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Buying, selling, financing, and furnishing your new home is a fun and exciting challenge. Look at the articles, columns, blog posts, radio shows and videos for advice on new construction home building. With these helpful home construction tips, building a new home is a whole lot easier.

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    Where Are People Moving in 2020?

Where Are People Moving in 2020?

By Liz Stevens| 2020-06-26T10:24:17-05:00 June 26th, 2020|

Where are people moving in 2020? Americans are moving away from big cities, building new homes in smaller cities, suburbs and more rural areas. In 2020, Americans are looking for a reprieve from expensive, crowded mass metropolitan areas by relocating to smaller cities, suburbs and more rural areas, according to the latest quarterly Home Building [...]

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    What Will Homes of the Future Look Like?

What Will Homes of the Future Look Like?

By Liz Stevens| 2018-08-27T12:12:19-05:00 August 23rd, 2018|

Real estate research predicts what new construction homes will look like twenty years into the future based on historical housing trends. Hello, central air conditioning and two-car garages. Goodbye basements and fireplaces! A recent real estate study from Porch analyzed census data from 1999 through 2016 to forecast new construction home building trends in the [...]

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    A New Report Shows Housing Market Strengths and Weaknesses

A New Report Shows Housing Market Strengths and Weaknesses

By Ilyce Glink| 2018-06-19T11:22:00-05:00 June 16th, 2017|

It’s been a decade since the housing market collapsed, and home prices have finally regained their previous peak. According to the State of the Nation’s Housing 2017 report, released today by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, U.S. home prices rose 5.6 percent in 2016, beating out their pre-recession highs. Across the [...]

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    Rising Interest Rates On The Horizon With Trump Presidency

Rising Interest Rates On The Horizon With Trump Presidency

By Ilyce Glink| 2017-09-25T13:33:20-05:00 November 18th, 2016|

Rising interest rates are on the horizon, according to Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. And, it doesn't look at though Donald Trump's election will change the interest rate forecast. In Congressional testimony, Yellen said that the Federal Reserve plans an interest rate increase "relatively soon." But, mortgage interest rates are already rising sharply. According to [...]

Ask Ilyce – March 9, 2004

By Ilyce Glink| 2009-01-19T01:02:03-06:00 January 19th, 2009|

How much of your savings should go toward a down payment? What's the best way to turn the home your renting into a home you'd like to buy? WGN's Money Saving Expert Ilyce Glink answers questions from the Mailbag about buying and selling real estate.

New Green Remodeling Website From NARI:

By Ilyce Glink| 2008-12-12T16:54:00-06:00 December 12th, 2008|

Who says it's not easy being green? It seems like everyone is getting more environmentally conscious and so is the remodeling industry. The National...

Most Seniors Want To Stay Put

By Ilyce Glink| 2008-11-25T10:40:00-06:00 November 25th, 2008|

A recent survey commissioned by AARP found that 79 percent of baby boomers want to stay in the home they are currently living in. Less than 10 percen...

Earnest Money: Home Buyer Must Follow Home Contract

By Ilyce Glink| 2008-11-12T00:00:00-06:00 November 12th, 2008|

Can you as a home buyer get your earnest money back on the purchase of a home if the financial markets prevent you from getting a loan to buy the home? When you as a home buyer put earnest money down on a home you're bound by whatever the home purchase contract states. You can lose your earnest money if the contract allows the builder to keep it, regardless of whether the credit crisis affects the your ability to qualify for a mortgage loan.

Home Warranty Unenforceable When Builder Disappears

By Ilyce Glink| 2008-10-31T00:00:00-05:00 October 31st, 2008|

A home buyer says he recently bought a home and the builder has not followed through on a home inspection or repair requests. The buyer is experiencing buyer's remorse because of the builder's bad behavior. The builder may be going under due to the economic climate and unable to provide the warranty that was in the contracts.

New Home Construction Buyers Feel Satisfied

By Ilyce Glink| 2008-09-12T00:00:00-05:00 September 12th, 2008|

The 2008 J.D. Power and Associates survey of new home construction buyers showed an increase in home purchase satisfaction from 2007. A J.D. Power spokeswoman says buyers get more for their money because home builders include once optional features such as granite countertops as standard. Builders are finding out how to satisfy customers and stay alive in this market.

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