I think the Oklahoma City housing market has a fever.  Unfortunately, the cure ain’t “more cowbell.”  However, a good ol’ fashioned spoonful of truth would do the trick.

I’m one of those builders who likes to spend quite a bit of time in his furnished model home.  So much, in fact, I office there on weekdays, and then give my sales staff one weekend off a month so I can cover the model for the weekend.  I like keeping track of …

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Open any national news paper, web site, or business magazine and you’re likely to find a story about how the real estate market is suffering and the mortgage industry is in crisis.  “Suffering”, “crisis”, and “meltdown” are pretty sensational terms, and they certainly catch people’s attention. That’s the point when you’re trying to sell publications.  Not all real estate markets are suffering, however, and just because the mortgage industry is correcting doesn’t mean that you aren’t still able to find a great loan at a great rate to help you …

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Not even industrial-strength Windex can help in trying to wipe the smile off my face when an out-of-state buyer walks through the Jeff Click Homes Furnished Model Home in Silverhawk.  It’s something that we who have lived in Oklahoma City all our lives take for granted, but one of the many things that anyone moving here absolutely loves: the extraordinarily low cost of living and just how far the dollar goes here towards the purchase of a new home, when …

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While the 4th Of July and all the fireworks have come and gone, there’s still a boom that echoes through the Oklahoma City Metro.  Several recent stories from major national magazines have noted Oklahoma City as being a stand-out among the strongest housing markets, all but guaranteeing that the Metro is no dud when it comes to home ownership.

Until recently, most national news stories on the topic have painted a bleak picture of the real estate industry as a whole, which in my opinion has led many in the …

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I’ve begun carrying a bullhorn that clips onto my belt.  It’s the one I use to shout from the freshly-decked roof tops that the sky is not falling in the Oklahoma City Metro real estate market despite what is happening in other major, more coastal markets in Florida, California, and Arizona.  I’ve commented many times both here, and in numerous stories in the media that new homes are still a solid and reliable investment in the Oklahoma City Metro, thanks …

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I recently had the opportunity to provide some comments on the local real estate market, how the national media is affecting sales, how increases in the price of oil is affecting the price of homes, and the latest in home technologies in a recent Executive Q&A column in The Oklahoman.

A few excerpts from the column…

On the national media: With so much negative news being reported in the national media about the real estate market, blanket statements that really only apply to larger markets are …

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