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2012 

Home Affordability Reaches New High In Q1 2012 Falling mortgage rates and stagnant home prices are making a positive effect on home affordability nationwide. Never before in recorded history have so many homes been affordable to households earning a moderate annual income. Last week, the National...
05/29/2012
Single-Family Housing Starts Powers Ahead The new construction housing market continues to improve. One day after the National Association of Homebuilders reported a 5-year high in homebuilder confidence, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that single-family housing starts rose 2 percent for the seco...
05/17/2012
Home Affordability Getting A Springtime Boost From Greece Home affordability is receiving a boost from across the Atlantic Ocean this spring. For the third time in as many years, a weakening Eurozone is pushing May mortgage rates to new lows throughout New York and nationwide. The story centers i...
05/15/2012
05/11/2012
Mortgage Rates Make New All-Time Lows (Again) Conforming mortgage rates continue to drop. For the second straight week, the 30-year fixed rate mortgage fell to a new, all-time low nationwide. According to Freddie Mac’s weekly mortgage rate survey, the average 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate drop...
05/10/2012
Reverse Mortgages : Pros And Cons   Despite several big-name banks pulling the product from their respective home loan offerings, reverse mortgages remain a popular mortgage choice among homeowners aged 62 or over. A reverse mortgage is exactly what it sounds like — a mortgage in reverse. Rather ...
05/09/2012
05/07/2012
Planning For A Memorial Day Closing Planning to close on your home at the end of May? Plan ahead. Memorial Day is coming and the holiday may delay your closing. Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer and the 3-day Memorial Day weekend is a popular vacation time in real estate-related i...
05/06/2012
05/04/2012
Make A Mortgage Rate Plan Ahead Of The Jobs Report Been shopping for a mortgage rate? You may want to lock something down. Tomorrow morning, mortgage rates are expected to change. Unfortunately, we don’t know in which direction they’ll move. It’s a risky time for Florida home buyers to be without...
05/03/2012
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