Traditionally in the U.S. housing market, the seller has offered the buyer’s broker and agent a share in the commission…
Last year, U.S. homeowners faced an average property tax bill exceeding $4,000, marking the highest increase in five years, according…
Congratulations on your offer being accepted! In many cases, you may have a provision in your sales contract for a…
With mortgage rates having doubled what they were in early 2022, getting the lowest rate possible could mean the difference…
An appraisal gap describes the difference between the sales price and the lower amount of the appraisal required by the…
Builders of new homes offer or are required to warrant their work for a specified period. Municipal inspections are generally…
Like opening and closing a faucet increases and decreases the water flow, lowering interest rates increases home sales and raising…
Nobel Prize recipient, Richard Thaler, in his research into seemingly irrational economic behaviors, “found that consumers generally search too little,…
A person’s decision to sell their home comes with a lot of other decisions causing an owner to stress or…
Doing nothing may be a lot more costly than doing something. With rates twice what they were in 2021 and the…
There are fees and expenses associated with mortgages that must be paid by the closing date for closing costs, and…
Sales in February 2023 were up 14.5% month over month and still down 22.6% year over year according to the…
The housing market in 2021 and part of 2022 was anything but normal. Mortgage rates were at all time lows and…
There are tools and techniques available to help with particular situations. They might be more popular at certain times and might…
If you’ve ever been in a Monopoly game after most of the properties have been purchased and developed, it can…