by Susanne Dwyer | Aug 28, 2011 | For Your Clients, Marketing, News |
Regional Spotlight—(MCT)—Andrew Wells is hoping to buy a Baltimore home for around the cost of an old car: Less than $10,000. Turns out he’s in good company. One of every 10 city homes sold during the first half of the year , about 275 in all, fell in that price...
by Susanne Dwyer | Aug 27, 2011 | Marketing, News |
Short sales of pre-foreclosure properties jumped 19 percent in the second quarter, even as sales of bank-owned foreclosures declined and overall distressed sales were flat. A total of 102,407 pre-foreclosure homes—in default or scheduled for auction—sold to third...
by Susanne Dwyer | Aug 27, 2011 | For Your Clients, Marketing, News |
Mortgage rates posted mixed results this week, but the benchmark conforming 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to a record low of 4.41 percent, according to Bankrate.com’s weekly national survey. The average 30-year fixed mortgage has an average of 0.43 discount...
by Susanne Dwyer | Aug 25, 2011 | Best Practices, Marketing, News |
Sometimes global opportunity lies where people least realize—not in large, urban markets known for being magnets to multinational organizations and immigrant communities—but in small metro and rural regions. It might not be immediately apparent, but numerous...
by Susanne Dwyer | Aug 25, 2011 | Marketing, News |
Mortgage applications decreased 2.4 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending August 19, 2011. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application...
by Susanne Dwyer | Aug 25, 2011 | For Your Clients, Marketing, News |
Regional Spotlight—Reports from local agents in Andover, Massachusetts indicate that buyers aren’t scouring the market before putting an offer down on a property. Lisa Johnson Sevajian, vice president of Coldwell Banker Andover, Massachusetts says, “Buyers...