Jeremy Cudd's (jeremycudd) Blog

  Having professional representation is critical for buyers, who are making what is probably the biggest purchase they will ever undertake. It doesn’t “cost extra” and buyers will know that the person showing them properties has their best interests in mind.   The concept of buyer’s agency was i...

Housing, the sector that led us into the recession, now looks to be one of the brighter spots in the economy. Homebuilding is at its highest level in nearly four years. More homes are selling, and at higher prices.   The question is whether this is a solid-enough foundation to sustain a full hou...

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This is a great time to buy a home in many parts of the country. There are signs that the downward price spiral is bottoming out. Mortgage rates are at historic lows.  The next few years could well be remembered as the best opportunity for Americans to buy homes since the postwar baby boom. But ...

The median price of an existing single family home rose in June to the highest level in almost four years, the fifth straight month-to-month gain, NAR reported recently. The median price was up 7.9 percent from June 2011. Existing home sales dropped to 4.37 million in June to the lowest level si...

The U.S. Federal Housing Administration said recently that it would start taking bids from investors for a program intended to sell off thousands of delinquent home loans, as it is almost doubling an offering first announced last month.   The FHA, which protects lenders against borrower defaults...

Get ready Hudsonites!  A local developer says he has signed a lease with Noodles & Company in a soon-to-be-built development at Carmichael Road and Center Drive. The shop is shooting for a spring or summer 2013 opening date. Noodles & Company, a popular chain pasta eatery, has signed a lease in ...

In the first half of this year, over 1 million U.S. properties received a foreclosure filing, according to a midyear foreclosure report released by RealtyTrac. The exact figure, 1,045,801, marks a 2 percent increase from the previous 6-month period and an 11 percent decrease from the first half ...

Mortgage rates on 30-year and 15-year fixed-rate mortgages fell to historic lows once again this week, according to mortgage giant Freddie Mac. The rate for a 30-year mortgage fell to 3.56 percent, down from 3.62 percent last week, Freddie Mac (FRE) said in its weekly report. The 30-year fixed r...

Thanks to improving home prices, fewer mortgage borrowers owe more on their homes than they are worth. More than 700,000 homeowners were no longer underwater on their homes during the first quarter, according to CoreLogic. According to the report, 11.4 million, or 23.7 percent, of mortgage borro...