Nov 16, 2023 | Real Estate, Real Estate Finance
By Lisa Marie Conklin Nov 16, 2023 (Getty Images) Homeowners often love to humble-brag about various aspects of their abode, from the size of their primary suite to just how many cars can fit in their garage. But the latest boast has nothing to do with square...
Nov 13, 2023 | Consumer News and Advice, Real Estate, Trends
By Clare Trapasso Nov 13, 2023 (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) More first-time homebuyers have been successfully navigating the extremely pricey and challenging housing market. Despite the myriad obstacles in their way, first-time buyers made up...
Nov 6, 2023 | Consumer News and Advice, Real Estate
By Lisa Marie Conklin Nov 2, 2023 (Getty Images) With today’s housing shortage, record-high home prices, and rising mortgage interest rates, buying a little slice of property can seem like an impossible goal to some. One budget-friendly workaround homebuyers have...
Nov 1, 2023 | Consumer News and Advice, Home Buying 101, Real Estate
By Veterans United The VA loan program has backed more than 28 million loans in its nearly 80-year history. While its roots are in the original GI Bill of 1944, this mortgage benefit is in many ways more important today than ever. During a time of tight mortgage...
Oct 30, 2023 | Consumer News and Advice, Real Estate
By Kimberly Dawn Neumann Oct 16, 2023 (Getty Images) While buying a home has always been a challenging milestone, today’s high interest rates have made this dream even harder to achieve. Over the past two years, interest rates on home loans have nearly...