Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Average US 30-Year Mortgage Rate Rises to 3.45 Percent

ortgage giant Freddie Mac said Thursday the average for the benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 3.45 percent from 3.42 percent last week. The average rate is down sharply from 4.04 percent a year ago.
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Friday, July 22, 2016

A Minimalist Manifesto: How To Simplify Your Style at Home

Sometimes, our homes can overwhelm us. What should be a place of retreat and comfort becomes bloated with items not needed, styles experimented with and abandoned, and projects started but never completed. While a good Spring Clean (whenever it happens) is always welcome, sometimes you want to go even further than that and streamline your style, too. Read on for our Minimalist Manifesto, and for ideas on how to simplify your home.
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Thursday, July 21, 2016

Best Places to Live

U.S. News analyzed the 100 most populous metro areas to find the best places to live. To make the top of the list, a place had to have good value, be a desirable place to live, have a strong job market and a high quality of life.
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Friday, July 15, 2016

130 Designer Kitchens for Every Style

Allow these culinary hot spots to stir up major inspiration for your own home.
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Thursday, July 14, 2016

Brexit unlikely to roil U.S. real estate sector, experts say

The turmoil roiling the United Kingdom real estate market since the surprise Brexit outcome is unlikely to trigger similar impact for the U.S. real estate sector, industry experts predict. In fact, some predict U.K pain ultimately could mean U.S. gain.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Foreign buyers flood US real estate, but buy cheaper homes

The appetite for U.S. real estate continues to flourish, but international buyers are shifting their sights from luxury to less-pricey properties. This may be due to overall higher home prices, along with a stronger U.S. dollar, which both cost foreign buyers more at the negotiating table. There are also fewer nonresident foreigners investing in the market.
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Friday, July 8, 2016

How To Make Your Outdoor Space Feel Like Another Room In Your Home (for Less than $100)

As soon as summer hits, you may feel the urge to move everything you own outside so you can live under the sun and stars. Utilizing whatever outdoor area you have is especially important when you call a small space home, because it can give you the dining room, living room, or reading nook your place typically lacks.
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Thursday, July 7, 2016

Will a Sparkling-Clean Home Appraise for More Money?

Selling your home is a long journey, but it doesn’t end with accepting an offer.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Thanks, Brexit! Why UK vote is likely to boost US home sales

The net effect will depend on location and price point, but overall, the Brexit will likely result in continuing growth in home sales with somewhat slower growth in home prices. The impact will benefit well-qualified buyers the most, and it will be a boon for sellers in affordable markets and price points.
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Take the GUESS MY HOME VALUE Challenge and Win Big!

Take the GUESS MY HOME VALUE Challenge and Win Big!
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Thursday, June 30, 2016

A storm is brewing in the real-estate market

In a report released Monday, Pimco's John Murray and Anthony Clarke wrote that the capital flows that propped up the market since the housing crash were decreasing. And that spells trouble ahead.
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United Northern Mortgage Bankers Presents: The Markets in a Minute

Mortgage News and Update
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Thursday, June 16, 2016

First-time buyers are skipping the starter home and saving for the big house in the suburbs

Forget the starter home. Today’s first-time buyers want a place they’ll live in for a long time — possibly even into retirement. And this ideal home is most likely in the suburbs.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Queen's real estate company gives the go-ahead for the world's largest floating wind farm

The world's largest floating wind farm has been given the go-ahead to be built off the coast of Scotland after the company that runs the Queen's real estate granted energy giant Statoil a lease.
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Friday, May 13, 2016

Have a great weekend!

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More millennials can't afford to move out of home than at any other time in the past decade

A Zillow analysis published Thursday showed that the share of people ages 24 to 34 living with their parents had risen every year since 2005, from 13% then to 21.4% in 2014.
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Thursday, May 12, 2016

These keywords for your home listing can help you garner a quicker sale and a higher price

Real estate listings are notorious for using words like “cozy” when a room is small, so savvy buyers have learned to study room dimensions and photos to get a better feel for whether a home might meet their needs.
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Elmhurst, Queens, a ‘Crossroads of the World’

Last September, the Beacon Community Center in Elmhurst, Queens, introduced a free adult literacy program, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL); among those who enrolled were students from Myanmar, China, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Mexico and Venezuela.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Real estate market recap: May 2-6, 2016

The big news in real estate markets, recapped for your convenience
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Friday, May 6, 2016

Have a great weekend!

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Warren Buffett: There Is No Bubble in Real Estate

Warren Buffett says now is a good time to buy a house, though not as good as it was four years ago. Still, Buffett says he thinks the chances of housing prices collapsing are very low.
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Real estate developer behind mystery $50,000 donation

A publicly untraceable $50,000 donation made ahead of the election of newly christened Democratic state Sen. Todd Kaminsky appears to have come from a politically connected real estate developer with significant business before the administration of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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United Northern Mortgage Bankers Presents: The Markets in a Minute


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Thursday, May 5, 2016

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Home Renovation Without Aggravation

Think 2016 might finally be the year to tackle that big home renovation project you’ve been putting off? Welcome to the club. Fueled largely by the rebounding housing market, home improvement spending is projected to reach $155 billion this year, surpassing the peak set in 2006, according to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. At the same time, the construction industry is in the throes of a massive labor shortage, having shed more than 2 million jobs since 2007.
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