August Q&A: Has the Market Outpaced Affordability?

Affordability is the topic of this month’s Real Estate 101 Series question and answer session between Lane Hornung, CEO of  8z Real Estate and John Rebchook, of Denver Real Estate Watch. Affordability. No other housing topic prompts more chatter, not only among house hunters and sellers, and their real estate brokers, but even around the […]

Downturn or Market Shift?

Home prices in the U.S. have increased for 52 straight months according to data provider Core Logic. In fact, Colorado home prices continue to set record highs. The real estate…

Mid-Year Market Review

Looking back at the first half of 2016, the real estate market has performed much as expected. In a year that has already seen a series of tumultuous events unfold…

Where’s the New Construction When We Need It?

Even though more listings are hitting the market as the prime summer selling season kicks in, an overall shortage of homes for sale remains the primary market driver pushing home…

May Q&A: Bringing a Home to Closing

18 percent of its gross sales did not close. That is up from 17 percent a year earlier. Bringing a home to closing is the topic of this month’s question and answer session between Lane Hornung, CEO of 8z Real Estate and John Rebchook of Denver Real Estate Watch. The Denver Post recently ran a […]

Clarity, Control, Confidence: Navigating the Spring Market

The spring market is in full bloom, but a lack of inventory continues to suppress the number of transactions. In other words, at most price points and locations, there are…

February Q&A: Housing Marketing vs Stock Market

Contrasting the housing market and the stock market is the jumping off point for this month’s question and answer session between John Rebchook, of Denver Real Estate Watch and Lane Hornung, Founder and CEO of 8z Real Estate.     The housing markets in already hot markets such as the Bay Area and along the […]

February Q&A: Housing Marketing vs Stock Market

A monthly conversation between Lane Hornung, President of 8z Real Estate, and John Rebchook, Editor of Denver Real Estate Watch and former real estate Editor of the Rocky Mountain News.       Consumers planning to buy or sell a home this year don’t have to look very far back to figure out what kind of […]

An Interview with 8z Founder and CEO Lane Hornung: Expanding into Multiple Markets

Last week BoomTown interviewed 8z Founder and CEO Lane Hornung about agent success in multiple markets. He boils it down to 3 steps: Step One: Power to the People: The first steps in expansion according to Hornung start with your people. When looking to expand into new markets 8z largely followed where their existing team […]

An Interview with 8z Founder and CEO Lane Hornung: Expanding into Multiple Markets

Last week BoomTown interviewed 8z Founder and CEO Lane Hornung about agent success in multiple markets. He boils it down to 3 steps: Step One: Power to the People: The first steps in expansion according to Hornung start with your people. When looking to expand into new markets 8z largely followed where their existing team […]