Walter Whitehurst Improve Your Home’s Resale Value with Our Guide to Adding a Beautiful Wooden Fence to Your Yard With many types of home improvements, at least a portion of the cost that you put into the improvement can be recouped from additional value when you sell the home. While each project is different, some […]
Walter Whitehurst FOMC Minutes: Housing Market Stable But Slow The minutes of the March meeting of the Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) were released Tuesday and included a staff review of current economic conditions. The minutes noted that while labor markets continued to grow, inflation to the Fed’s target rate of 2.00 percent was […]
Walter Whitehurst Understanding Commissions and How Your Real Estate Agent is Compensated When Your Home Sells When you make the decision to sell your home, you may eagerly seek assistance from a skilled real estate agent. A real estate agent offers important services that can help you to more successfully and easily sell your home […]
One of the more common steps that homeowners will take when preparing to list their home for sale involves interior and exterior home painting. Walls can easily give the home a worn, drab look when they have visible signs of dirty, smudgy fingerprints and other unsightly blemishes. While repainting the walls can have a whitewashing […]
Walter Whitehurst What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – April 6, 2015 Mortgage rates ticked upward for fixed rate loans and were unchanged for 5/1 adjustable rate mortgages according to Freddie Mac. Weekly jobless claims were lower in spite of slower job growth reports. Last week’s economic events included several reports on jobs and […]
Walter Whitehurst Looking for a Fun DIY Project This Spring? How to Plant Your Own Vegetable Garden When spring arrives, many people want to spend more time outdoors enjoying the fresh air and warmer temperatures. While you could lounge in a chair with a good book, you may find it more enjoyable to plant your […]
Walter Whitehurst Buying a New Home This Spring? How to Avoid Overpaying as the Market Starts to Heat Up While the real estate market in most areas may slow down considerably during the winter months, activity quickly picks up in the spring time. More listings are available for buyers to choose from, but there are […]
Walter Whitehurst S&P Case-Shiller: Home Price Growth Slows in 2015 According to the S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index report for January, home prices grew by 4.50 percent year-over-year as compared to January 2014’s year-over-year price growth rate of 10.50 percent. This was the lowest rate of home price growth since 2012. Analysts said that although […]
Walter Whitehurst Understanding Valuations and How a Real Estate Agent Can Determine Your Home’s Value If you are thinking about listing your home for sale, one of the biggest factors that may be holding you back from pulling the trigger on this decision is the value of your home. You may have a decent idea […]
Walter Whitehurst What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – March 30, 2015 Last week’s economic reports included reports on new and existing home sales and FHFA’s monthly home price index for properties associated with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages. The details: New Home Sales Surge, Existing Home Sales Drop According to the Department […]
