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Real estate agents warily watch COVID-19 cases rise, hoping another industry shutdown doesn’t follow

August 27, 2021 admin

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are rising, mask mandates are back, and this stage of the pandemic is starting to feel like last year. Home buyers and sellers and their agents are hoping this all doesn’t mean another restriction will come back.

Early in the pandemic, while Pennsylvania allowed other businesses to continue in-person operations with safety measures in place, the governor deemed real estate nonessential and halted many in-person activities.

That restriction helped stall the usually busy spring real estate market and the momentum that had been building since the winter. So agents are warily watching as the coronavirus spreads

Real Estate

The ZIP Codes to Watch in Real Estate

August 20, 2021 admin

During the pandemic, home prices in cities and towns across the country have been rising. But what does that trend look like if you dig down to the ZIP code level to get a granular view of where the action is? Realtor.com did just that in its annual report on the hottest ZIP codes in U.S. real estate.

The site compared listings active from January 2021 to June 2021, across 30,000 ZIP codes, using two metrics: demand, measured by the number of unique individuals clicking into property listings on Realtor.com; and time on the market, or how long homes took

Real Estate

Spring rains had garden downsides. Watch for summer diseases

August 3, 2021 admin

Heavy springtime rains caused problems in the garden. Leaf spot disease, as the name implies, shows up as a circular lesion, as on this anemone.

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Growing up on a Kansas farm, the weather was a daily topic of discussion. Rain, no rain, hot or dry: The work on the farm depended on the forecast. After I moved away, my sons knew when Grandma and Grandpa Patton called, the conversation always included the weather and the coinciding tasks on the farm.

Even though I am in the city now, the weather is still a daily topic of conversation.

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