Kelly Allison, Senior Vice President of the Southeast Division for New American Funding joins the Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio podcast to discuss customer service and its On-Time Closing Guarantee. She is joined by co-hosts Carol Morgan and Todd Schnick in the studio for this week’s edition of the All About Real Estate segment. New American Funding recently rolled out an[...]
Searching for a new home online? With all the home builder websites, Realtor.com, Zillow and Redfin, are you asking, “Do I need a Realtor to buy a house?” You can literally find what you are looking for online, so why do you need a Realtor? Well, looking at available listings is just the start of the home buying process. First-time[...]
The rise in student loan debt is a constant subject on the news, and it is often listed as one of the main reasons why Millennials are slow to enter the housing market. Statistics from a recent survey conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of CNBC Make It show that U.S. adults age 33 to 40 have an average[...]
A notable housing trend resulting from strong home sales in 2020 and 2021, is a preference by American homebuyers for community associations, also known as condominium and homeowners associations (HOA). According to the Foundation for Community Association Research, the number of new condominium and HOAs nationwide is expected to increase by 4,500 this year, and Beacon Management Services sees this[...]
The rise and fall of mortgage interest rates seems to be the hot topic on news stations across the country week in and week out. With so much news, and so many differing opinions on what the changes in the rates mean, it can be hard to discern how they will your home purchase. Over the past few months, there has[...]
According to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) BuilderBooks most recent addition, What Home Buyers Really Want, 60% of home buyers would prefer to buy new construction homes over existing homes. With every other factor remaining equal, today’s buyers are more interested in buying brand-new than used homes. In the NAHB BuilderBooks, new homes are categorized as both homes built[...]
When is the housing market going to crash? In just one month, this foreboding question skyrocketed in Google searches, seeing more than a 2,450% increase. The current housing market is showing phenomenal momentum and has been on this forward trajectory since before the outbreak of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic in 2020. With over a year of phenomenal and record-breaking housing sales,[...]
On this week’s All About Real Estate segment of Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio, co-hosts Carol Morgan and Todd Schnick are joined by Kelly Allison, southeast divisional vice president of New American Funding. The group discusses why now is a good time to buy a home. New American Funding was built to serve the community by helping individuals achieve homeownership. The[...]
One of the many things we have learned over the past year is that property in Atlanta is almost always a good investment. As long as we’re speaking about organic real estate – rather than the mixture of lack of regulation and opportunism that leads to housing bubbles – property retains its value or will eventually rebound. Even in 2020,[...]
President Joe Biden recently proposed a $15,000 down payment assistance tax credit for first-time buyers, making homeownership a more affordable and achievable option for 9.3 million renters. According to Zillow, this $15,000 tax credit would be enough to cover the minimum down payment in a majority of the metro areas across the country. For almost 30% of renters, this tax[...]