At Home with Eastbrook Homes Podcast: Stacy Vis on the Spring Housing Market

Spring is a season of new beginnings, and what better way to get a fresh start on the new year than with the purchase of a brand new home? For first-time homebuyers, that may seem like a daunting task in the spring housing market. Thankfully, Stacy Vis, Sales Coordinator at Eastbrook Homes, joined the latest episode of At Home with Eastbrook Homes to offer insights into how buyers can leverage the current market to make finding their dream home a simple, but exciting process.

Considering Building a New Home

The boom of the spring housing market means that, in some places, existing demand is outpacing supply. Prospective homeowners may have difficulty finding the perfect home that checks all their boxes with the limited inventory currently on the market. Stacy’s advice for navigating the current supply? Build your dream home!

The Eastbrook building process allows homeowners to choose from a variety of home types and provides creative freedom in customizing your home to meet your family’s individual needs. You can tailor your home to fit your budget, lifestyle, and aesthetic. Building new also offers flexibility in choosing the ideal Eastbrook community to call home.

Take Advantage of the Spring Season

It’s not just buyers who become more active in the market as the weather warms and the first hints of spring appear across West Michigan. As Stacy describes, Eastbrook Homes has been working to diversify their portfolio of available homes in anticipation of the spring housing market. With new home designs, like The Haven, and community phase launches on the 2024 horizon, now is the perfect time for aspiring homeowners to explore home options across West Michigan and Greater Lansing’s many unique cities.

Spring also allows homeowners to get a clearer picture of what life can look like in their new dream home. As Stacy tells it, the warmer weather, longer sunlight hours, and spring blossoms show off a home’s natural lighting and landscaping potential better than the winter months. For a peak into all a new home has to offer, now is the best time to schedule a home tour.

Explore Different Home Plans

Even though many families enter the home-buying process with a specific vision of their future dream home, Stacy says that shouldn’t stop them from exploring all possible home options! The diverse lineup of Eastbrook home plans means there are seemingly endless possibilities for personalizing a home’s design. Seeing those options in action can help an aspiring homeowner’s vision evolve and grow to encompass design decisions they may not have even previously considered. In a busy housing market, exploring different home types can also help home buyers find a more budget-friendly way to meet their lifestyle needs.

Invest in Home Equity Now

For those entering the housing market for the first time, it may be tempting to try and wait for home prices to drop before committing to your dream home. However, as Stacy advises, it’s best to buy sooner rather than later. Historically, home prices continue to rise, not drop, and buying your first home now is an important future investment.

Buying a townhome, for example, offers a more affordable way to get a foot into the door of home ownership while still building equity that can help launch a future home purchase. They’re also easy to maintain but still provide flexibility in creating a personalized home design to suit your family’s needs.

Get started today on your home-buying journey by visiting the Eastbrook Homes website. Our team of experts is prepared to help you navigate the buying and building journey with their years of experience and deep understanding of today’s housing market. You can read through our blog for resources for personalizing your next Eastbrook home, browse our feature gallery, schedule a virtual model home tour, and connect with us to get started!