Walter Whitehurst What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – May 11, 2015 Last week’s scheduled economic reports primarily revolved around the jobs sector. The federal government released reports on Nonfarm Payrolls, the national unemployment rate and weekly report on new jobless claims. ADP issued its monthly report on private sector payrolls. Readings on labor […]
Walter Whitehurst Real Estate Roundup: The Top 5 Apps to Use When Buying or Selling a Home Whether you are buying property, selling property or both, the process can be challenging, stressful and even overwhelming at times. Just as you may use various mobile apps to streamline and simplify other aspects of your life, you […]
Walter Whitehurst Buying a Rental Property? How to Choose Between Single-Family and Multi-Family Homes Entering into the real estate market requires time and monetary commitment. Depending on the purpose for purchasing rental property determines whether one should invest in a single family or multi-family dwelling. In either case, one should prepare short or long term […]
Walter Whitehurst Thinking About Selling Your Own Home? Think Again – Why You’ll Want to Work with a Real Estate Agent There is no requirement for a homeowner to work with a real estate agent when selling a property, and many homeowners consider saving themselves the cost of a real estate agent’s commission fee in […]
Walter Whitehurst Buying a Home? What to Do if Problems Are Found During the Final Home Inspection As a home buyer, you may go through a number of different steps to ensure that the property that you purchase is in great condition. For example, you may complete an initial walk-through or even several home tours […]
Walter Whitehurst What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – May 4, 2015 Last week’s economic news included S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index reports, the Fed’s FOMC meeting statement and pending home sales. Freddie Mac mortgage rates and weekly jobless claims were also released as usual. The details: Case-Shiller: Denver Leads Home Price Gains in […]
Regardless of where you live, experts are expecting that Baby Boomers will have a major impact on the local housing market. That’s because this sizeable portion of the population is comprised of 76.4 million individuals. And many of them are expected to make major moves over the next several years as they continue to retire. […]
Walter Whitehurst Selling a Large Family Home? How to Stage Your Home to Appeal to Family Buyers Selling a large house requires showing buyers its potential as a place where they can raise their families, enjoy space to grow, and make it their own. Preparing a large house can be a big task. There are […]
Walter Whitehurst The Three Essential Habits That Successful Home Buyers Must Embrace Whether you are preparing to purchase your first home or it has been many years since you last walked through the home buying process, you may be starting to feel overwhelmed at the thought of all of the work that lies in front […]
Walter Whitehurst Case-Shiller: 20-City Home Price Index Hits 6 Month High According to the Case-Shiller 20-City Home Price Index for February, month-to-month home prices increased by 0.50 percent from January’s reading and achieved the highest year-over-year gain in six months. Analysts expected February home prices to increase by 4.80 percent. David Blitzer, chairman of the […]