The recent news that the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates for the first time in eight years has key implications for the real estate market.
If we think of the economic cycle, and the last recession representing winter, we have been through spring and most of summer already. Interest rate ...
With almost perfect timing, the beginning of the busy spring buying season has seen the lowest mortgage rates for over a year.
Just three weeks ago, 30 year fixed rate home loans saw the biggest single week decline in over a decade!
The positive results of this are already being ...
As summer begins to draw to a close, it usually happens that some would-be home sellers decide to delay listing their property until the New Year, in the hope of even better returns in future.
While that strategy may have worked very well in recent years, this year there are ...
We recently read an important statistic on current buyer demand that we thought we should share with you.
It comes from real estate listings analysts ShowingTime. The company has been publishing its Showing Index® for over four years. This is essentially a measure of viewings per residential property by agents ...
According to MoneyBox, a blog about business and economics, the White House announced new efforts to put more solar panels in subsidized housing.
The New York Times reports that the administration “intends to triple the capacity of solar and other renewable energy systems it installs in federally subsidized housing by 2020, make it ...
According to the Washington Post, a buyer who puts 20 percent down would need to earn a salary of $48,604 to afford the median-priced home in America. But that total varies a lot from city to city. South Florida ranks in the middle with a salary of $58,431 ...
According to a recent article by Paul Owers in the Sun-Sentinal, the South Florida's housing market is steadily improving and closing in on a benchmark stable range.
According to a recent article in the Los Angeles Times by Kenneth R. Harney, the best time to list is actually in the Winter.
Winter — officially Dec. 21 through March 20 for the upcoming season — can be a surprisingly advantageous time to list, shop, negotiate and buy ...
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Posted in Did you Know, by Jed Smith, Managing Director, Quantitative Magazine on September 5, 2014:
About 59 percent of Realtors reported that a sample of buyers in July had a FICO credit score of 740 and above. In the 2001-04 time frame, approximately 40 percent of residential loans aquired ...
Inman News recently ranked drones as one of the top ten Real Estate trends to look out for in 2014. In a recent interview with Matt Murphy, owner of Boston Virtual Imaging, Inman News sought to shed some light on the issue. Here is what Murphy had to say ...
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