Maria Zearing's (mzearing) Blog

For the first time in my 7 year real estate career, I find that all of my buyer clients are renters moving up to home ownership. With the duo of low home prices and low interest rates, renters are finding that a mortgage payment is actually doable. Even people that have relatively low rent are se...

One of the upsides in the down market is that there are more HUD and bank owned properties available for purchase, many of them open to bids by investors. Whereas a private seller may not be able to move much on his price, the bank or HUD is willing to look at offers. In our Oregon market I have ...