Joe Rand, our Editor-in-Chief and lead contributor is the Chief Creative Officer at Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty.
He is the founder of the “Client-Oriented Real Estate” (“CORE”) school of real estate education, based on the idea that real estate agents should build their business by learning how to be great at the job of helping clients buy and sell homes.
He has been a featured speaker and moderator at Real Estate Connect, the RIS Media CEO Conference, the Women’s Council of REALTORS Annual Conference, and many other industry events.
He is a regular contributor to Inman Media, writing about industry issues mostly relating to agent education and client service.
He is a graduate of Georgetown University, Georgetown Law Center, Stanford Law School, and a former law professor at Brooklyn Law School and Fordham Law School.
He lives in Nyack, New York with his wife and two children.
I have always hated it when real estate professionals say “it’s a great time to buy.” It always seems so self-serving, and I know it immediately causes suspicion. So I’m not going to SAY that it’s a great time to buy a home right now. I’m just going to show you. Specifically, I’m going to show you that the monthly payment you need to make to buy an averaged priced home in Westchester and the Hudson Valley is about as […]
Read MoreThe Sussex County housing market surged again in the first quarter of 2016, with a dramatic spike in sales that continued a long.term trend of markedly higher transaction rates. Nevertheless, we are still not seeing these sustained levels of buyer demand have their expected impact on pricing, which was down yet again. Sales. Sussex sales were up sharply in the first quarter, rising over 32% from last year and finishing the year up almost 23%. This continued a trend that […]
Read MoreThe Essex County housing market started the year strong, with a surge of sales activity. But even with demand up, prices went down sharply, indicating that the county has not yet developed into a “seller’s market.” Sales. Essex County sales were up sharply in the first quarter, rising over 13% for the quarter, marking the fifth straight quarter of year on year sales growth. The long.term trend is also encouraging, with sales up over 10% for the rolling.year and now […]
Read MoreThe Morris County housing market recovered from some late 2015 doldrums to post a robust start to 2016, with a spike in sales. Even with this surge in activity, though, pricing was disappointing. Sales. Morris County sales were up sharply in the first quarter, rising almost 17% for the quarter, marking the sixth straight quarter of year-on-year sales growth. The long-term trend is also encouraging, with sales up over 9% for the rolling year and now regularly clearing over 5,500 […]
Read MoreThe Passaic County housing market started off 2016 with an increase in sales coupled with mixed results in pricing. Most indicators, though, signal that Passaic continues to develop as a classic “seller’s market” that will likely drive sales and prices up through the rest of the year. Sales. Passaic sales were up again in the first quarter of 2016, rising over 8% from last year and finishing the rolling year up almost 11%. Indeed, we’ve now seen sustained increases in […]
Read MoreThe Bergen County housing market started 2016 off strong, with sales way up and clear indications of increasing buyer demand. Sales. Bergen single-family home sales started the year with a flourish, rising over 19% for the quarter and marking the sixth straight quarter of year-on-year sales increases. Indeed, we are starting to see transactions at “seller market” levels, with over 6,000 sales over the rolling year, which is comparable to the sales totals during the last seller’s market. Prices. Although […]
Read MoreThe Northern New Jersey housing market got off to a strong start in 2016, with sales up again throughout the region. But this sustained surge in buyer demand is not yet having any real impact on pricing, which was flat or down in each of the counties. Sales were up over 10% for the region, rising in every county in the Report. Closings have now been trending up for about five years, ever since the market stabilized after the correction […]
Read MoreThe Dutchess County housing market started the year with a massive spike in sales activity, which had only a modest impact on pricing. Sales. Dutchess County single.family home sales surged again in the first quarter, with transactions up a whopping 43% from last year. This marked the sixth quarter in a row with year on year sales increases, leading to a rolling year where sales were up almost 30%. With 2,300 sales over the rolling year, Dutchess is now closing […]
Read MorePutnam County sales and prices both spiked in the first quarter of 2016, with transactions again reaching levels we have not seen in over 10 years. Sales. Putnam sales surged again in the first quarter, with single.family home sales spiking over 35% compared to last year and now up over 21% for the rolling year. Sales have now been going up for over four years, with transactions up in seven straight quarters and 15 out of the last 16. With […]
Read MoreThe Orange County housing market finally showed the long awaited signs of meaningful price appreciation in the first quarter of 2016, with prices up significantly for the first time in almost 10 years. Sales. Orange sales were up yet again, rising 31% from last year and now up over 28% for the rolling year. This was nothing new – we have now seen sustained increases in Orange transactions for almost four years, with sales up six quarters in a row […]
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