Sellers, Don’t Delay or You May Miss Out

Some would-be move-up home sellers are eyeing home prices carefully. They’re waiting to see how much home prices appreciate more before they consider selling their home. But they may be missing their perfect opportunity, some housing experts say. The best time to move may depend on when the home owner purchased their current residence. Home [...]

The Low-Down On Big Down Payments

You can buy a home with as little as 3 percent down, thanks to federal government loans and others with eased restrictions. Low-down payment mortgages are an effort to extend home ownership to more people and to help some out of mortgages they can’t afford. However, low-down payment loans can be tricky and leave homeowners [...]

5 Home Selling Tips Buyers Would Give Sellers

It is a rare occurrence these days to have a home’s buyer and seller sit down around the kitchen table to make a deal. In some areas, they do still sit around the attorney’s boardroom table to close the deal, but by that time, the deal is done and the ship has already sailed on [...]

6 Selling Truths Sellers Need to Hear

Selling a home can be stressful for the unprepared or under prepared consumer. Crazy expectations, market mis-education, and the common misconception that all homes sell in 30 minutes like they do on HGTV creates the wrong expectation for home sellers. Avoid the misunderstandings that could ruin the transaction and your chances at selling your home. [...]

6 Tips on Buying & Renting a Home for Extra Income

Low mortgage rates have made buying a home more affordable and turned rentals into an attractive option for investors. Throughout the downturn in the housing market, average investors, sometimes pooling their money, have bought foreclosures at a sharp discount and turned them into rentals. Many homeowners also have purchased a second home and rented out [...]

Tips For First-Time Landlords

If the following two statements ring true for you, becoming a landlord might not be a bad idea. You can't or don't want to sell your existing home. You can move to another home for less than the income you could get for renting your home. The housing recovery is underway, but it could still [...]

Boca Raton Squatter Uses Adverse Possession to Live in $2.5 Million Dollar Mansion

Mortgage Industry Fares Well in Fiscal Cliff Deal, Debt Forgiveness Law Survives

The mortgage industry can breath a sigh of relief with the final fiscal cliff deal bringing back a popular tax break on mortgage insurance premiums and debt forgiveness for borrowers who go through a short-sale or some other type of debt reduction. A topic that is still up for discussion and likely to surface later [...]

Housing Market 2013: Predictions For the New Year

Here are some housing market predictions for 2013. Buying Gets Less Affordable The bust of the housing market five years ago created one of the cheapest times to buy. Across many parts of the U.S., even in some of the priciest markets including New York and Honolulu, it has become cheaper to purchase a home [...]

Sizzle Returns to South Florida Home Market

Multiple offers empower South Florida home sellers FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Dec. 10, 2012 – The two-bedroom Coral Springs condominium went on the market for $53,000. Unlike other condos for sale across South Florida, this one wouldn’t prevent the buyer from renting the unit in the first year. A low price combined with no rent [...]

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