Real Estate ABC - Information on Buying and Selling A Home

Interest Rate Report

Through the last four weeks, fixed mortgage interest rates have ridden up a bump, and then stabilized. The stock market hit a two-year low last week, the dollar is weak compared to other foreign currencies, and consumer confidence hit its third lowest level in its history.

July Real Estate Report

For month-to-month comparisons, sales were up everywhere except in the South, which was down fractionally. Year-to-year presents a different picture. Nationwide, the sales pace was down -15.85%.

Tips for First Time Home Buyers

Buying a home can be a long, complicated and frightening process, and it is important to be prepared. Knowledge is power when it comes to negotiating the difficult world of home prices, interest rates and mortgage loans. For a first time home buyer, the more information you can gather before you start shopping, the better off you will be.

How to Sell Your Home in a Slow Market

Learn how to sell your home in the current real estate market. Knowing how to prepare your home for sale, when to allow access for showings, and how you can offer buyer incentives will help you find the right buyer, even in a declining market.

Foreclosures and the Housing Crisis

The housing crisis is causing a mess, because of lower home values and massive foreclosures, often blamed on the sub-prime mortgage industry and unethical loan officers. Find out what started the boom, and how that led to the current bust.

Cleaning Up Your Credit

Mortgage lenders generally check with three credit bureaus in order to evaluate your past payment history. Your goal in cleaning up your credit report should be to clean up each of the three bureaus. If you only work on one, this does not effect the reporting to the other bureaus.

Should You Start with a High Sales Price?

Because of the change in real estate market conditions, more sellers are competing for fewer home buyers. Therefore, it is important to challenge a long-standing "myth" of real estate, that the initial listing price is not that important because it can always be adjusted down later. Find out why making this mistake can prove so costly.

When Your Home's Value is Less Than the Mortgage

With the real estate market cooling off some people are finding themselves in an awkward situation. For the first time in years the value of their home is less than what they owe on their mortgage. Several things have contributed to this. First, home prices aren't increasing like they were the last few years and in come cases have even dropped. Second, specialty loan products like option ARMs and interest only loans have made it easy people to buy more home than they can afford. There is a solution.

Ten Concerns Every Home Seller Should Pay Attention To

With the current real estate market such a competitive marketplace, how can you make your home stand out in an over-abundance of choices? Here are 10 easy to follow areas that every home seller should be concerned with before placing their home on the market. Increase your home's likeability factor to the point where you just may be catering to the highest bidder!

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