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Home Prices
Why Now Is a Great Time To Sell Your House
Why Now is the Time to Sell Your House. As we near the end of the year, more homeowners are realizing the benefits of today’s sellers’ market. Record-breaking home price appreciation, growing equity, low inventory, and competitive mortgage rates are motivating homeowners to make a move that addresses their changing lifestyles. In fact, recent data from realtor.com shows a larger share of homeowners are planning […]
How Smart Buyers Are Approaching Rising Mortgage Rates
How Smart Buyers Are Approaching Rising Mortgage Rates How Smart Buyers Are Approaching Rising Mortgage Rates Last week, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate from Freddie Mac inched up to 3.1%, and experts project rates will continue rising through 2022: “The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 2.9% in the third quarter of 2021. We forecast mortgage rates to increase slightly […]
What’s Happening with Home Prices? Have they Peaked?
What’s happening with home prices? Much like all other economic activity, it is all cyclical. What goes up, most like will come down. Knowing when and how to act makes the big difference. Home prices have been on the way up for a while so it makes sense to wonder how much longer this will […]
Important Distinction: Homes Are Less Affordable, Not Unaffordable
Important Distinction: Homes Are Less Affordable, Not Unaffordable It’s impossible to research the subject. Buying a home without coming across a headline declaring that the fall in home affordability is a crisis. However, when we add context to the most recent affordability statistics, we soon realize that, though homes are less affordable than they have been over […]
Is the Future of Home Prices Bright?
If you’re looking to buy or sell a house, chances are you’ve heard talk about today’s rising home prices. And while this increase in home values is great news for sellers, you may be wondering what the future holds.