How the Industry Decreases Defect Risk Using Technology
The title search, title insurance, and mortgage manufacturing and underwriting industries are, like every other aspect of American life, in [...]
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The Recent Rise in New Home Sales
While we’ve seen a recent relative drop in prices and demand for homes, the fact remains that the demand for [...]
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Rhode Island’s Decision to Extend Homeowner Foreclosure Protections
In the wake of 2010’s mortgage foreclosure crisis, Rhode Island—whose previous regulations had been fairly lenient toward lenders with regard [...]
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The 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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Trends 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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“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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Ways 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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Why 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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Fed 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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What 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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Listing 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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Here 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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