How Area Noise Has Been Shown to Affect Home Valuations
From time to time we encounter a client who has bought, or is considering buying, a home in an otherwise [...]
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Debt-to-Income (DTI) Ratio: What it is and How it May Affect You
When it comes to obtaining a loan for the purpose of purchasing a property, a lender naturally needs ways by [...]
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Hurricanes Cause an Increased Rate of Home Repair and Maintenance
When our communities are forced into a stare-down with the eye of a hurricane—such as 2018’s hurricanes Florence and Michael, [...]
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Which Zone of Housing is Most Costly For Homeowners?
Zoning ordinances are a standard feature of American real estate markets. These are sets of laws that set aside for [...]
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Home Appraisals—How They Affect, and Reflect, the Market
The home appraisal is a valuable tool used by lenders to determine the amount of money they are willing to [...]
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Where Property Values are Expected to Rise
Even despite the perception of a slowdown in the rise of prices of homes across the nation, there are always [...]
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How Do the Hearty Economy and the Labor Shortage Affect Home-Ownership?
We at Topouzis & Associates, P.C., keep a keen eye on the vicissitudes of the economy and the housing market. [...]
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What Is Today’s Middle-Class—and Where Do They Find Housing?
An early-October report by the Brookings Institute examined 382 metropolitan areas in order to take stock of the size of [...]
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How a Housing Foreclosure Crisis Can Re-arrange the Housing Landscape
A housing foreclosure crisis is a seismic economic event. When many people are losing their homes to foreclosure, it means [...]
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What Does The Increasingly Limited House Inventory Mean for First-Time Homebuyers?
The news media has been flush of late with concern about the housing market. The concern, stemming from the natural [...]
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Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac … What do These Names Refer To?
If someone pays even a cursory level of attention to news about real estate, they hear the names Fannie Mae [...]
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Standing Solutions for Victims of Hurricane Michael from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
When Hurricane Michael slammed into our Florida service area, the good people of this great state were subjected to the [...]
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