What Exactly is Needed to Close on a House?
Closing on a house culminates weeks or months of house hunting, negotiations, and paperwork. It's an exciting but often complex ...
Tag: Housing Market
Foreclosure Activity Sees Decline in November
A total of 32,120 properties had foreclosure filings—default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions—in November, down 7% from a month ...
How Market Data Helps Build Client Connections
Blake Wallace started his career in real estate walking neighborhoods throughout the Minneapolis, Minnesota, area, knocking on doors of strangers’ ...
Mortgage Applications Surge Following Steady Rate Decreases
In the wake of a six-week stretch of mortgage rate decreases, Mortgage applications surged 7.4% this week, also marking their ...
The Housing Markets Facing Greater Risk of Downturns
Third-quarter patterns—derived from gaps in home affordability, underwater mortgages, foreclosures and unemployment—revealed that California, New Jersey and Illinois have the ...
Gen Z Will Now Shape Rental Demand, Harvard Study Says
Millennials have been a generation of (mostly) renters for the past decade or two. Graduating to adulthood in the 2008 ...
Mortgage Rates Hover Near 7%
The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) decreased for the sixth straight week, from last week’s average of 7.22% to an average ...
OP-ED: Student Debt Leaves the Next Generation of Homebuyers Hopeless
My generation—halfway between millennials and Gen Z—has a penchant for grim humor about our shared future. An internet meme I’ve ...
The Housing Markets That Will Dominate 2024
As 2023 is coming to a close, there’s a lot of predictions up in the air for what the housing ...
As 2024 Dawns, Brokers and Agents Talk Jobs, Lawsuits, Hopes and Concerns
Peaks and valleys… ebbs and flows… waxes and wanes… Every real estate professional understands that their industry has more of ...
Red (Flag) Alert! Guiding Buyers After Discovering a Property’s Problems
In most states, homesellers are legally required to disclose any known material defects or issues with the property. But that can be a slippery slope. Read more.
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