshimura I have been very fortunate over the past few decades to work for buyers and sellers who have benefited from home ownership as a stepping stone to financial stability. Over 23% of Continue Reading
An Overlooked Market Opportunity
Published in Anchorage Daily News on 11.29.2023 I have often wondered why first-time home buyers don’t consider purchasing a duplex as their first home. You can live in one unit and 75% of the gross rental income from the other unit can be used for qualifying Continue Reading
Are Anchorage Home Values Stalled?
And the answer is no due to a continuing depletion of available homes for sale. Whether that stall floats along for the remainder of the year or dips downward depends not so much on mortgage interest rates but available inventory. So, unless Continue Reading
A Love Affair Gone North
I love Anchorage (although I instruct our realtors never to use that verb when describing a home) ‘love’ is the appropriate word for my feelings about my adopted hometown. I arrived in Anchorage in 1979; took Cal Winey’s real estate class and the rest is Continue Reading
A Stable Residential Market for the Rest of 2023
According to Rob Kreiger in the Alaska’s Economic Trends’ May issue, “the market may cool off but a price collapse is unlikely.” Published by the Department of Labor and WorkForce Development, the research and analysis of Alaska’s housing market provides insight Continue Reading
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