Blog tagged as Buyers

If you’re intimidated by how much you need to save for a down payment it may be because you believe you must put 20% down. That doesn’t necessarily have to be the case.

Here are two fundamentals that prove this is one of the most foundationally strong housing markets of our lifetime – if not the strongest housing market of our lifetime.

If you’re thinking about buying for the first time or selling your current house to move into a home that better fits your needs, you may be asking yourself these two questions: Why Are Mortgage Rates So High? When Will Rates Go Back Down?

Owning a home grows your net worth over time as your home appreciates in value and as you pay down your mortgage.

Buying a home as a first-time homebuyer is a vision you can bring to life, but you’ll have to overcome some factors that have made it more challenging in recent years.

The pandemic profoundly changed real estate over the last few years. The demand for a home of our own skyrocketed as people needed a home office and a big backyard. Now, things are getting back to normal. The ‘unicorns’ have galloped off.

If we take a year-over-year view, home prices stayed positive. To get a more detailed picture of some of the trends in the market, we need to look at monthly data.

The data clearly shows today’s market is very different than it was before the housing crash in 2008.

Home affordability is based on more than just mortgage rates – it’s determined by a combination of mortgage rates, home prices, and wages. Let's see how each of them affect affordability.

98% of millennials want to become a homeowner at some point if they aren’t already. Here’s why other millennials have made that decision.