This Is Why Being a Homebuyer Really Sucks Right Now
Filed under: News, Buying It’s not fun being a homebuyer these days. We’ve heard about rampant bidding wars all over the place and rapidly rising home prices — which means homebuyers are having...
View ArticleCase-Shiller: Home Prices See Biggest Jump in 7 Years
Filed under: News, Buying, Selling By Christopher S. Rugaber WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices jumped 10.9 percent in March compared with a year ago, the most since April 2006. A growing number of buyers...
View ArticleWhy Real Estate Investors Have the Edge in Housing Market
Filed under: News, Buying, Investing Prospective homebuyers are entering some markets today to find it rife with competition and the pickings slim. While many put off home purchases during the...
View Article8 Key Facts About Your Mortgage APR
Filed under: News, Advice, Buying By Scott Sheldon Securing a mortgage today requires careful consideration of all the figures associated with the transaction. The biggest figures that most homebuyers...
View ArticleChina's Real Estate Market: A Bubble About To Burst?
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View ArticleVacation Home Sales Sizzle, Rentals Booking Fast
Filed under: News, Buying, Renting By Diana Olick In the kitschy community of St. Michaels on the Maryland shore, businesses are gearing up for the official start of the season, Memorial Day weekend....
View ArticleAre No-Cost Mortgages Always the Best Deal?
Filed under: News, Advice, Buying By Scott Sheldon A program made popular in the height of the subprime lending environment was the no-cost mortgage. No-cost mortgages have gotten quite a bit of...
View ArticlePets in Listing Photos: Cute But Maybe Not Good for a Sale
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View Article10 Mortgage Misconceptions
Filed under: News, Buying, Financing By Alison Paoli Mortgages are tricky and often hard to understand. Because most people only purchase a home every five to seven years, prospective homebuyers...
View ArticleHomebuyers Clueless About Mortgages, Zillow Survey Finds
Filed under: News, Buying, Financing By Les Christie The housing market is heating up, yet many house hunters are not prepared to take on the biggest purchases of their lives. When it comes to...
View ArticleHow Rising Mortgage Rates Might Cool a Hot Housing Market
Filed under: Buying, Economy, Financing Mortgage rates have been extremely low for some time now. However, with rates on the rise once again, some worry that the declining affordability could be...
View ArticleU.S. New Home Sales Hit Fastest Pace in 5 years
Filed under: Buying, Selling By Martin Crutsinger WASHINGTON — Sales of new homes rose in May to the fastest pace in five years, a solid gain that added to signs of a steadily improving housing market....
View ArticleMy Next Move: Since My Divorce
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View ArticleWhere Neighbors Can Buy Abandoned Homes for $1
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View ArticleWhere Cities Are Practically Giving Away Abandoned Homes
Filed under: News, Buying, Foreclosures, Investing Andrea Salcedo was displaced to Long Island by Hurricane Sandy, but prefers to live in Binghamton, N.Y., near her family. Salcedo’s dream of getting a...
View ArticleRate on 30-Year Mortgage Hits 2-Year High at 4.51%
Filed under: News, Buying, Financing Nam Y. Huh/AP WASHINGTON — The average U.S. rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage rose this week to 4.51 percent, a two-year high. Rates have been rising on...
View ArticleHome Foreclosures Fall to Lowest Level in Nearly 8 Years
Filed under: Buying, Foreclosures Ariel Skelley/Getty Images By ALEX VEIGA LOS ANGELES — Fewer U.S. homes entered the foreclosure process or were repossessed by banks in June, the latest sign that the...
View ArticleBest Deal on a House? It Could Be the One You're Renting
Filed under: Buying, Renting By Scott Sheldon If you have never owned a home before, or owned a home in the past, or previous circumstances require you to rent a home now, and you’re hoping to buy a...
View ArticleJason's House, Trulia Set to Redefine Search for Real Estate Agent
Filed under: News, Buying One Texas company wants to revolutionize how homebuyers negotiate with their agents, particularly on one thing many buyers and sellers balk at: the amount of commission real...
View ArticleBidders Take the Plunge as Tor Cottage Teeters on the Brink
Filed under: News, Buying, Investing Who wouldn’t want an immaculate hillside home overlooking the sea for a fraction of the cost? But when that home sits on an edge of a cliff — next door to a home...
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