Tagged: househunting

Rising mortgage rates are quashing the housing market. Sound familiar? It’s a truism that’s been repeated frequently over the past year or so, as mortgage rates have climbed and housing market activity has faltered. The only problem is, it’s not all that straightforward. There’s a lot going on in the housing market right now, and […]

Home flipping, never exactly an undertaking for the faint-hearted, is getting riskier. Again. Sound familiar? Americans have long had a love affair with the seductive gamble of snagging cheap fixer-uppers, rehabbing ’em, then reselling fast, hopefully for a sweet, sweet profit. But this national obsession became a national nightmare during the housing crash, when swollen […]

Mortgage Rates Continue to Fall in Holiday Gift for Home Buyers, Sellers Home buyers and sellers are in for even more holiday cheer this season as mortgage interest rates continued to fall. That makes it more affordable for folks to purchase properties as their monthly mortgage payments will be a little lower. Plus, it may […]

Best Real Estate Advice of 2018 That You’ve Just Gotta See Again Navigating the home-buying and -selling process is kind of like diving into “Game of Thrones” for the first time: People speak in a language you don’t quite understand. There’s backstory you should research before you get started. And ideally, you’d have someone by […]

Adding holiday lights to your home’s exterior is a time-honored tradition that shows your neighbors just how much you love Christmas and how creative you are! Yet sometimes, sadly, these well-intentioned efforts can take a dark turn. Don’t believe us? Let these recent Christmas decor fails below show how even the most innocent string of lights can […]

When the weather outside is frightful, trudging door to door to look at houses might seem like a fool’s errand. Everybody knows spring and summer are the home-buying seasons, and winter is the time when you—and sellers—cool it for a bit and take a break, right? While it’s true that things do slow down in […]

Want a Better Credit Score? Soon, Your Cellphone Bill Could Help Consumers’ cellphone and utility payments will soon be added to one of their major credit reports, a move that will likely boost the credit scores of millions of people and increase loan approvals. Experian PLC, one of the largest credit-reporting firms in the U.S., will […]

3 Things You’d Better Know Before Applying for a Mortgage—or Else Unless you’re sitting on a ton of cold, hard cash, you’re going to need a mortgage to buy a home. Unfortunately, you can’t just show up at a bank with a checkbook and a smile and get approved for a home loan—you need to […]

Want to learn how to buy a house for your grown child? Being able to help your grown kids become homeowners can really give them a leg up—particularly in this pricey housing market. “Between rising home prices and millennial student loan debt, many young adults don’t have money to buy a house,” says Todd Sheinin, mortgage lender […]

Freddie expands manufactured-housing footprint @FreddieMac has rolled out a two-year pilot that hopes to spur a surge in factory-built #affordable #houses of a type that more #consumers will want to #buy. #ScotsmanGuide Freddie Mac rolled out a two year pilot last week that it hopes will spur a surge in factory built affordable houses that […]