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Gifting Your Children Their First Home Could Be the Best Holiday Present This Year
Mike Mondello isn’t just a real estate agent. He’s also a parent. And as a parent, he wants the best for his children. That might include helping them buy their first homes. Mondello, managing broker of RE/MAX Synergy with offices … Continue reading
Home Prices Continue Upward Trend in August
(MCT)—Home prices in August rose across a broad swath of large American cities, adding further evidence that a housing recovery is taking shape. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index for the 20 largest metropolitan areas in the country rose … Continue reading
Home Price Appreciation Helps Housing Move Forward on Road to Recovery
Sparked by rising home prices across much of the nation, the housing recovery is now under way, but fiscal uncertainties and other challenges could result in a bumpy ride in the coming months, according to economists participating in a recent … Continue reading
Pending Home Sales Rise Slightly
(MCT)–Signed contracts to buy previously owned homes rose in September, but not by much, according to a trade group report. Pending sales inched up 0.3 percent to 99.5 from 99.2 in August, according to an index of pending sales from … Continue reading
MBA Data Suggest Mortgage Demand for Home Purchase Is in Early Stages of Recovery
According to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), the seasonally adjusted total mortgage applications index, a measure of mortgage demand, declined by 4.2 percent in the week ending on October 12, 2012. The reported decline in the weekly total mortgage applications … Continue reading
Home Inspections: Then and Now – Dan Steward Brings Home Inspection into the Future
It was one very bad experience with a real estate transaction that left entrepreneur Mike Brewer thinking there had to be a way to professionalize the home inspection industry. Like many serial entrepreneurs, after an unsatisfactory business transaction (in Brewer’s … Continue reading
Rand on Real Estate: A New Class of Home Buyer – the Institutional Investor
Enormous capital has been raised over the last two year for the expressed purpose of buying single family homes and renting them out. This trend dwarfs the new construction boom in terms of real dollars and earning potential for our … Continue reading
Choosing a Professional Home Inspector
There are approximately 30,000 home inspectors nationwide today. Only about half of the states require any kind of certification or licensing for home inspectors. So how do you know you are recommending the best home inspectors to your clients? Hiring … Continue reading