Hello Mansy Group friends and community! I can't believe it's already fall. I hope that you've had a chance to get out and enjoy the gorgeous turning of the leaves for which our Pacific Northwest region is so aptly known.

We had a fabulous time at our Pie Giveaway event, showering you all with gifts and delicious pies and catching up with you! These events are incredibly fun for us because it really is great to see our past clients as well as the people that we are currently helping; it means the world to us to have you guys there!

We continue to add amazing people to our team, and we're so excited to welcome some smiling new faces, whom you can read more about here. Please help us welcome them to our ever-growing team to provide more excellent service to you and your friends and family!

I've heard some questions about the market. All I can say is, it is my personal opinion and that of many industry leaders that there isn't really a wrong time to buy a home, especially if it's a place you're going to live in for a number of years. But there definitely are some times in the marketplace when selling a home would not be the best idea.

So for our buyers: yes, the interest rates are challenging. But our lenders have incredible Rate Buy-Down programs and other things and we have been able to get really great purchase discounts on a number of homes for our buyers throughout all of 2023. We are still making headway in that regard even with the short supply of housing.

Our sellers have done well because, again, we do have a short supply of housing, especially in our Pacific Northwest region. Many of our sellers have been able to get full price offers on their homes, or very close to that or sometimes over, within the first couple of weeks on market. We have had some sellers that it's taken a few weeks longer, but we have been effective at clearing out all of our sellers’ home inventory this year.

We are looking positively into 2024, where we will expect to see some interest rate reduction happening slowly throughout the year. In anticipation of that, we are making sure that we have all of the tools and the team in place to assist you as our market resurges potentially in 2024.

In the meantime, we are here to give you property evaluations or to get you qualified through our partner lenders for any purchases you'd like to make, and to help come up with Creative Solutions for any and all of your real estate goals. Have an amazing fall, and enjoy this gorgeous time of year!