News About Fort Worth
What Rising Home Prices Mean for You
Keep these tips in mind while buying or selling amid today’s real estate market pressures. Key takeaways: Buyers should adjust their expectations and distinguish between their wants and needs. Sellers need to determine which aspects of an offer are most important to...
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The Cost of a Home Is Far More Important than the Price
Cost VS Price; Why This Is Important Housing inventory is at an all-time low. There are 39% fewer homes for sale today than at this time last year, and buyer demand continues to set records. Zillow recently reported: “Newly pending sales are up 25.5% compared to the...
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Why Is It so Important to Be Pre-Approved in the Homebuying Process?
The First Step To Buying A Home Is To Get Pre-Approved For A Mortgage You may have heard that pre-approval is a great first step in the homebuying process. But why is it so important? When looking for a home, the temptation to fall in love with a house that’s outside...
read moreA Remarkable Recovery For The Housing Market
For months now the vast majority of Americans have been asking the same question: When will the economy turn around? Many experts have been saying the housing market will lead the way to a recovery, and today we’re seeing signs of that coming to light....
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I lost My Job! Can I still Close On My House?
Job Loss and Qualifying For A Mortgage: A home buyer called me yesterday to ask; if she could still close on a transaction even though she had just been laid off? My answer was of course “no,” so she then asked when she could get a loan again, prompting today’s blog...
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Updates for Mortgage Markets and Appraisal Relief
On Friday, there were three major factors pushing up mortgage rates: (1) too much business – lenders are pushing up rates to stem excess volume; (2) too little liquidity – too few buyers of mortgage-backed securities in the marketplace forced lenders to offer higher...
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