The Ruhl Blog

Protect Our Property Values: Short Sales Better Than Foreclosures

While our region doesn’t have nearly the foreclosure problem that Florida, Nevada, Arizona and California are experiencing, we do have a substantial number of sellers who are struggling with delinquent mortgages and a growing number of foreclosure properties are coming onto the market. At Ruhl&Ruhl, for example, we have 1,352 properties...

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Robson Homes Now Building at Prairie Heights in Davenport

Ruhl&Ruhl REALTORS and Robson Homes are pleased to announce that construction is now under way on the first phase of a new townhome-style condominium project at Prairie Heights, Davenport’s finest new neighborhood. With a traditional neighborhood design, Prairie Heights features large green spaces, expansive pedestrian walkways, adjacent...

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Scott County New Home Sales Grow in 2010

Scott County year-to-date new house sales, as reported by the Quad City Area Realtor Association’s Multiple Listing Service, have shown a 27.6% increase in unit sales, when compared with the first ten months of sales in 2009.  The month of October saw exactly the same number of both closed and pended new house sales as recorded during October...

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Should You Move or Improve?

Whether to move or improve is a harder question to answer than it was a few years ago, but a few cost-benefit calculations can help you make the right decision. Moving has gotten harder.  With median housing prices down 25% since their peak in 2006, some 15 million homeowners—almost one in four—owe more on their mortgages than they could...

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