Most homebuyers spend about as much time researching their next television purchase as they do their mortgage lender, compounding mortgage lenders’ struggles standing out from their competitors.
As we head into the spring market, predictions that 2022 would see home prices continue on their record tear, posting another year of double-digit increases, no longer looks like a sure bet.
Sellers who jump on offers from buyers waiving the opportunity to hire an independent home inspector may rue the day they did so.
Having a run-in with the law is one of the quickest ways to disqualify yourself from homeownership, and other bites of housing news for your holiday weekend.
In today’s high-pressure market, where being first with an offer isn’t necessarily the key to getting it accepted, the entire process can sap the energy out of even the most prepared wannabes.
The share of Americans who would be hesitant to move to an area where most people have political views different from their own has increased by 31 percent since June.
Buying sight-unseen doesn’t mean you have to go into the transaction blindfolded. There are several ways you can protect yourself against the possibility the house you’re after isn’t what you thought it was.
For all the personal and financial damage the coronavirus pandemic has caused, it has also given new impetus to what had been a slow-moving trend toward healthier homes. And it’s easy to see why.
In a sign homebuyers in other parts of the country the country may be recovering from the shock of the coronavirus, purchase mortgage applications increased for the second week in a row, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
The Federal Reserve’s latest installment of its Beige Book is out, and it reports participants in the residential and commercial real estate industries expressed serious concerns about the health of their respective industries.
In another indication the coronavirus is softening the housing market, applications for purchase mortgages fell by 11 percent nationwide last week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
As the coronavirus pandemic arrives at the doorstep of the spring homebuying season, the rules of househunting are changing as well.
A company founded by a pair of housing nonprofits has launched what they say is the country’s first independent app dedicated to helping first-time and first-generation homebuyers navigate through the entire homeownership journey.
Four months after receiving $1.4 million in seed funding, a Boston-based real estate app developer is opening a San Francisco office to spearhead West Coast expansion.
Parents can take a number of steps to help their offspring purchase their first homes. But beware, lest Mom and Dad steamroll their kids’ real opinions, needs and desires.
People buy fixers for all sorts of reasons. Money, of course, is the main factor. But many simply like the house or the neighborhood, and a healthy minority figured they’d enjoy working on the place.
Younger generations are starting to buy more homes, according to a new analysis that found, while homeownership rates as a whole are on the decline, the homeownership rate in the under-35 bracket actually increased.
Homeowners who sell their houses “as-is” may end up costing themselves more than they would have spent to make the necessary repairs – if they are able to sell their homes at all.
At the office, some people are trying to turn rising home prices to their advantage.
The parent company of Randolph-based Envision Bank is coming off its best quarter since 2017 and since the bank rebranded from Randolph Savings Bank, attributing the success to moves it has made in its mortgage division.
