Miami Lakes Real Estate with Stephanie L

The monthly cost of owning a home is more affordable now than in the past 15 years, and is less expensive than renting in many cities. Low home prices combined with low mortgage rates – hovering at 4 percent or lower – create an appealing buyer’s market, analysts say. For example, buyers today ha...

  For the third week, 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, the most popular choice among home buyers, averaged at or below 4 percent, Freddie Mac reports. Here’s a the scoop on mortgage rates for the week ending Nov. 17. ·     30-year fixed-rate mortgages: averaged 4 percent with an average 0.7 point, r...

30 Year Fixed Rates Drop Below 4% This Week..   Here’s the scoop on mortgage rates for the week ending Nov. 10: 30-year fixed-rate mortgages: averaged 3.99 percent with an average 07 point, down from last week’s 4 percent average. The last time the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dropped below 4 perc...

Banks are now offering incentive to struggling homeowners to short sale their homes in Florida. Just last month, Bank of America quietly began a Florida-only campaign that gives homeowners up to $20,000 for a short sale rather than letting their homes linger 676 days of the Florida foreclosure pr...

About 84 percent of Florida foreclosures are more than 18 months in arrears. In January 2010, just 19 percent of Florida’s foreclosures were 24 months or more delinquent. A new report from Jacksonville-based LPS Applied Analytics found that as of September, 56 percent of Florida’s mortgages in fo...

For our sons 7th birthday we drove up to West Palm Bch. Which is a short drive from Miami, to go on an adventure at Lion Country Safari.. Never in a million years did we think we would witness the birth of a baby giraffe... A truly an amazing moment.. Worthy of sharing....    

  Here’s the scoop at rates for the week ending Oct. 13.  30-year fixed-rate mortgages: averaged 4.12 percent, with an average 0.8 point, moving up from last week’s record-hitting 3.94 percent average. A year ago at this time, 30-year rates averaged 4.19 percent.  15-year fixed-rate mortgages: av...

  Guess what?  It is that time of the year again, for the 2011 Miami Lakes Pumpkin Patch. Pumpkin Patch Opens:  October 7 - 31, 10:00 am - 9:00 pm Where: Miami Lakes United Methodist Church           14800 NW 67th AVE          Miami Lakes, FL          Florida 33014    The truck containing over 2...

Here is a short video from the National Association of Realtors with a few quick tips when facing a short sale... Regardless of your situation, there are several options available to you... Contact me for your confidential consultation...     Disclosure: Stephanie Leon with Avanti Way Realty is n...

                                                              Being from Florida I was so excited to read this Wonderful news. I am glad to see Miami # 1 on this list….  So, I just had to share with all…    Daily Real Estate News | Friday, September 23, 2011   Prices are rising in Florida: Florid...