Posts Tagged ‘buying a home’
8 Steps To Take Now To Prepare To Buy a Home in 2021 By BiggerPockets
Is 2021 the year you become a homeowner? Or make that long-overdue trade up to a larger home that fits your growing family? Buying a home is the largest financial transaction and the largest asset most Americans ever own. It’s usually...
8 Dumb Reasons People Can’t Buy a Home By Realtor.com
akurtz/Getty Images Buying a home—especially if it’s your first—can be a lot like losing weight in the sense that people end up doing, well, some pretty dumb stuff in the process. But while desperate dieters might waste...
You Don’t Need 20% Down and Seven Other Myths That Are Getting in the Way of Homeownership By RealtyTimes
Think you need to come up with 20% for a down payment in order to buy a house? It might surprise you to know that the median down payment for first-time buyers last year was just 7%, per the National Association of Realtors...
How Much to Offer on a House: Should You Go Below or Above Asking Price? By Realtor.com
How much should you offer on a house? The not-so-simple answer: It depends on the market you're in, the list price, what kind of mortgage you, as the potential home buyer, are comfortable with, and many other factors that you should weigh ...
The New Rules for Buying a House in 2021 By MSN.com
|© Copyright 2020 Ad Practitioners, LLC. All Rights Reserved. The New Rules for Buying a House in 2021 If you’re ready to take the plunge into homeownership, get a head start on packing.© Arad Golan Coll for Money Homebuying-Ti...
9 Grown-Up Things Every New Homeowner Should Have By Realtor.com
Dean Mitchell Congratulations on buying your new home! You survived the hardest parts: making an offer, mortgage approval, the home inspection, and closing. Whew! Go ahead and take a moment to pat yourself on the back. You earned it. But...
How Much Does Location Really Matter When Buying A Home? By RealtyTimes
The old saying, "Location, location, location" is more like a mantra when it comes to real estate. Buy in the wrong one and you could be setting yourself up for financial ruin. Or at least an unhappy experience. Right? In some cases, ye...
The Insane Juggling Act of Trying To Buy and Sell a House During a PandemicBy Realtor.com
John M Lund Photography Inc / Getty Images Buying and selling a home simultaneously is a stressful juggling act at any point. So what's it like to simultaneously buy and sell real estate during the coronavirus pandemic? In April, my...