Home Maintenance Activity is Related to Home Sales
It may come as no surprise to anyone looking to buy a home that curb appeal—the way the home looks [...]
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A Look at the Decline in Luxury Home Sales
In 2017 luxury homes—particularly in certain locales—were flying high. The bidding wars seen in the market were not limited to [...]
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How Inventory May Affect Growing Millennial Homebuyer Interest
The Millennial generation, projected to surpass Boomers as the largest living generation in the coming year, is also expected to [...]
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Certain Trends Shaping the Mortgage Market
2019 has brought a number of changes to a mortgage market already beset by alterations in its buyership. And in [...]
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Some Ways Lenders Might Stay Competitive
In a January report on the loan servicer industry, Altisource (a company specializing in providing mortgage, real estate, and technology [...]
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How Do Older and Younger Millennials Differ in Homebuying Preferences?
It may come as no surprise that, when we divide age groups into “generations,” some of the initial divisions made [...]
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What are Some Risks of Tax Lien Investing?
Tax lien investing—wherein an investor purchases a tax lien from a municipality that wants to earn the money from unpaid [...]
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Loan Application Defect Risk Rose in February
Following the 2008 housing crash, lenders and bankers began taking risk and defect management more seriously than they did previously. [...]
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Personal Loans Take a Bite Out of HELOCs
Two posts back, we discussed how the tappable equity that homeowners have available to them is increasingly being left on [...]
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Fewer Regulations Means More Housing Starts
A report by Realtor.com in April conveyed a sense of dismay that, nationwide, the amount of housing construction being done [...]
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Tappable Equity Fell in Q3
In a report by Black Knight looking back on the third quarter of 2018, the organization examined the tappable equity [...]
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Cities With the Most Overleveraged Homeowners
Generally here at Topouzis & Associates, P.C., we consider right now to be a good time to buy a home. [...]
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