Posts Tagged ‘Homebuying’

Dallas Housing Market On Pace for Another Record Year

Dive Brief: Sales of existing single-family homes in Dallas–Fort Worth, TX, during Q1 were on pace to equal or surpass 2016's figures, according to the Dallas Business Journal, making it another record year. Prices for those propertie...

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Home-Seller Confidence Blooms this Spring

The strong March housing market was followed by a significant boost in home-seller confidence this April. In its latest Home-Seller Sentiment Survey, Redfin surveyed nearly 900 homeowners, about 20 percent of whom either said their home was cu...

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5 Reasons You Should Use a “Green” Moving Company

We just celebrated Earth Day, and now is the time to get our green game on and get busy preserving our one and only beautiful earth. Your children and grandchildren will thank you for it. Spring also brings the beginning of the busy moving sea...

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What Home Buyers Want—and How to Give It to Them

                  Think bigger is better? Well, most of today's home shoppers don't. The homes that are in most demand by buyers in a hypercompetitive real estate environme...

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Texas Homebuyers Broaden in Diversity

          A new Texas Homebuyers and Sellers Report released today by the Texas Association of Realtors revealed growing diversity in the household composition and ethnicity of Texas homeowners as well as...

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Here’s What It Typically Takes to Lock in a Home Purchase in Texas

Texas’ housing market is as hot as the state’s scorching summer heat, as the market reaches new peaks in sales and home prices, seemingly to endless heights and unending demand. A new report from the Texas Association of Mortgage Bankers...

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Why Millennial Buyers Are Swiping Left On Your Home

They want it fast, they want it easy, and it better be perfect. That pretty much sums up the typical millennial homebuyer today. So, if that's your target and your house isn't pristine, they're going to move on to one that is. So how do you mak...

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How Far Does Your Dollar Stretch in the North Texas Housing Market?

By Jason Wheeler, WFAA Home prices in North Texas have been on a steady climb. According to Texas A&M statistical reports, the average price of a home has gone from about $191,000 to about $286,000 in the past five years. Perhaps r...

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Mortgage Applications Rise 3.1%

                    By Diana Olick Mortgage interest rates moved to the highest level since 2014 last week, as the Federal Reserve indicated it will more than li...

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Find Extra Money for a Down Payment

In order to buy a home, you need to have a balance of good credit, manageable debt, stable income, and sufficient savings. Maintaining a balance between these four categories is challenging enough on its own, never mind coming up with enough ca...

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