Tag Archives: home owners

New Sellers Tool: Mortgage Rate Buy-Down

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Cliff

New Sellers Tool: Mortgage Rate Buy-Down. Some real estate professionals have begun touting “seller-assisted, below-market-rate financing” on for-sale signs outside of listed homes. They’re also offering interest rate buy-downs, a marketing technique most commonly used in new-home sales by home … Continue reading →

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67% Of Home Owners Planning Home Renovations

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Cliff

Sixty-seven percent of consumers say they’re planning home renovations within the next six months, according to realtor.com®’s Home Improvement Survey of more than 1,500 home owners. They’re planning to spend more money on their home renovations than last year, the … Continue reading →

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More Home Owners Deciding To Sell?

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Cliff

Reports of rising home prices are making selling more attractive to the largest share of home owners in eight years, according to a gauge from the University of Michigan and Thomson Reuters. Few of the home owners surveyed said they … Continue reading →

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Private Mortgage Insurance Underestimated

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Cliff

Sixty-five percent of home owners with private mortgage insurance say that the additional cost of PMI prompted them to pay a higher monthly mortgage payment than they had originally expected, according to a new survey released by TD Bank of … Continue reading →

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Half Of Americans Cannot Afford Their Home

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Cliff

Fifty-two percent of Americans say they’ve had to make at least one major sacrifice in order to cover their rent or mortgage over the last there years, according to the newly released “How Housing Matters Survey,” commissioned by the nonprofit … Continue reading →

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More Home Equity Loans For Home Owners

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Cliff

Home equity lines of credit, or Helocs, and home equity loans soared 8 percent in the first quarter of this year compared to a year earlier, according to Inside Mortgage Business. It marks the largest share of home equity lines … Continue reading →

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Home Owners Have Nowhere To Go After Selling

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Cliff

More home owners say now is a good time to sell, surveys show, but low inventories have them worried about what their next move would be. With fewer homes on the market and quickly rising home prices, sellers are becoming … Continue reading →

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FHA Program Allows Ex-Home Owners To Purchase In 12 Months

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Cliff

Typically, home owners who lost their homes to a short sale or foreclosure are required to wait about 36 months before being able to purchase a primary residence again with a Federal Housing Administration loan. But the FHA’s Back To … Continue reading →

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Positive Equity For 4 Million Homeowners

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Cliff

Rising home prices Rising home prices helped many home owners welcome the return of positive equity in their homes last year. In 2013, 4 million homes returned to positive equity, bringing the total to 42.7 million, CoreLogic reports in its … Continue reading →

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Home Owners Tricked With Deed Scams

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Cliff

Deed Scams Scammers are approaching new home owners and trying to trick them into paying $83 for unnecessary property records — including deeds that are available for a few bucks at county government offices or are already supplied at the … Continue reading →

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