“The cooling rate of price growth is needed to preserve favorable housing affordability conditions in the future,” says NAR’s chief economist.
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Executives at FICO say that the high credit score “cutoffs” that mortgage lenders imposed following the housing crisis are stricter than necessary.
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How big is your smartphone screen? One of the latest tech trends is to supersize your phone’s display.
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“There’s nothing more irritating than finding a home you love during your search and learning that it has recently been taken off the market or that the price has been updated,” says a spokeswoman for realtor.com®.
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Cash is king in Florida home sales. The state boasts the highest number of metros where cash deals comprise more than half of sales.
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Once a secret weapon, escalation clauses are now common enough to appear in multiple offers for the same property.
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