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Why Are Millennials Less Likely to be Homeowners?

Why Are Millennials Less Likely to be Homeowners?

By Liz Stevens| 2018-07-10T14:33:46-05:00 July 10th, 2018|

Millennials are nearly 10 percent less likely to be homeowners than baby boomers or Gen Xers. What’s different about this generation of homeowners? Urban Institute’s comprehensive study on Millennial Homeownership found that Millennials are 8 percent less likely to be homeowners than baby boomers and 8.4 percent lower than Gen Xers in the same age [...]

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What You Need to Consider Before Buying Your First Home Later in Life

What You Need to Consider Before Buying Your First Home Later in Life

By Ilyce Glink| 2018-07-23T08:33:45-05:00 July 6th, 2018|

What you need to consider before buying your first home later in life? From mortgage terms to tax deductions, there’s many decision to be made before buying your first home. Note: This post has been updated to reflect a correction to the amount of the 2018 State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction change in the [...]

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Claiming Home Ownership Through Adverse Possession: What You Need to Know

Claiming Home Ownership Through Adverse Possession: What You Need to Know

By Ilyce Glink| 2018-07-06T13:40:34-05:00 July 6th, 2018|

Claiming home ownership through adverse possession: What you need to know in order to put the home in your name. How do you claim home ownership through adverse possession? What you need to know in order to put the home in your name? These are some of the most commonly asked questions about adverse possession. [...]

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Building a New House? How to Make a Family Mortgage Work with a Construction Loan

Building a New House? How to Make a Family Mortgage Work with a Construction Loan

By Ilyce Glink| 2018-07-02T09:27:51-05:00 June 29th, 2018|

How to make a family mortgage work with a construction loan to ensure the complicated building process doesn’t exceed the loan amount. Q: In regard to your article "How to become a mortgage lender for your children" in the Washington Post, can a family mortgage also be accomplished on a construction loan? Can you refer [...]

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Why You May Not Need a 20% Down Payment Before Buying

Why You May Not Need a 20% Down Payment Before Buying

By Ilyce Glink| 2018-06-29T09:38:58-05:00 June 29th, 2018|

Why you may not need a full 20% down payment before buying a home, especially if it means draining your savings. Q: I’m looking to buy a home where the typical property sells for about $200,000. I have saved up about $25,000. Should I wait until I have $40,000 to buy the home or try [...]

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How to Find Proof of Your Cancelled Mortgage

How to Find Proof of Your Cancelled Mortgage

By Ilyce Glink| 2018-06-22T14:06:19-05:00 June 22nd, 2018|

How to find proof of your cancelled mortgage if your lender didn’t send you a cancelled note. Q: How you can figure out if a cancelled mortgage is cancelled by the county? A: In a recent column, we discussed how a lender should and generally does send the cancelled note and mortgage back to the [...]

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Buying Your First Home: How to Find the Right Mortgage Lender

Buying Your First Home: How to Find the Right Mortgage Lender

By Ilyce Glink| 2018-06-22T14:05:51-05:00 June 22nd, 2018|

Buying your first home: How to find the right mortgage lender that will have your best interests at heart. Hint: It may not be who your real estate agent suggests. Q: I recently saw you on the news and I wanted to reach out to ask you a few questions. I wanted to take the [...]

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New Report Shines Spotlight on Scarcity of Affordable Housing

New Report Shines Spotlight on Scarcity of Affordable Housing

By Ryan Wangman| 2018-06-25T14:17:51-05:00 June 20th, 2018|

A recent report from the Harvard JCHS takes a look at the important differences in the housing market since the 1980s. Many staples of American life look different in the three decades since 1988, from big hair to the cost of college to the rising number of Americans burdened by housing costs. In a recent [...]

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Top 5 Threats to Real Estate in 2017 (Part I of II)

Top 5 Threats to Real Estate in 2017 (Part I of II)

By Guest| 2018-06-25T14:14:38-05:00 June 19th, 2018|

Wondering what threats await real estate this year (and in the future)? Scott Muldavin, Chair of the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE), ran down his annual list at this year's National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) conference, in Denver. This story features the first 5 threats to real estate. Real Estate Threat #1 - [...]

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Do You Get the Deed After Your Final Mortgage Payment?

Do You Get the Deed After Your Final Mortgage Payment?

By Ilyce Glink| 2022-09-18T10:10:43-05:00 June 14th, 2018|

Do you get the deed after your final mortgage payment? After making your final mortgage payment, there are many documents you should receive, but is the home deed one of them? Q: My husband and I paid off our home in 1999, 10 years early. We never received a deed. The loan company said that [...]

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