Walter Whitehurst What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – April 27, 2015 Last week’s housing related reports included the FHFA Home Price Index, the National Association of Realtors® Existing Home Sales report and The Commerce Department’s report on new home sales. Results were mixed, but suggest that housing markets are strengthening. FHFA Home Prices […]
Walter Whitehurst Staging Tips: Let’s Talk Landscaping and How to Prepare Your Yard for the Spring Bloom When you are preparing to list your home for sale, you may take various steps to stage the interior so that it is appealing to a potential buyer. In addition to various steps you may take with staging […]
Walter Whitehurst Home Buying Horror Stories: How Buying a Home Can Go Wrong – and How to Avoid These Mistakes When you buy a home, you may have dreams of settling into a beautiful new space that meets your needs and that your family can feel comfortable in. While many will enjoy this vision of […]
Walter Whitehurst First-time Real Estate Investor? Here Are 3 Helpful Tips That Will Get You Started Real estate investing comes with many benefits that you may be eager to start taking advantage of. For example, the right rental property can provide you with monthly cash flow coupled with equity appreciation, tax deductions and more, and […]
Walter Whitehurst You Ask, We Answer: How Long Should It Take to Sell My House in the Spring? Depending on where you live, selling your house in the spring could take a few weeks to a few months. Although people are in the market to buy a home all throughout the year, spring time appeals […]
Walter Whitehurst What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – April 20, 2015 Last week’s economic reports included the NAHB Wells Fargo Housing Market Index, Housing Starts, and Freddie Mac’s weekly survey of mortgage rates. Other news included the weekly jobless claims report and consumer sentiment for April. Mortgage Rates, Jobless Claims Rise Mortgage rates […]
Walter Whitehurst Ready to Relocate? 3 Tips on How to Set a Moving Budget That Won’t Break the Bank Relocating to a new area can be exciting, but it can also be expensive. There are many resources to help, but most cost money. However, if you take your time and plan carefully, you can reduce […]
Walter Whitehurst Home Builder Confidence Rises in April The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported that April’s Housing Market Index rose from a reading of 52 in March to 56 for April. This is in line with warmer weather and the peak home buying season in spring and summer. Readings over 50 indicate that […]
In the latest sign that the U.S. real estate market is improving, more Americans signed contracts to purchase homes in February than in nearly a year. The National Association of Realtors released the data, which showed that the seasonally adjusted pending home sales index increased 3.1 percent to 106.9 in February. That’s the highest it’s been […]
Walter Whitehurst How Does Making Lump Sum Payments Affect Your Mortgage? Let’s Take a Look Periodically, many homeowners will receive a rather sizable amount of extra cash. This may be from a bonus from your employer, a refund on your tax return, a financial gift from a relative or something else altogether. While there are […]
