Category Archives: Buying a Home
Prices Are Cooling, But a Wave of Potential Buyers Is Coming Soon
Source: Zillow If you thought there were a lot of first-time home buyers over the past 10 years, check out what’s coming: An extra 3.11 million people at prime first-time home-buying age. From 2019 through 2028, 44.9 million people will … Continue reading →
The Case for Hiring a Home Stager When You’re Selling
The Case for Hiring a Home Stager When You’re Selling Click above link to read full story While home staging was created primarily to benefit the seller, seeing prospective properties in their best light also can be advantageous to buyers … Continue reading →
First-Time Buyers Have Bought 985K Homes This Year
Source: REALTOR® Magazine Home sales may be slowing overall, but not among first-time home buyers, according to a new report. Making sense of the story Genworth Mortgage Insurance culled all publicly available government and proprietary mortgage industry data to see … Continue reading →
Want to live in a California city where your salary goes further? Move to Sacramento, study says
Source: The Sacreamento Bee Not only is Sacramento’s cost of living lower than in many other metropolitan areas in California, but its strong job market makes the region a top destination for people looking to move. A new report by … Continue reading →
Housing tipping back to a buyer’s market as sellers cut prices
Source: CNBC After several years of rich home price gains, the market appears to have found a limit to what people can afford. Sellers are finally responding by lowering prices more often. Approximately 14 percent of all listings in June … Continue reading →
Millennials create new trend: Couples who don’t want to rush to marry, but still want to buy a house
Source: CNBC Marriage and homeownership have long gone hand in hand. If you’re a husband or a wife, your likelihood of owning property swells by nearly 20 percentage points, according to the Urban Institute. But millennials, born between 1981 and … Continue reading →
In May, sales of previously-owned homes slumped, the second month in a row of declining sales. The National Association of Realtors, which tracks those sales, pointed to the same culprit it’s blamed for the past few years: not enough supply of homes to buy.
Source: Market Watch In May, sales of previously-owned homes slumped, the second month in a row of declining sales. The National Association of Realtors, which tracks those sales, pointed to the same culprit it’s blamed for the past few years: … Continue reading →
