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Here are 20 easy tips to help kickstart the sale of your home! Your real estate agent will surely have a few more to add to this list: 

Highlights:

When listing your house for sale your top goal will be to get the home sold for the best price possible! There are many small projects that you can do to ensure this happens! Your real estate agent will have a list of specific suggestions for getting your house ready for market and is a great resource for finding local contractors who can hel...

     We know that the rates have been at an all-time low over the summer with people buying homes with a 3.39 interest rate on their mortgage. People who were planning to buy in the summer but hesitated are now kicking themselves in the rear end for not being more decisive. The 30 year fixed rate has gone up to 4.13% as of December 12th, 2016. Now this might seem like the end of the world to some folks but this hike shows confidence in real estate and shows the strength of the pool of buyers and...

Are you thinking of buying a home? Are you dreading having to walk through strangers’ houses? Are you concerned about getting the paperwork correct? Hiring a professional real estate agent can take away most of the challenges of buying. A great agent is always worth more than the commission they charge, just like a great doctor or great accountant.

You want to deal with one of the best agents in your marketplace. To do this, you must be able to distinguish an average agent from a great one.

According to Bankrate’s latest Financial Security Index Poll, Americans who have money to set aside for the next 10 years would rather invest in real estate than any other type of investment.

Bankrate asked Americans to answer the following question:

 

“Which would be the best way to invest money you did not need for more than 10 years?”

 

Real Estate came in as the top choice with 25% of all respondents, while cash investments (such as savings accounts and CD’s) came in second with 23%. Th...

One of the biggest takeaways from Pulsenomics’ most recent Home Price Expectation Survey is that over the next five years, home prices are expected to appreciate 3.5% per year on average and to grow by around 18% cumulatively.

What does this mean for homeowners and their equity position?

As an example, let’s assume that a young couple purchased and closed on a $250,000 home in January of this year. If we take a look at only the projected increase in the price of that home, how much equity wi...

Eric Belsky is the Managing Director of the Joint Center of Housing Studies (JCHS) at Harvard University. He authored a paper on homeownership titled - The Dream Lives On: The Future of Homeownership in America. In his paper, Belsky reveals five financial reasons why people should consider buying a home.

Here are the five reasons, each followed by an excerpt from the study:

1. Housing is typically the one leveraged investment available.

“Few households are interested in borrowing money to buy...

GETTING A MORTGAGE:

WHY SO MUCH PAPERWORK?

Why is there so much paperwork mandated by lenders for a mortgage loan application when buying a home today? It seems that they need to know everything about you and require three separate sources to validate each and every entry on the application form.

Many buyers are being told by friends and family that the process was a hundred times easier when they bought their home ten to twenty years ago.

There are two very good reasons that...