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Seventy-five percent of home owners say they think their home is worth more than the agent’s recommended list price, according to HomeGain’s fourth quarter home values survey. Meanwhile, 63 percent of home buyers say homes are overpriced. Thirty-six percent of … Continue reading →

Buying up homes, rehabbing them, and reselling them for a profit was big during the housing boom. But when the housing market started to slump, these house flippers in search of quick profits nearly vanished. As the housing market recovers, … Continue reading →

Mortgage rates held steady for the most part this week, remaining near all-time record lows set last week, Freddie Mac reports in its weekly market survey. Here’s a closer look at national mortgage rate averages for the week ending Oct. … Continue reading →

Foreclosures continue to do the opposite of what most analysts had predicted: They keep falling rather than rising. Foreclosure filings in September fell 7 percent from August and are down 16 percent from last September, RealtyTrac reported Thursday. Foreclosure filings … Continue reading →

Vacant homes pose a major challenge to the housing and economic recovery, and greater solutions need to be explored for handling the high numbers of abandoned homes, says Elizabeth Duke, Federal Reserve board governor. Duke says that too many of … Continue reading →

By Jennifer Couch, Houseplansandmore.com Selecting paint colors for your walls can be a daunting task. There are so many colors to choose from! Some people simply feel stuck with the colors on the walls and live with them for years just … Continue reading →

More housing reports released on Tuesday showed home prices on the rise. The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that U.S. home prices increased 3.7 percent from a year ago in the 12-month period ending in July. FHFA’s home price index … Continue reading →

Raising your deductible can help you in multiple ways. The higher your deductible — the amount you agree to pay out-of-pocket before the insurer begins to pay for a loss — the lower your premium and the less likely you … Continue reading →

Americans are feeling the best they have about their financial situation in nearly four years, according to the latest CredAbility Consumer Distress Index, a nonprofit credit counseling service. The improvements in the housing market is lessening the stress on Americans’ … Continue reading →

Unless Congress and the California State legislature take action, a break for mortgage principal forgiven in loan modifications or short sales will expire at year’s end. The mortgage debt forgiveness issue is only one of approximately 60 expiring tax provisions … Continue reading →