Meet one of our team members at Tongo – Nick Johnson. Before Tongo, Nick worked at Side, Zillow and Compass both as a broker and on the corporate side. Nick joined the Tongo team as our VP of Partnerships back in April. We asked him a few questions about Tongo and real estate:  Why did […]

 Higher mortgage rates and an increase in supply are usually supposed to put downward pressure on home prices. The numbers are in, and the housing market isn’t buying it. Which creates a valuable subtext for our industry. According to the National Association of Realtors, The median home sales price has increased almost every month this […]

In today’s edition of the Community, we’re going to try and shed some light on where the Fed says interest rates are headed and why it means even more urgency for home buyers looking to make moves right now.  Even if people get their news from the neighbor’s day-old newspaper, basically everyone knows the Federal […]

Helping clients decide on a neighborhood has become a block-by-block assessment in 2022. Some things haven’t gone away: Distance from grocery stores, the public school system if children are involved, and of course zoning issues for remodels or rebuilds. (Or the relatively new residential roadblock, “air rights.”) The pandemic brought a number of other elements […]