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Americans Feeling Good About Housing Market Growth
There have been significant improvements throughout the national housing market over the last year and that in turn has led many Americans to start feeling better about its chances for continued...
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The Quick Formula to Determine Your House Payment
As you shop for a house and consider taking out a mortgage, determining your house payment can no doubt be a time-consuming process — running calculations, getting updated payment scenarios from your...
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Major Banks Cut Mortgage Debt for Troubled Borrowers
Millions of homeowners across the country faced financial difficulties during the economic downturn, and as a result had trouble paying their mortgages. But because a number of major banks seriously...
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Home Values See Biggest Jump in Years
The value of properties across the country has been on the rise for more than a year, and that trend continued in the first month of 2013. The average value of homes nationwide ticked up slightly...
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How to Reduce Your Mortgage Insurance Payment
Mortgage insurance is the dreaded premium on a mortgage payment that consumers hate, and for good reason. It makes the cost of homeownership rise over time, benefiting one group: The investor that owns...
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Tight Credit Restricts Housing Market
In the wake of the recent recession, many banks significantly reined in the availability of credit to protect themselves from the wave of defaults that were plaguing consumers and businesses...
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Millennials Expected to Dominate Housing Market by 2020
Though the housing market has made significant strides over the last year or so, many experts believe it will continue to improve in the short term. However, new data also shows that it could continue...
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What I Learned From Buying a Short Sale Home
One Saturday morning, my husband and I shadowed our inspection agent as he scrutinized the 4-bedroom house we’d bid on several weeks before. I scribbled furiously in a notebook as we came upon a dead...
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Military Families Victimized by Wrongful Foreclosure
While millions of Americans were affected by the robo-signing scandal that resulted in massive amounts of improper foreclosures over the last several years, it seems that a number of those victims were...
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Home Prices Up 10% Year Over Year
While home price gains in the last year or more have been significant, new data shows just how appreciable those gains have been, and also that they could continue to rise in the near future. At the...
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Is 2013 the Right Time to Buy a House?
Have you noticed it yet? The growing murmur out there, getting louder every week, bubbling up in newspapers, on TV, and on news sites, and it’s telling you … to buy a house in 2013. OK, maybe that’s a...
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With Prices Up, Spring Homebuying Season Looks Promising
The U.S. housing market has been improving considerably during the past 12 months and that continued into February, prompting some experts to project even larger gains as the spring buying season...
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Mortgage Pros Expect Home Prices, Sales to Continue Growing
Though the housing market has been in recovery mode for the past year, the vast majority of experts say that many of these improvements will likely continue throughout 2013, and potentially beyond....
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Mortgage Rates Hit 7-Month High
The housing market has seen significantly more activity in the last year largely because more buyers are being drawn in by interest rates standing at or near their lowest points ever, but that might...
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House Hunters Kicking Off Shopping Season Early
The winter months are often seen as a down time for the housing market as sellers and buyers tend to wait until the spring for the new year’s activity to begin in earnest, but given how strong the real...
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The Biggest Mortgage Mistake Consumers Make
Despite the technical rigors of qualifying for a loan today, there is something more ominous lurking in all mortgage applications that most consumers wouldn’t think twice about. Specifically, we’re...
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Homes Getting More Expensive, More Consumers Buying
Though the national housing market has seen prices improve dramatically in the last year or more, consumers still seem more interested in buying properties, and both trends continued into the month of...
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Are We on the Brink of a Home-Buying Frenzy?
Housing experts have noted that in the last few months, there has been a significant uptick in demand for homes by consumers eager to take advantage of still-low home prices and record-low interest...
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Hooray: Consumers Have Equity in Their Homes Again
The housing market’s massive downturn several years ago took a significant toll on homeowners nationwide, and some are only now finally recovering from it. However, that number grew significantly in...
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Consumers Keep Buying Even as Home Prices Rise
The housing recovery has been ongoing for some time now, and this was once again reflected in February, as consumers continued scooping up available properties even as prices rose over those seen in...
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