Case-Shiller Home Price Index is standard, but poor Published: Sat, Feb 4, 2012 | Leave a comment Multistate loan officer for Waterstone Mortgage Corporation of Cincinnati speaks out against the reliability of a commonly used home price index. Read More

Baylor University real estate report leaves a (single-family) lot to be desired Published: Sat, Jan 28, 2012 | Leave a comment Baylor's online Keller Center Research Report might serve to let real estate agents know about certain academic real estate journal articles, but one three-page summary report fails to live up to its billing. Read More

Some real estate statistics require a side order of salt — or at least context Published: Sat, Jan 14, 2012 | Leave a comment Sometimes you just can't trust the real estate statistics. It helps to be able to place the details into context with reality. Read More

Facebook makes Greyhound fun from Houston to Oklahoma City Published: Sat, Jan 7, 2012 | Leave a comment By the way, there is an awful lot of real estate between Oklahoma City and Houston. Read More

We got an early grandbaby for Christmas Published: Sun, Dec 25, 2011 | Leave a comment Oklahoman Real Estate Editor Richard Mize writes that Facebook has been a social media lifeline for out-of-state grandparents to keep in touch with Baby Avery and her extended family in Texas. Read More

Commercialization of Christmas finally gets Linus Published: Sat, Dec 24, 2011 | Leave a comment Charlie Brown bemoaned the rampant commercialization of Christmas. Linus kept the reason in the season, but a press syndicate keeps his face under wraps. Read More

Christmas movies have common theme: Home Published: Sat, Dec 17, 2011 | Leave a comment A whiff of ozone here, a wobbly newel post there. Christmas movies heavy on home are on heavy rotation. Just don't shoot your eye out. Read More

Downtown Oklahoma City sparks trip down downtown Memory Lane Published: Sat, Dec 10, 2011 | Leave a comment Skinny Pendergrass in Muldrow; Hunt's Department Store, Olde Town Grain & Feed and Tip Top Western Wear in Fort Smith, Ark.; Caravan Books in Stillwater; “Big Blue” and Casa Manana in Wichita Falls, Texas ... memories come flooding in with one afternoon spent digging up real estate bones in downtown Oklahoma City. Read More

Edmond Realtor sees recovery for metro area in 2012 Published: Sat, Dec 3, 2011 | Leave a comment Victoria Caldwell her role as a Realtor, as a real estate brokerage owner, as president of the Oklahoma City Metro Association of Realtors — and last week for the first time as managing broker of RE/MAX Associates in Edmond and member of the Edmond City Council. Read More

Challenge grant may help fund rebuilding of barracks at Oklahoma's historic Fort Washita Published: Sat, Nov 26, 2011 | Leave a comment The barracks at Oklahoma's historic Fort Washita was covered by the state's self-insurance, but only up to $250,000 and over $1 million, and for original cost, not replacement cost. Rebuilding it, with restrooms and handicapped accessibility this time, is estimated to cost $1.2 million to $1.5 million. That leaves... Read More

Oklahoma mortgage bill comes with chest pain, courtesy of Wells Fargo Published: Sat, Nov 19, 2011 | Leave a comment A missing digit caused a series of house payments to be applied backward, instead of forward, until the lender fired off a notice of default. Or did it? Read More