5 Housing and Mortgage Trends To Get Ready For This Spring
Reposted from businessinsider.com | Polyana da Costa, Bankrate.com Homeowners who endured years of declining home values will discover that the game has changed in their favor. With low mortgage rates and home prices gaining momentum, an increasing number of buyers are expected to shop for homes this spring. The good news for sellers: The inventory of homes for sale [...]
Applying For A Mortgage While Fixing Your Credit
By Dan Green | Reposted from themortgagereports.com Your credit score is a number meant to score your history of “borrowing money”. However, a February 2013 study from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found that 20% of U.S. consumers have at least one documented error in their active credit history, with a quarter of those errors [...]
How To Boost Your Credit Score When Applying For A Mortgage
By Dan Green | Reposted from themortgagereports.com Ultra-low mortgage rates have sped up the housing market’s recovery during the last year, with home sales and home prices both on the rise. During the third quarter of 2012 alone, $521 billion in new mortgages appeared on consumer credit reports, marking the fourth consecutive increase in mortgage [...]
New Homeowners Guide: How to Buy a House and Get a Mortgage
By Dan Green | Reposted from themortgagereports.com The U.S. housing market is in recovery, and home sales are expected to rise through 2013 and into next year. If you’re among the many people planning to buy a home this year, be sure to understand the actual process of it all — especially with respect to your [...]
Buy A Home In The Winter? Consider The Advantages.
By Dan Green | Reposted from themortgagereports.com Winter is often a “slow period” in the housing market; a time characterized by fewer home buyers and a potential lull in prices. This winter, however, home values appear to be holding steady. First-look housing market data from Clear Capital suggests that the January markets remains buoyed by [...]
Ten Tips About Mortgages and Refinancing in 2013
Reposted from Bankrate.com / by Polyana da Costa /Published January 03, 2013 If you’ve been sitting on the sidelines, waiting for the best time to refinance or get a mortgage to buy a home, think of 2013 as your last chance to act.With good credit, persistence and some shopping skills, you can still snag phenomenal deals [...]
To Givers of Down Payments
Reposted from the New York Times By LISA PREVOST HOME buyers trying to scrape together enough money to cover the typical 20 percent down payment frequently look to relatives for help. In a National Association of Realtors survey of people who bought homes from July 2011 to June 2012, about a quarter of first-time buyers [...]
Will 2013 Be the Time for Home Buyers to Jump?
By RACHEL LOUISE ENSIGN for The Wall Street Journal This New Year’s, you may want to make a resolution to go house hunting. Home prices are finally starting to recover, but they’re still low enough to get a great deal. Add to that interest rates that are at historic lows, and 2013 may be the [...]
What You Should Know About Home Appraisals
By Amy Fontinelle for Investopedia When you’re buying a home using a mortgage, refinancing your existing mortgage, or selling your home to anyone other than an all-cash buyer, the home appraisal is a key component of the transaction. Whether you’re a buyer, owner or seller, you’ll want to understand how the appraisal process works and [...]
Yes Massachusetts you have favorable Real Estate Market Conditions
Massachusetts real estate is presently seeing some of the best market condiitons ever because of all-time low Mortgage Rates and current market and economic conditions.
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