The Listed Podcast

What happens when an appraiser decides a home only has 25 years of "economic life" left? 🏚️ In this episode of the Listed Podcast, Aubra Palermo and Christy Garnhart break down a mind-boggling transaction where an appraiser's single line item almost torpedoed a buyer's 30-year mortgage and grant qualification. They share the exact steps taken to salvage the deal and reveal why structural engineering reports and Friday closings cause the biggest headaches in modern real estate. P...

Are you letting rising home insurance costs or real estate "gurus" derail your property journey? 📈🏡 In this episode of the Listed Podcast, Vanessa Torres and Christy Garnhart break down real-time market updates across Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin while tackling national headlines on skyrocketing homeowner insurance premiums and capital gains tax proposals. Later, they are joined by real estate developer, investor, and private money lender Gabriella Ariza (owner...

Buyers in our region aren't getting deals; they're getting multiple offers over asking in every county we tracked this month. This month on Listed, Sheila Wade and Aubra Palermo break down a new federal housing law that just took effect, what it could mean for buyers and sellers in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, and why the Fed's constant back-and-forth on interest rates might be doing buyers more harm than good, plus a $17.5 billion nuclear investment tied to AI data center...

The Sunbelt housing market is shifting fast — and the country's hottest pandemic hotspots are cooling into buyers' markets. This week, we break down why sellers now outnumber buyers by nearly 47% nationwide, and why families are cashing out of inflated mortgages in Nashville, Austin, and Miami to relocate to more affordable regions across the Midwest. But a shifting market isn't the only trap we're exposing. We break down a real-world scenario in which an unrepresented seller wrote thei...

📉🏡In this episode of the Listed Podcast, Abra Palermo and Vanessa Torres slice through noisy national real estate panic to deliver the hyper-local reality of Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. While big-city outlets talk about a market cool-down, our regional properties are seeing massive multi-offer scenarios that fly off the shelf in under 21 days. Abra unpacks a brutal underwriting horror story detailing how a major out-of-state bank nearly killed a solid rural transaction bec...