Category Archives: Buying a Home
Millennials are powering the housing market
Source: NBC News Millennials were the largest group of home buyers (34 percent) for the fourth consecutive year, according to NAR's 2017 Home Buyer and Seller Generational Trends study. By comparison, baby boomers were 30 percent of...
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It’s cheaper to buy a home than rent, but only if...
Source: CNBC The supply of listings in April fell 9 percent compared with a year ago. Unfortunately for buyers, the cheapest segment of the market is where supplies are lowest. Home prices...
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Is more urban sprawl the solution to California’s housing crisis?
Source: Orange County Register In a state where vacant homes and apartments are scarce and where rents and house prices are out of control, state leaders and experts have proposed a host of solutions. Build more homes, build them in...
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Experts: Spring home-buying season starts off with a bang
But first-time buyers face headwinds from high prices Source: Housingwiring The spring home-buying season is in full swing and it started off with a bang. Home prices increased in February to a new high for the fourth consecutive...
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Bay Area residents contemplating Sacramento exodus
Source: SF Curbed San Francisco’s 2017 doom and gloom train continues with yet another site releasing a study this week showing that locals in California, particularly in the Bay Area, have developed a wandering eye for homes...
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Bidding $100,000 extra: buying a Southern California home is ‘insane’
Source: Los Angeles Times Jobs and wages are on the rise. Buyers are newly urgent, fearful an era of cheap money is ending. And to top it off, there simply aren’t enough homes listed for sale. As a result, bidding wars are common and prices...
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