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title: "The writing index"
url: https://dunnteamrealty.com/writing/
description: "The complete index of writing on this site, grouped by subject: market mechanics, money and borrowing, process and paperwork, place and history."
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# The writing index

Ten subject pages, written for this site. Each one stands on its own; together they run from how a local market is built, through the money and the paperwork, to the physical evidence a place leaves behind in its streets.

## All pages

- Market[How a local housing market actually works](https://dunnteamrealty.com/how-a-local-housing-market-works/)Supply is slow, demand is fast, and money sets the pace.
- Market[What moves house prices](https://dunnteamrealty.com/what-moves-house-prices/)Interest rates, incomes, land and the ordinary friction of moving.
- Process[Buying a home, step by step](https://dunnteamrealty.com/buying-a-home-step-by-step/)The order the steps actually happen in, and where they stall.
- Process[Selling a home, step by step](https://dunnteamrealty.com/selling-a-home-step-by-step/)Preparation, pricing, the offer window and the long tail of closing.
- Process[Surveys, inspections and searches](https://dunnteamrealty.com/surveys-inspections-and-searches/)What each check is looking for, and what it cannot tell you.
- Money[Mortgages in plain terms](https://dunnteamrealty.com/mortgages-in-plain-terms/)Principal, interest, term and the words wrapped around them.
- Money[Renting versus owning](https://dunnteamrealty.com/renting-versus-owning/)A question about time and flexibility more than a question about money.
- Place[Reading a neighborhood](https://dunnteamrealty.com/reading-a-neighborhood/)What a street tells you before anyone tells you anything.
- Place[Dunn and Harnett County](https://dunnteamrealty.com/dunn-and-harnett-county/)A rail and highway town in the Carolina sandhills, and how that shaped its housing.
- Reference[Housing words explained](https://dunnteamrealty.com/housing-words-explained/)Twenty-four words that do most of the work.

## Where to begin

If you have never taken the subject apart before, read the market page first: almost everything else is a consequence of slow supply meeting fast demand. If you are in the middle of a transaction, the process pages are arranged in the order the steps actually occur. If a word is in the way, the glossary is the shortest route.