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In this series, Topouzis & Associates, P.C. experts research and explore trends, sales strategies, demographics and dynamics poised to change the real estate industry.
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November 13, 2018What the HUD Florida Disaster Plan for Victims of Irma May Mean for You
At Topouzis & Associates, P.C., we proudly serve customers in the Florida market who are seeking title search services for [...]
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November 12, 2018The Link Between Student Loan Debt Payoff and Home Purchasing
We imagine that to our readers it will come as little surprise to learn—given the ever-increasing cost of higher education [...]
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November 09, 2018Trends in Home-buying: Are Millennials Getting in the Market?
It’s easy to fall susceptible to some of the mis-information floating around about the “Millennial” generation. It’s remarkable just how [...]
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November 08, 2018“Who is This Guy?”: The Role of the Closing Attorney
While we would like to believe that the attorney’s role in the home-buying process is common knowledge, it’s clear that [...]
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November 07, 2018Ways Buyers Can Avoid Remorse in a Low Inventory Market
Any time we enter a seller’s market, the amount of buyer’s remorse goes on the rise—particularly with regards to the [...]
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November 06, 2018Why Summer is Primetime for REO Sales
Part of the REO game is making sales as quickly as possible, in order to reduce the amount of lost [...]
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November 05, 2018Fed Raising Interest Rates Means Higher Bar for Obtaining Mortgages
On the 26th of September, the Federal Reserve moved to raise the target range for the federal funds rate from [...]
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November 02, 2018What Prospective Parents May Not Know to Look for in a Home
We often find that among first-time home buyers—that grand cohort that accounted for 46% of mortgages in the first quarter [...]
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November 01, 2018Listing Prices Begin to Fall as Buyers’ Fatigue Sets In, But Single-Family Construction Permits are Down
It seems as though the market’s price-rise may be cooling off at last. In July and August, the prices at [...]
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October 31, 2018Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Peabody, Massachusetts Makes Realtor.com’s Hottest Markets of 2018
Each year, Realtor.com’s team of economics analysts pores over the housing market data gathered from throughout the United States and, [...]
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October 29, 2018What a Recent Michigan Home Foreclosure Case May Mean for You
In July, a two-year-old case in Michigan, Morningside Community Organization, et al, v. Eric Sabree, et al, went into settlement, [...]
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October 26, 2018“Zombie” Homes: What They Are and Issues to Consider
Where the process of foreclosure on a home—and the prospective change in title ownership that goes with it—are concerned, there [...]
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October 24, 2018The Current Status of Homeowner Demand
It would seem that there are reasons for both hope and concern in the most recent data on the state [...]
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October 22, 2018Why Americans Prefer to Buy Suburban Homes (For Now)
The number of factors that go into the desirability of certain kinds of home-ownership are legion. Americans are a striving [...]
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October 17, 2018Land Recording or Land Registration—Which Applies to My Property?
There are two different types of “property title systems” that apply in the United States. I deal with both of [...]
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October 10, 2018A Brief History of Title Insurance in the United States
I’m the sort of guy who likes to know how and why things work the way they do. So I [...]
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October 03, 2018How Does a Title Search Ensure Clear Title?
I understand why clients ask me, “So what do you do, exactly?” I work in a very specific area of property, [...]
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September 27, 2018What’s the Worst that Could Happen?—Hazards of Not Getting Title Insurance
When a client considers going without an Owner’s Policy of title insurance, it almost makes my hair curl. Life is [...]
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September 19, 2018How To Get Title Insurance
In my years of dealing in real estate transactions, one thing has become clear: when you’re looking to buy a [...]
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September 12, 2018What Does an Owner’s Policy of Title Insurance Cover?
I always recommend to purchasers of a home or other property that they be sure to get themselves an Owner’s [...]
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September 05, 2018What is the Difference Between Lender’s Title Insurance and Owner’s Title Insurance Policies?
In the world of real estate closings, I regularly deal with two different types of title insurance: Lender’s Title Insurance [...]
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August 28, 2018Why Does a Home-Buyer Need Title Insurance?
In last week’s post I discussed how title insurance is designed to protect a home-buyer from events that transpired in [...]
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August 21, 2018How is Title Insurance Different from Other Forms of Insurance?
Sometimes when we’re discussing the necessity for title insurance, I’ll have a client question its utility. This question often comes [...]
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August 14, 2018What is Title Insurance?—The Basics
I often find that, especially among new home-buyers, there is some confusion about exactly what title insurance is. It’s a [...]
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November 14, 2017Price of Single-Family Homes in Rhode Island on Rise
The median sales price of single-family homes in Rhode Island for September rose by 13.1% over the same month last [...]
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October 25, 2017Tampa Ranks as 6th Top City for Home Flipping
A new report by WalletHub ranks the best and worst cities for flipping houses in the U.S., and Tampa made [...]
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September 27, 2017The Median Price of Single-Family Homes in MA Tops $400k
The median sales price of single-family homes in Massachusetts rose above $400k this summer for the first time, with some [...]
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September 18, 2017Does $2 Million+ Buy a Better Home in Florida or Rhode Island?
A recent article in the New York Times compared how much house you could get for around $2.4 million in [...]
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August 30, 2017Homebuyers Turning to Smaller Cities for Affordable Homes
More homebuyers are leaving the largest, most expensive cities to seek out affordable housing in mid-tier cities, according to a [...]
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August 07, 2017Welcome to the new Topouzis & Associates, P.C. Website!
Topouzis & Associates, P.C. is pleased to announce the launch of its new user-friendly website featuring a modern, responsive design [...]
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July 31, 2017Why work with a law firm instead of a title company?
In many, but not all, states, both attorneys and title companies may act as closing agents and issue title insurance. [...]
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July 17, 2017Why Tech is the Future of Real Estate
Nav Athwal reported in Forbes on #NewTech in real estate in his article, “Predicting the 2017 Winners in Real Estate [...]
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June 30, 201710 Biggest Real Estate Comeback Cities in the U.S.
If you’re a real estate investor, your job is all about knowing the state of this or that housing market. [...]
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