Home Buying
Home Mortgage Rates Expected To Drop Below 5% Soon
Tweet Very good news in the form of lower home loan rates is beginning to unfold across the nation. After peaking just above 6% in Spring 2008, rates are currently
Zillow Reports US Housing Values Dropped By $2 Trillion In 2008
Tweet Try to wrap your mind around this thought: America’s housing market was hammered in 2008 to the point where when all is said and done on January 1, 2009,
Should You Wait Until The Bottom of the Housing Market to Buy a Home?
Tweet Lots of people are in good shape financially despite the recent gyrations of the stock market. Sure, their retirement portfolios may have taken a hit – a bad one
You Can Save Money For A Down Payment
Tweet Homeownership Is Still Within Your Reach America is coming out of a strange fog, one that first settled down on our country during the heady days of the 1990s.
Is A No Closing Cost Mortgage Right For You?
Tweet Consumers today are feeling the impact of a financial crisis that only seems to be getting worse. Much of the crisis can be traced back to a series of
Buying A New Home? Haggle!
Tweet The current housing market is a wonderful ally for home buyers, as home values drop and sellers are willing to negotiate. Home shoppers previously shut out of some local
Going Back Home For Mortgages: How Parents Can Help
Tweet By Sarah Scrafford, Guest Writer You would think that the process of buying a first home just got easy what with the slump in real estate prices, but that’s
Good News Continues To Bolster Some Housing Markets
Tweet Many local housing markets are offering near equal measures of good news and bad news when it comes to buying and selling homes. In some markets the good news
Exercise Due Diligence When Buying A Home At Auction
Tweet Earlier this month SayEducate explored the growing trend where buyers are choosing foreclosed homes as one way to enter the housing market or to get a second home for
Fannie Mae Increases Support For Multifamily Housing
Tweet Fannie Mae, which is the informal name for the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) — a government backed business — announced last week that it had invested $20 billion
Foreclosures: Wise Investment or Money Trap?
Tweet I was having a discussion with a friend last week when our conversation turned to the housing market. Bleak news upon bleak news for some people, but not for
Save Even More With FSBO
Tweet FSBO or For Sale By Owner remains a popular marketing alternative for people who are buying or selling a home. Sellers like them because they can cut out the
Condo Fees Are Up, Up, And Away!
Tweet The condominium market has imploded over the past year or two thanks to a downturn in the overall housing market and overbuilding in many local markets. Complete condo projects
The 4 Elements Of Your Mortgage Loan
Tweet Your home loan consists of four elements, two that you are probably aware of, and those are the principal and interest. Two additional elements, taxes and insurance, must also
Smart Stress Reducing Moving Tips
Tweet If you’re planning to move, hopefully you are well along the way toward putting your plans in place. If not, you’ll find that the days leading up to the
