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2017
Some Highlights: The Cost of Waiting to Buy is defined as the additional funds it would take to buy a home if prices & interest rates were to increase over a period of time. Freddie Mac predicts interest rates to rise to 4.4% by next year. CoreLogic predicts home prices to appreciate by 5.0% over...
09/29/2017
The number of building permits issued for single-family homes is the best indicator of how many newly built homes will rise over the next few months. According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development Residential Sales Report, the number of these permits...
09/28/2017
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How do you select the members of your team who are going to help you make your dream of owning a home a reality? What should you be looking for? How do you know if you’ve found the right agent or lender?The most important characteristic that you should be looking for in your agent is someone who...
09/28/2017
Most Charlotte small business people will recognize this post-startup scenario. It’s the moment when the whole idea of long-range planning first starts to make sense. Although everyone who stakes his or her claim in a new business hopes for success, in the beginning, that outcome is far from cert...
09/28/2017
A couple of weeks back, the ultimate authority on Charlotte mortgage rates hadn’t minced words. That was Freddie Mac, whose opinion about mortgage rates constitutes the final say in the matter. Freddie isn’t modest about its preeminence (Freddie’s trademarked corporate slogan is “We make home po...
09/24/2017
Search current inventory of 4 bedroom homes in Charlotte, NC 28227 Zip Code Between 200K - 300K Listing Details4 Bedroom House For Sale - Charlotte, NC13020 Great Laurel Road, Charlotte NC 28227 Price: $259,900MLS#: 3357241Bedrooms: 4Bathrooms: 3Heated Square Footage: 3,050 Call Wayne Bennett at ...
09/22/2017
When news of the Equifax hack first broke, the credit ratings giant scrambled to minimize fallout from this massive personal information breach. After an initial embarrassing misstep (they tried to have affected consumers sign off on Equifax’s liability), the company moved to ameliorate the hack...
09/19/2017
Friday is the official last day of Charlotte’s 2017 summer, but for most of us, the season has been feeling a lot more like fall ever since Labor Day. It isn’t the weather so much as the psychological factor. Things like the passing of that last summertime three-day weekend and watching Charlott...
09/19/2017
What a simpler world it would be if Charlotte home buying could be reduced to anything like a simple 4-Step process. Even better if those were four easy steps. Actually, without actually coming out and saying so, that’s the tantalizing prospect hinted at on radio financial guru Dave Ramsey’s web ...
09/11/2017
Last weekend’s regular North Carolina news should have been promoting all the usual upbeat feature stories about the onset of football season, the start of a brand new school year, the finals of tennis’ last grand slam tournament and the like—but Charlotte readers would have gotten eye strain tr...
09/11/2017
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