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Buying a new home can be an exciting time. It can also be frustrating and exhausting. To help prepare you for home hunting success, here are five important things to know about the market before you schedule your first viewing, or visit your first open house.

Building a new home is a perfect opportunity to customize your space according to your own needs and wants -- and it can also feel completely overwhelming. Many homes built from the ground up will require the new owner to make more than one thousand decisions about…

If you've never fixed and flipped a home before -- but you've watched enough HGTV think it looks like fun -- then you might not think you need a real estate agent to help with the process. What can an agent tell you that you don't already know?

There are plenty of reasons to go green. Conserving energy and running an energy-efficient home can lower your monthly utility bills, saving you some green for your wallet.

Spring Selling Season is Back!Good news in that inventory is up, although not nearly enough to make a dent in our buyer pool, but encouraging none the less! Also in the good news category is that the number of loans in forbearance programs saw it's largest drop in six…

Interest rates are going slightly higher, supply still lowAccording to MarketWatch, mortgage rates have been trending higher with the 30 year going above 3% in the last two weeks. Bond yields have risen and so have mortgage rates. The big question now is how high rates can…

Are we in another housing bubble?These two questions are front and center these days. Below you can see that local prices are still strong, with low inventories continuing to be the story. As far as the question of whether we are in a housing bubble, experts are trying to…

In a society where we refer to our homes as our castles, it makes sense that we also want to feel safe and secure in our residences. But as we spend more time inside looking at screens and less time outside making connections with neighbors, it also makes sense that many…

Rent-to-own agreements have a bad reputation in the real estate industry, but is it deserved? Well, it depends. There are many different kinds of rent-to-own agreements, and each one can be modified and customized for the tenant and the landlord. Many rent-to-own agreements…

Where's the market?Political distractions aside.....US Case Shiller Home Index finished the year with a bang, as US home prices were up 8.41%.While the economy contracted by the sharpest rate on record, it seems as though potential home buyers were not as impacted. Job…