NOW is the Best Time to Buy a Home! May 18, 2012 Filed under: Metroplex Real Estate,National Real Estate News Cody The following was sent to all members of the Ebby Halliday Companies today by President & CEO Mary Frances Burleson: This could be the best time in a generation to buy a home. Here’s [...]

There’s no crystal ball economists can use to forecast the future (in fact, their pronouncements are often so vague you’d think they were using a recently-shaken snow globe).  But local housing prospects may be headed for brighter days if we look for guidance from the people who back their words with action – U.S. builders. [...]

There’s nothing like the warm glow of accomplishment that a homeowner gets after finishing a thorough spring cleaning. It’s especially true when you realize how important the annual ritual can be in protecting your greatest asset: your property. That warm glow results from doing more than just cleaning your home’s interior. It involves maintaining the [...]

I found this article on Fox Business, and it helps to cover many questions from homeowners.  I hope it may answer one or two for you as well. As mortgage rates hit another record low, some homeowners ponder whether it’s worth reaching into their savings to buy their way into the refinance craze. Others have [...]

Anyone interested in buying a house today has undoubtedly been warned to expect tougher mortgage lending requirements. Sometimes that can seem a bit arbitrary — or even just plain unfair. But unfair or not, the new lending reality is probably here to stay for a while, and the causes are understandable. The mortgage industry learned [...]

The National Association of Realtors has revised their home sales figures from the last four years.  They are now approximately 14% lower than first was reported.  This basically drops the housing numbers down by 2 million home sales.  In a down economy, the numbers paint a bleaker picture of what people were hoping was a recovery [...]

Amy Lutz of The College Conservative wrote this, and I just had to share!  Beautifully written! In 1897, a young girl named Virginia wrote a letter to The New York Sun, asking if Santa Claus did in fact exist. Newsman Francis Pharcellus Church responded with a now-famous editorial entitled “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa [...]

There is a new credit score looming on the horizon that tracks you a little more closely than the old credit scores.  CoreScore, as it’s called has been launched by CoreLogic to aid and assist mainly mortgage and home equity lenders to gain a better prospective into their potential borrowers.  While the CoreScore credit report [...]

Yahoo! Finance posted a few blunders to avoid for refinancing I thought might help someone.  Here they are: Not Comparing the Real Rate “Borrowers should shop around for a mortgage by comparing the APR (annual percentage rate) of each loan rather than the quoted interest rate,” says Gregg Busch, vice president of First Savings Mortgage [...]

There is so much information on credit scores and credit repair online that you can literally get a different answer every time you log on.  To get the full impact of a credit score, you have to go to the source; the three credit reporting agencies: Experian, TransUnion and Equifax. Here is a simple breakdown [...]