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been outbid," Sklar said.
Their Realtor, Billy Howard with
Keller Williams Realty, said the tight
market puts pressure on the brokers
to deliver for their clients.
"They feel like we're not doing our
job, but it's really frustrating when
you've got so many buyers after two
or three years of a terrible market,"
Howard said.
"Now we have
all the buyers
we can stand
and nothing to
sell to them, so it
really is frustrat
ing."
Mary Anne
Walser, a Keller
Williams Realtor
who also writes
about real es
tate at maryan-
newalser.word-
press.com, said
she noticed a big
increase in in
terested buyers
about a month
ago. She said the
market is beginning to cool off a bit.
"Interest rates took a couple of
sharp ticks up, and that slowed down
activity," Walser said. "We went
through a period where it was real
ly dramatic. You'd put four houses
on the market and get four offers that
day."
According to Busines-
sinsider.com, at the end of
June the interest rate for
a 30-year fixed mortgage
was 4.46 percent, up from
around 4 percent at the be
ginning of June.
"People are worried that [interest
rates are] going to keep going up, and
a lot of buyers have a sense of urgen
cy they didn't have before," Walser
said.
People on the supply side of the
market are concerned about labor
shortages and the price of materials.
Grant said he's had problems find
ing workers since the state Gener
al Assembly passed immigration re
form in 2011, driving out much of
the skilled labor in the homebuilding
business. He said the labor shortage
has slowed down the rate of produc
tion.
"I think it's had a dramatic im
pact," Grant said. "We're kind of like
the farmers in south Georgia who
couldn't find anybody to pick crops.
We couldn't find anybody to drive
the nails."
Grant said people cut fewer trees
during the recession, resulting in an
increased price of materials.
Glazer said he's had problems
finding workers, too. In ad
dition to workers affected
by immigration reform, he
said there are fewer com
panies building homes than
there were before the reces
sion hit.
"A lot of the guys that were in
business are out of business now, the
smaller companies back in the day,
are out of business," Glazer said.
"They filed for bankruptcy or closed
down their stores and their shops. A
lot of my old contacts, I call them and
their phones are disconnected."
Phil Mosier
Randy Glazer, left, goes over design plans
with Francois Lodde, director of operations
for Glazer Design and Construction.
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