When purchasing a new home, one of the many factors to keep in mind is future demand for that home: How easily will you be able to sell it down the road? What will increase your chances of profiting as much as you can on the future sale? We already know the importance of features […]
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There’s so much to love already about beautiful California; now we can add walkable and urban-farming-friendly cities to the list. If either or both of these are important to you, the Golden State is the place to be, according to two recent Redfin studies. Three California cities made Redfin’s list of most walkable, easily leading
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Have you resolved to buy or sell a home this year? Or maybe both? Here are a few things you can expect to find if you’re entering the housing market in 2016: 1. Interest rates will go up This is not really news. Experts have been predicting an increase in mortgage rates ever since the Fed
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Millennials, the generation born between 1980 and 2000, are now twenty and thirty-somethings, and they are starting to take over. They are the social media generation, the multi-tasking, hashtagging generation, often stereotyped as having a short attention span and a large sense of entitlement. That’s not all there is to millennials though. They are also
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When you think of a jumbo loan, or jumbo mortgage, it evokes visions of luxury home buying, second homes, vacation homes, or maybe investors looking to purchase a multi-family unit to develop luxury condos or apartments. These days, though, a lot of first-time homebuyers in California are learning all about jumbo loans, because, in some
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Plenty of people are watching Wall Street right now, and speculating about whether this is just a temporary fluctuation, with memories of seven years ago all too fresh in their minds. Of course, back then it was the bursting of the housing bubble that caused the stock market to plummet, not the other way around.
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