Buying a Home

Rick Piette of Premier Mortgage Lending will present a seminar called Financing After Foreclosure or Short Sale this Wednesday to members of the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors as part of the organizations ongoing informational seminars and classes. GLVAR members will learn how private lending programs, such as Premier Mortgage Lendings Another Chance Home [...]

Berkeley, Calif. Related News The Caucus: Obama Outlines Proposal to Help Homeowners (January 24, 2012) MANY potential homebuyers who can afford to buy are instead waiting, worried that home prices will continue to decline. In its most recent quarterly survey, Fannie Mae reported a continuing decline in the fraction of renters and homeowners who think [...]

The mortgage rate for new borrowers has fallen from 5.75% on average in 2008 to 3.63% last year. Lenders have been offering some of their cheapest ever deals due to the Bank of Englands historic low 0.5% base rate, while average house prices have dropped by 11% over the same period. As well as calculating [...]

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes fell in December after hitting the highest level in a year-and-a-half a month earlier. The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday its index of sales agreements fell 3.5 percent last month to a reading of 96.6. That’s down from November’s reading of 100.1. [...]

A Digital Guide to Buying a Home PCMag walks you through the online steps of buying a home, from figuring out what you can afford to signing on the dotted line.

Fewer people bought new homes in December. The decline made 2011 the worst year for new -homes sales on records dating back nearly half a century. The Commerce Department said Thursday new-home sales fell 2.2 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 307,000. The pace is less than half the 700,000 that [...]

-16% Sources: Halifax, Birmingham Midshires and ONS *Weighted average of regional data using housing tenure figures. This is largely down to recent declines in house prices and mortgage rates pushing down home buying costs, Halifax said. The average mortgage rate has fallen from 5.75% in 2008 to 3.63% in 2011, while the average house price [...]

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In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama addressed our countrys current real estate situation, including the fact that many American homeowners currently have underwater mortgages. While there has been some improvements to help those underwater homeowners in the form of changes to the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP), in todays real estate [...]

RENTING a property in the North East is almost 500 a year more expensive than buying it, it was revealed yesterday. Higher demand due to worries over job losses coupled with a short supply of properties has pushed up rental prices. At the same time, falling mortgage interest rates have made buying a home more [...]