Category: For Buyers

With economic headlines, global events, and near constant talk about affordability, you may be wondering if this is the right time to move.

For a lot of people, the math on buying a home just doesn’t really work right now.

If you’ve been looking for a home lately, you’ve probably felt how tough affordability still is.

Be honest. Have you started looking at homes online yet? If you have, it’s already time to get pre-approved.

Spend about 5 minutes online searching for news about the housing market, and odds are you’ll see something pop up about home prices.

There’s a lot of noise out there right now about investors in the housing market.

Mortgage rates have been volatile lately. And if you’re thinking about buying a home, that can make it harder to plan.

For the past few years, affordability has been what’s stopped a lot of buyers in their tracks. Maybe it stopped you, too.

Foreclosures are ticking up. And that may make your mind jump straight to thoughts of 2008 – specifically to what happened to the market during the housing crash.

Mortgage rates have already dropped into the upper 5s twice this year. But after just a few days, they ticked back up into the low 6% range. If you saw that and thought, “Great. I missed it,” you’re not the only one. A lot of buyers are treating the 5s like some kind of magic … Continued