Walter Whitehurst What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – March 9, 2015 Last week’s economic news was light on housing related reports, but several employment reports were released along with the national unemployment rate, which dipped to 5.50 percent. This was a full point below the Federal Reserve’s original target rate of 6.50 percent. […]
Walter Whitehurst 3 Easy Ways to Put Aside a Bit of Extra Cash So You Can Pay off Your Mortgage Faster If your personal budget is similar to many other people’s budgets, your home mortgage payment is by far the largest expense that you pay for each month. In fact, this payment may easily account […]
Daylight savings time begins this Sunday, March 8 2015, and is a great way to remember when to check your smoke alarm. While you are adjusting your clock for Daylight Saving Time, check your smoke alarms to make they are working – if they have batteries, replace them with fresh batteries. This simple reminder can […]
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 […]