by Susanne Dwyer | Jan 25, 2017 | Consumer, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News |
A new presidential term always brings change, especially when it comes to the economy. Despite the doom and gloom of the media, the overall economic outlook for the country and real estate market seems relatively positive, according to a recent Urban Land...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jan 24, 2017 | Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Trending |
Existing-home sales had a banner 2016, amounting to 5.45 million—an increase from 5.25 million in 2015 and a decade-high from 6.48 million in 2006, according to the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR). Overall, 2016 was a “good year for the housing...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jan 23, 2017 | Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Trending |
The recent reduction in annual mortgage insurance premiums for Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-backed mortgages has been “suspended indefinitely,” the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced in a mortgagee letter on Friday....
by Beth McGuire | Jan 22, 2017 | Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Trending |
First-time homebuyers are shying away from their plans to purchase this spring, according to a recently released report by realtor.com®, due to the surge in mortgage rates in the last two months of 2016. Though rates have deflated since the end of the year, they...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jan 21, 2017 | Consumer, Latest News, Lead Story, News |
Take a field trip to your hometown’s historic district and stroll the sidewalk. Blur the cars out of focus and it’s not hard to imagine what life looked like in decades and centuries past. It’s proof you don’t have to travel to a museum to get...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jan 19, 2017 | Agent, Agent, Best Practices, Best Practices, Latest News, Lead Story, Marketing, Teams, Trending |
Have you ever left your open house feeling like something wasn’t right? Perhaps you wondered if one of your open house visitors wasn’t there for the right reasons. Maybe you simply felt that something was off. Trouble is the last thing you want at an open...