Help Sell My Home Fast: Should I Sell My House and Carry the Contract?
September 21, 2012
in Tips When Selling a Home Tagged contract, financing, homeowner, lender, lending, loan, loans, mortgage, owner, property, real estate, sell, seller, sellingIn slow markets, when homes just don’t seem to move as quickly as we’d like them to, offering seller financing may be the key to getting a home sold. With the sluggish real estate market of the last few years, seller financing has been dramatically increasing in popularity, but is it a smart move for […]
Housing Starts Drop, but Home Builders are Optimistic
Housing Starts Drop in December Some chilling news for the housing market. In December, builders broke ground on fewer homes than what analysts had expected, dampening enthusiasm about a quick market turnaround. Housing starts fell 4.1 percent to a 657,000 annual rate, according to the Commerce Department. Analysts polled by Bloomberg were expecting an annual […]
Real Estate News: Do We Need Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?
September 16, 2011
in This Week in Real Estate Tagged fannie mae, florida, foreclosure, freddie mac, mortgageThere’s a flicker of hope despite the nightmarish poverty and unemployment numbers released in the past week. Signaling that the government is indeed concerned about the housing market situation, top Senate lawmakers started debating housing finance reforms at a Congressional panel. Among the issues taken up were whether to wind down government backed entities Fannie […]