During your home closing keep a copy of mortgage lender's good faith estimate handy. For home closing tips, check out today's Real Estate Minute. Whether you’re buying or selling, you must keep a paper trail of the transaction, or you could get into big trouble. To keep your mortgage lender honest during your closing, keep [...]
Finding the right home to buy can be a difficult task. Ilyce Glink talks about buying the right home in today's Real Estate Minute. Just like dating, you’re going to find a home that you’ll fall in love with. But watch out, because when it comes to a house, you don’t want to get too [...]
Have a failed home inspection on your hands? Ilyce Glink explains what to do when a home inspection goes bad in today's Real Estate Minute. When you have a home inspected, you have to be prepared for your inspector find something wrong with the property you’ve fallen in love with. When a home inspector finds [...]
Home buyers should get sellers to cover their home warranty when buying a new home. Watch Ilyce Glink in today's Real Estate Minute. Here’s some more good news for home buyers. Many sellers are so desperate to unload their property that they will pick up the cost of a home warranty as a marketing tool. [...]
Thinking about co-buying your home? Before buying a home with another family member, consider problems that can occur. Q: My husband, sister, and I are buying a home. My sister would like to pay one-third of the cost of the house and we’d finance the rest of the purchase. My husband and I would pay [...]
In most real estate markets, home prices have risen 5 percent or so in the past year, but they are still lower than they’ve been in ten years or more. Prices are expected to keep rising, so for home buyers, spring will be a good time to make that long-awaited move to a first home or move up to a [...]
If you're buying a condo while in school or want to know if you should buy a condo now, be sure to do your homework. Q: My son is a graduate student and working for a retailer while in school. He wants to buy a high-rise condominium in Atlanta, Georgia. He’s going crazy with [...]
WSB Radio’s Ilyce Glink Show: Buying a foreclosed home or condominium, managing your personal finances and using smart spending tips. On this week’s Ilyce Glink Show on WSB radio, Ilyce talked about her concept “rebuilding America one house at a time,” which is about learning how to make smart decisions about finances. Rebuilding America starts [...]
Ilyce Glink tells us about the top 10 moving destinations in the US on today's Real Estate Minute. Americans are on the move. According to the Census Bureau, more than 36 million Americans moved in 2012. Where are they moving to? According to Penske Truck Rental, a global transport company, most Americans are moving for [...]
If you’re thinking about buying or selling a house soon, you’ve likely heard talk of “buyers’ markets” and “sellers’ markets.” Simply put, a buyers’ market occurs when there are more homes for sale than available buyers. Conversely, in a sellers’ market, demand outstrips supply. In 2013, should the fragile housing recovery proceed as most experts [...]
