Walter Whitehurst Making the Offer: 4 Ways to Craft an Offer That Will Catch the Seller’s Attention It can take a time and effort to find the perfect home to purchase. After you have found that home, you need to convince the seller that your offer is the one they want to choose. There may […]
Walter Whitehurst Home Security in 2015: Here’s How New Technology Can Keep You Even Safer Securing your home is a top priority, and you will need to make periodic updates and upgrades to your efforts from time to time. Hiring dependable residential gate guards for gated communities can keep you safe and protected. Today’s criminals […]
There are several factors that will help you determine the value of your home when you want to sell it. Location, condition, layout, upgrades, and events relating to your home are all important when selling your home. It’s All About Location Anyone in real estate will tell you location, location, location is the first thing […]
Things are certainly looking up on the national real estate market! According to a recent report from the national Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, home prices increased during the month of January despite cooling home sales. Experts believe that a tightening inventory helped to spur the rise in home prices. This is important information […]
Walter Whitehurst What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – March 2, 2015 Last week provided several housing-related reports including New Home Sales, Pending Home Sales and Existing Home Sales reports. Case-Shiller and FHFA also released data on home prices. The details: Sales of Pre-Owned Homes Hit Nine-Month Low According to the National Association of […]
Walter Whitehurst FHFA House Price Index Rises for 14th Consecutive Quarter According to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), U.S. home prices rose by 1.40 percent for the fourth quarter of 2014 and were up by 0.80 percent month-to-month from November. The seasonally adjusted FHFA House Price Index measures purchase transactions for homes connected with […]
Walter Whitehurst Have You Outgrown Your Current Home? Here Are Five Easy Ways to Tell if It’s Time to Upgrade Your home is your castle, your own little piece of the American dream. But lately, your little corner of the world has been feeling cramped and you find yourself eyeing those larger homes. Is it […]
Walter Whitehurst Case-Shiller: Rising Home Prices Boost Inflation December home prices rose by 0.10 percent according to the Case-Shiller 20-City Home Price Index. The composite report tracks home prices in 20 U.S. cities. December’s results boosted home prices by 4.50 percent year-over-year, which is approximately double the inflation rate for 2014. Analysts note that the […]
Walter Whitehurst Saving Up for Your First Home? Our Guide to Finding Ways to Save Your Down Payment Faster If your goal is to purchase a home, you may find that it’s challenging to save up enough money for your down payment. While this is something that many first time home buyers struggle with, it […]
Walter Whitehurst What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – February 23, 2015 Last week’s housing related reports included the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Housing Market Index for February, The Commerce Department’s report on Housing Starts for January and Freddie Mac’s weekly report on average mortgage rates. The Federal Reserve released the minutes […]
