Every year, team leader and Inman contributor Brandon Doyle delves through newly published real estate and sales books so that you don’t have to. Here are his top picks for 2020. If it’s January, it’s Agent Appreciation Month at Inman.[...]
Posted on January 15th, 2021 Queue the panic. Mortgage rates have officially spiked and the media is all over it. Yep, the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage increased from 2.65% to 2.79% this week, per Freddie Mac’s weekly survey. Freddie [...]
Mortgage Q&A: “What is a streamline refinance?” While qualifying for a mortgage refinance is generally a lot harder than it has been in the past (now that lenders actually care how your home loan performs), there are less cumbersome options [...]
Clever Real Estate’s latest survey revealed the average American’s non-mortgage debt burden increased by $7,512 in 2020 due to booming unemployment. The coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing economic fallout pushed millions of Americans to[...]
Posted on January 7th, 2021 While 30-year fixed mortgage rates tend to steal all the headlines, 15-year fixed mortgage rates quietly reached record lows this week as well, per Freddie Mac’s weekly survey. This morning, Freddie announced that the[...]
There’s nothing inherently wrong with living with your parents, other than EVERYTHING! So let’s talk about how to GET OUT! To be clear, I’m going to discuss moving out and buying a place of your own, not moving out and renting, seeing that the[...]
2020 was a year of record-low mortgage rates, but pandemic-fueled homebuyer demand and sharp drops in inventory sent home prices soaring, eroding mortgage affordability in more than half of the country’s largest cities, according to a report from [...]
More than 840,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week as lawmakers agreed on a stimulus deal. Meanwhile, Goggle searches for “file for unemployment” soared. The total number of new unemployment claims dropped for the second [...]
Pittsburgh Penguins co-owner and billionaire investor Ron Burkle has paid $22 million for the estate once known as Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch. The 2,700-acre estate named after the magical Peter Pan universe where children do not grow up [...]
Old homes are often praised for their character, while new homes are more likely to be seen as “cookie cutter” replicas. The housing market has been roaring over the past several months of the coronavirus pandemic, so what kinds of homes are [...]