A Look at the 2024 Real Estate Market: High Demand Despite Rising Mortgages
Happy New Year! 2024 is already shaping up to be a standout year in the real estate industry because of this surprising trend: a surge in mortgage demand despite rising interest rates and a cooling housing market, thanks to the tightening reins of the...
Destress If You’re Hosting at Home for the Holidays
Stress is always at an all-time-high over the holidays, but what can we do when hosting friends and family at home – both beforehand and during – to tamper that stress and prove that it’s still the most wonderful time of the year? Prep...
Spotlight on: JonAnthony Hartley
We’d like to welcome JonAnthony Hartley to the FWIWA team! The Myrtle Beach native is new to the appraisal industry, after earning his apprentice license a few months ago and starting here in early September 2023. He has a bright future here at FWIW!...
The New SC Property Tax Bill: What Homeowners Should Know
In light of the state’s new real property tax bill that just came out from the South Carolina Department of Revenue, we wanted to make sure homeowners are aware of their rights to appeal. To explain, everyone who owns real property in the state...
Myrtle Beach is Ranked the Fastest-Growing Place in the U.S.
Myrtle Beach has done it once again! For the third straight year, Myrtle Beach is ranked No. 1 by U.S. News & World Report as the fast-growing place in the country for 2023-2024. The list is based off “the net migration of each metro...
Q&A Spotlight on Audria Wagenknecht
We welcomed Audria Wagenknecht onto the For What It’s Worth Appraisals (FWIWA) team in April 2023, and we wanted you all to know more about her interesting background before she started with us and what she does outside the office via this little Q&A...