Ashley Renn Real Estate Agent

Ashley Renn

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Which Energy Upgrades Are Actually Worth It? What Lowers Your Bills, What Buyers Notice, and What Can Wait

By Ashley Renn - October 22, 2026
For the past few years, a lot of the advice about energy upgrades started with federal tax credits. Insulation, heat pumps, new windows, and solar panels could all qualify for a credit worth up to 30% of the cost.1,2 Those credits have ended for projects completed in 2026,3 though some older guides still describe them as available. That actually makes the decision clearer. Without a credit tippin
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Sell It or Rent It Out? How to Decide What to Do With Your Home When You Move

By Ashley Renn - September 26, 2026
For most people, moving has come with an assumption built in: you sell the house you're leaving and put the proceeds toward the one you're buying. The only real question is what it will sell for. For more owners this year, that assumption is loosening. The question showing up isn't just "what will it sell for" but "should I sell it at all, or keep it and rent it out?" It's a fair question, and th
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How AI Is Changing the Home Search — and How to Make It Work for You

By Ashley Renn - August 25, 2026
For most of the internet era, searching for a home meant the same ritual: set your price cap, pick a number of bedrooms, check a few boxes, and scroll. Then the real work started — sifting through pages of results, opening listing after listing, digging for the details that actually mattered. That ritual is quietly starting to give way. Today, a fast-growing share of home searches begin as a conv
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2026 Mid-Year Market Check-In: What the First Half of the Year Tells Us About Your Next Move

By Ashley Renn - July 30, 2026
For the past two years, a lot of people have been waiting on the housing market to do one specific thing: drop rates dramatically and "unfreeze." That was the plan for buyers and sellers alike. I'll move when rates come down. That big drop never fully arrived. And the market changed anyway. It didn't unfreeze. It thawed — slowly. Halfway through 2026, buyers in many markets have more homes to ch
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What You Can Negotiate in a Home Purchase (That Most Buyers Don't Realize)

By Ashley Renn - June 24, 2026
When most people picture negotiating on a home, they picture one number: the list price. You offer somewhere under the asking price, the seller counters, you settle in the middle, and whoever gives up the most ground "loses." For a lot of buyers, that back-and-forth over the sale price is the negotiation. It's only a fraction of it. The price is the headline. The real negotiation happens in the t
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House Hacking in 2026: What the Hype Got Wrong — and What Actually Works

By Ashley Renn - May 27, 2026
If you've spent any time on real estate TikTok in the last few years, you've probably seen the house hacking pitch. Buy a property, rent part of it out, let your tenants cover the mortgage. Live for free. Build wealth while you sleep. It sounds like the kind of thing that works great in a YouTube thumbnail and falls apart in real life. And honestly? Sometimes it does. But here's what those video
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2026 Home Design Trends: What's In, What's Out, and What Buyers Are Responding To

By Ashley Renn - April 23, 2026
After a decade of cool grays, crisp whites, and spaces that looked more like showrooms than homes, buyers have changed what they're looking for. Call it quiet luxury — the idea that richness comes from depth, craft, and intention rather than flash and excess. It's not maximalism. It's a shift toward spaces that feel like somewhere you'd actually want to live. That shift is showing up in buyer dat
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Is Buying a Home Together Right for Your Family? Here's How to Think It Through

By Ashley Renn - April 01, 2026
For a long time, multigenerational living had a reputation problem. It was the option families turned to when something had gone wrong — a job loss, a divorce, a health crisis. Moving back in with your parents, or having your parents move in with you, meant something hadn't worked out. That story has changed pretty significantly. Today, families are choosing this arrangement on purpose — not as
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What Actually Makes a Listing Stand Out in 2026

By Ashley Renn - February 25, 2026
The playbook for selling a home has changed fast. Buyers have more options, more leverage, and they are using it. Active housing inventory rose more than 16% year-over-year in 2025 — one of the largest annual increases since the pandemic-era crunch.1 At the same time, 62% of homebuyers in 2025 paid below the original list price, the highest share since 2019, with the average discount hitting 7.9%,
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The True Cost of Homeownership: What You Pay Beyond the Mortgage

By Ashley Renn - January 29, 2026
When most homebuyers calculate whether they can afford a new home, they focus almost exclusively on one number: the monthly mortgage payment. It's the figure lenders qualify them for, the number discussed during showings, and the benchmark used to determine budgets. The average annual cost of owning and maintaining a single-family home in the U.S., excluding the mortgage itself, is estimated at a
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2026 US Housing Market Forecast: Will the Market Find Its Footing?

By Ashley Renn - December 24, 2025
Will 2026 be the year buyers stop waiting? Forecasters are split, predicting anywhere from 1.7%1 to 14%2 growth in home sales. That 12-point gap reveals the central question facing the housing market: how much will slightly lower mortgage rates and slowly eroding lock-in effects actually unlock pent-up demand? Nearly every major forecaster agrees the market will be more active than 2025. But beyo
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Planning Your 2026 Real Estate Moves: A Guide to the Best Buying and Selling Seasons

By Ashley Renn - November 26, 2025
Timing isn’t everything in real estate, but it can mean the difference between saving $20,000 or paying a premium, selling in 30 days or waiting three months, and negotiating from a position of strength or uncertainty. As we look toward 2026, understanding seasonal patterns has become more critical than ever. With inventory levels normalizing and market conditions continuing to evolve, knowing wh
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