10 Things To Know About Home Value Estimates
There's a reason why estimating a home's value is a specialized process that's typically executed by a licensed professional (also known as an appraiser) -- it's not easy to determine the fair-market value of...
Home Affordability is Steadily Decreasing
While market conditions are generally shifting in a direction less favorable to sellers, the movement isn’t necessarily favoring buyers either. As prices, interest rates and property taxes continue to rise,...
How To Choose A Mortgage Lender In 8 Steps
Buying a house is something that you do just a handful of times in your life if you're like most people -- but paying a mortgage will be an event that happens every month, most likely for more than a decade...
7 Reasons Why A Fast Home Sale Is A Good Home Sale
If you've ever sold a house before, then you know what a long, time-consuming process it can be -- and if you've never sold a house before, you've still probably heard plenty of horror stories from people who...
12 Steps For Making An Offer On A House
When you make an offer on a house, in some ways, it's the first serious step toward homeownership: You're telling the seller that you're interested enough in their property to literally put your money on the...
13 Steps To Close The Sale Of Your Home
The home closing process feels like the home stretch to sellers -- you've done all the work to get the house ready to sell, marketed it in an attractive way to buyers, and now you're ready to move. Although...
How To Calculate What You Can Afford On A Home
Whether you've already started saving for a down payment on a house, or you're just starting to toy with the idea of what it would be like to rent instead of buy, there's one question you have to answer before...
2019 Real Estate Outlook
Most experts predict that closed sales will decline while prices will continue to rise through and beyond 2019, but at a slower rate.