real estate market
Three Tips for Selling an Eco-Friendly Home
Eco-friendly features can help a home stand out in a competitive real estate market, especially to environmentally conscious homebuyers. In addition to the promise of lower electric bills, green upgra...
Four Ways Every Homebuyer Can Save on Title Insurance
You’ve found your dream home, made an offer and applied for a mortgage. But have you given any thought to the cost of title insurance? This all-important policy usually is purchased as part of closing...
Mortgage Rates: Rising Along with Fed Optimism
Mortgage rates rose for the second week, ticking up to 3.64 percent as Fed VIPs hinted they might raise short-term borrowing costs sooner rather than later. A year ago, 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages a...
What Home Purchasers Need to Know about Low Mortgage Rates
Mortgage rates continue to linger at their lowest level in three years … and rates are predicted to remain attractively low as we enter the peak home-buying months of the year, according to Real...
The Future of Green Building
In less than four years, California’s housing industry will be required to start building homes that produce as much power as they use during the course of a year as part of the state’s 2020 “ne...
Secrets of an Open House
You can look for homes on the Internet all day, but unless you actually visit a property, you can’t see firsthand the fabulous views, many amenities and whether you can envision yourself living ...
Spring Weather and the Real Estate Market: A Perfect Match
Everything grows in the spring, including flowers, baby animals and housing sales. Mortgage rates are close to a three-year low. This is improving consumers’ purchasing power. Many of these home buyer...
Down payment insurance seeks to ease housing bubble fears
Since spring hit, home prices are sizzling. Everyone hopes the trend will continue. However, many are a bit fearful another housing crisis may erupt. To calm new buyers, a Dallas-based company has lau...
The 20 Hottest U.S. Real Estate Markets in February 2016
February 2016 has proven to be a lucrative month for both home buyers and sellers. The number of available houses for sale on the market has increased only slightly as buyers’ demands for homes ...
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