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What Factors Determine Your Home’s Resale Value? Let’s Take a Look

March 4, 2015 by Robby Oakes

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.

Filed Under: Home Seller Tips Tagged With: Home Seller Tips, Selling a Home, Upgrades and Renovations

Buying a Second Home? Assessing Your Finances to Ensure You Can Afford a Second Mortgage

March 3, 2015 by Robby Oakes

While there may be numerous benefits associated with the purchase of your second home, you may be concerned about how affordable it will be for you to manage the additional expense of a second mortgage payment.

Filed Under: Home Mortgage Tips Tagged With: Buying a Home, Home Mortgage Tips, Mortgage Payments

What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – March 2, 2015

March 2, 2015 by Robby Oakes

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.

Filed Under: Market Outlook Tagged With: Case Shiller, FHFA, Market Outlook

FHFA House Price Index Rises for 14th Consecutive Quarter

February 27, 2015 by Robby Oakes

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 mortgages owned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Filed Under: Market Outlook Tagged With: Federal Reserve, FHFA, Freddie Mac

3 Easy Ways to Put Aside a Bit of Extra Cash So You Can Pay off Your Mortgage Faster

February 26, 2015 by Robby Oakes

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 for 20 or 25 percent or more of your take-home income. Understandably, you may be focused on trying to pay this expense off early.

Filed Under: Home Mortgage Tips Tagged With: Home Mortgage Tips, Mortgage Payments, Mortgages

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