Buying your first home is exciting and scary all at the same time. How do you know you are doing it right? Are you buying too much home or too little home? Is the interest rate right? What type of loan should you get?Compare Offers from Several Mortgage Lenders.These are just a few of the Read more
So You Have a House Now. What Else Do You Need?
So now you’ve got your priced house key finally on your hands. After months of waiting and negotiating and signing seemingly endless real estate documents, you’re finally free to move in and settle into a new life. You might think: ”The worst is over.”Or so you thought.The moment you open Read more
Things That May Need to Wait If You Want to Buy a Home Soon
Remember when Tim Gurner, a real estate magnate based in Melbourne, said that the odds of you buying a home will become higher if you decide to ditch avocado toast?What he really meant, however, was that in order for Millennials to become homeowners, they should stop buying overpriced avocado Read more
Whatever Happened to Affordable Housing?
While sweeping through the morning mortgage news, one particular article from The Guardian caught my attention. The piece, written by UN-appointed special rapporteur Leilani Farha headlines: “Housing is a human rights issue.” I did a double take. That’s not something you see every day.Or maybe Read more
Resources for Investigating Your Local Real Estate Market
Finding out the conditions of the local real estate market is a prerequisite for any individual looking to buy a home. But unless you hire a realtor, you’re mostly going to get a general feedback on your general inquiry regarding the current market conditions.Fortunately, there are publicly Read more