Pending new home sales up 20% last several months, but flat overall MarketNsight recently hosted its December MarketWatch Atlanta event giving a state of the market for 2019 and predictions for the New Year. MarketNsight and ViaSearch President John Hunt reiterated that Atlanta is an incredibly price-sensitive market and that as interest rates have dropped, new home sales have increased. Hunt highlighted[...]
According to a report from HotPads, millennials will spend approximately over $200,000 in rent before they choose to buy a home, but renters in Generation Z (Gen Z, Gen Z-ers) will spend even more. In fact, Gen Z-ers will spend even more to rent before buying homes than any previous generation has spent. YIKES! Millennials and Gen Z -- it[...]
Many Americans are trying to decide if now is the time to enter the market for a new home. Years of renting might be taking its toll on your patience, and interest rates are low, but inching up. So is now a good time to buy a home? Steve Cook, former vice president of public affairs for the National Association[...]
In the latest housing market predictions from the experts at Equifax, it is clear that home prices will continue to rise – they are already five percent higher than they were last year in most parts of the country and are 13.4 percent higher in the Atlanta area according to Case-Shiller – while inventories are smaller than ever. National databases[...]
With one out of every four loan applications getting bounced, it is very important to know where you stand before you set your heart on buying a home this spring. Steve Cook, resident real estate finance expert at the Equifax Finance Blog, explains how to prepare to better your chances to get approved for a loan in a new article[...]
With the spring buying season coming up and lots of competition from foreclosures, those looking to sell a home need make sure they are ready to wow home buyers. A large part of that is figuring out where to put your marketing budget, from which agent (if any) to list with and what changes to make to your home to[...]