How Gen Z Approaches Homeownership
In its Spring 2019 Homebuyer Insights Report, Bank of America chose to feature insights on the youngest upcoming generation of [...]
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Additional Costs to Selling a Home
More than half of homeowners who are looking to sell their home are doing so for the first time—so says [...]
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Providence Among Cities With the Least Risk of Natural Disaster
In a recent Redfin report on disaster-prone and affordable places to live, our service area of Providence, Rhode Island emerged [...]
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Loan Application Fraud Rises
CoreLogic produces a quarterly National Mortgage Fraud Risk Index, in which it assesses the amount of aggregated, collective fraud risk [...]
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Orlando Among High-Performing Metro Areas in Home Price Index Report and Forecast
When ClearCapital released its End of Q1 2019 Home Data Index™ (HDI™) Special Report back in April, the indications were [...]
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Customer Retention For Refinances Grows More Difficult
Refinancing mortgages has become a fairly common occurrence in the past half-decade or so, as the so-called Great Recession passed [...]
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Differences Between First-Time and Repeat Home Buyers
The past two decades have seen interesting shifts in the landscapes of homeownership and purchasing—particularly with regard to the divergence [...]
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Fraud Highlights Flaws in Foreclosure and Blight Practices
The investment in foreclosed properties can be a lucrative and legitimate way to make some extra money if one has [...]
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Boomers in a Housing Boom of Their Own
A lot of press space—including on this blog—has been dedicated of late to the Millennial generation’s impact on the housing [...]
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Challenges Faced When Implementing New Mortgage Technology
There is a lot to look forward to with regard to bringing new technology into the field of mortgage servicing. [...]
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Cities Where Housing is Most Affordable
In an April report, LendingTree examined what makes a middle class household, well, middle class. It parsed this storied group, [...]
READ MORELong-Term Negative Effects of Natural Disasters on Homeownership
While the weather models used by some experts predicted hurricanes were less likely to hit the US in 2019 than [...]
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