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March 2015 - Posts
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If you’re planning a move , you may have an overwhelming urge to throw all your possessions into cardboard boxes , tape them shut and think, “I’ll deal with this after moving!” We get it. But before you start dumping drawers into Read More...
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Consider this a gift to home buyers: Mortgage interest rates dipped to 3.78% this week, just in time for the spring housing market. For people who are in the process of buying a house, our best advice is to lock in your rate now. “This is the last Read More...
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We all want to be smart about refinancing our mortgage. Done right, it can save thousands of dollars in interest and lower your monthly mortgage payment. Done wrong, it can be a money loser if you have to sell. So don’t just pay attention to interest Read More...
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Buying a House can be a scavenger hunt -- or a feeding frenzy -- depending on where you live. Nationally, home prices were up a little over 5% last year, and Fannie Mae Chief Economist Douglas Duncan expects about a 4.5% average increase this year. Overall, Read More...
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Price trumped all in the real estate market across Southern California in February, a recurring dynamic that had a hand in keeping a clamp on sales, according to a new real estate report. The CoreLogic DataQuick report Tuesday says the median price of Read More...
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Foreclosure activity in the Riverside County region in February fell to levels not seen since July 2006, according to a new report from RealtyTrac. That time frame is significant because homebuilding and homebuying were in a frenzy about 8 1/2 years ago. Read More...
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Veterans Affairs home loans offer big-time benefits for qualified buyers, from no down payment or mortgage insurance to more flexible and forgiving requirements. But this is also a specialized loan program aimed at helping veterans and military members Read More...
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If you’re a first-time home buyer , you might get a little queasy when the last line of your good-faith estimate comes in at several thousand dollars. And after the color returns to your face, you might also be a little more than perplexed by some Read More...
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Foreclosure resales represented 5.7 percent of the resale market in January. That was up from a revised 5.3 percent in December 2014 and down from 6.6 percent in January 2014. In recent months the foreclosure resale rate has been the lowest since early Read More...
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If you think you can’t get a deal much better than a 3% down payment on a home, you might be surprised. There are more than 2,000 down payment assistance programs nationwide that can drastically reduce the amount of money buyers need to pay at closing. Read More...
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In its 10 years of existence, online real estate database Zillow ( Z ) has collected an unfathomable amount of information on housing prices. In the new book "Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate," CEO Spencer Rascoff and chief economist Read More...
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CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider, today released its January 2015 Southern California housing market report. Home sales in January fell sharply from December, as they normally Read More...
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