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Looking for the sweet spot of the mortgage market? Shorter-term mortgage loans are growing in popularity. 10-year mortgages are getting some real mojo in the marketplace. They now represent one fifth of the entire mortgage market. The key demographic for 10-year mortgages are the Baby Boomers who are refinancing into ...
When you shop around for your refinance, finding the best mortgage rates is only part of the process. Refinance customers also need to shop around to decide which type of financial institution they want to refinance with. Do you prefer the anonymity of an online-only bank or the face-to-face meetings ...
If you have pinched credit and are trying to get a mortgage, you want to be sure you get your application under way before June 1. Under amendments to the Truth in Lending Act, a few new provisions go into place June 1. Chief among them, sub-prime mortgage holders will ...
The way we form households is changing. That begs the question, what comes first: Marriage or buying a house? It's a fact of life that many younger people in their 20s will first co-habitat before they're married. A study from the Centers for Disease Control shows that 48% of American ...
We're coming up one of the housing market’s peak buying and selling times. With that in mind, what are the biggest mistakes made by both sellers and buyers? For sellers, I find the number one mistake they make is in selecting an agent. If you're interviewing agents, don’t list with ...
The housing recovery that we saw stirrings of in the fall of last year is clearly under way. Housing is set to return to the "get rich slow" prospect it has always been since before the real estate bubble and bust. Historically, homes appreciated at the rate of inflation plus ...
Equity in homes is going up for the first time since the real estate bust began. That's a clear sign of recovery in so many places. One third of Americans who have a home now own it free and clear, according to the latest data from Zillow. The cities where ...
After years of doom and gloom on the housing front, Americans are seeing a big rise in the equity in their homes. New numbers from the Federal Reserve show the average equity of the average American homeowner now stands at 41 cents on the dollar -- the highest it's been ...
For the first time since the real estate bubble, your ability to borrow against the value of your home is returning. This is significant because over the last five years, there was almost no home equity line of credit (HELOC) activity and almost no second mortgage activity. But now we ...
New rules coming in November could allow you to do a short sale under many circumstances even if you're not behind on your mortgage.
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