Expectations are rising for home price appreciation, according to the 2017 Q4 Zillow Home Price Expectations Survey. Home prices have continued to rise, and showed no signs of slowing.

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Zillow  sponsors a quarterly survey, conducted by Pulsenomics LLC, which asks more than 100 housing experts, market strategists, and economists what to expert for the U.S. housing market in 2018. The survey has revealed a steady uptick in home price increase, pushed along by the struggling supply over 33 straight months.

Zillow reports that although overall new construction picked up slightly toward the end of 2017, single-family construction was still plagued by a slow pace. Only 16.7 percent of experts who responded to the survey…

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How to choose a real estate agent

Tips For Finding A Real Estate Agent  

The right person might be able to get you into your dream home.

Consider the real estate process: there’s time spent researching neighborhoods, searching for homes that match your budget (and your lifestyle), negotiations on price and repairs, and the commitment level of making one of the biggest purchases of your life. If going it alone sounds scarier than entering a haunted house at midnight, you might need more information about how to choose a real estate agent.

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A great real estate agent can help you navigate every step, with advice and connections to make getting to the closing table that much easier. And especially in hot real estate…

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tips to pay off debt

The keys to paying off debt while renting are motivation, a plan, and spending in moderation.

 

How one woman’s ambitious money-saving tactics made her debt-free.

Search for tips to pay off debt and you’ll likely find lofty advice like “reduce your living expenses so more of your money can go toward paying down your debt.” If you can find a way to eradicate the need to pay rent, you can free up a big chunk of change to put toward paying off your debt instead. But living rent-free just isn’t a reality for most people. Add on to rent all the other bills you need to pay in a month and there may not be much left to devote toward your goal of debt freedom. 

Iryna Hlushakova knows how much work it takes to manage…

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Good News for Rental Investors

Average retention rates of expiring leases among single-borrower, single-family rental securitizations remained strong in September 2017, according to Morningstar Credit Ratings’ latest Single-Family Rental Research.

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The retention rate on full-term leases climbed to 76.3 percent in September, up from a revised 74.6 percent for August 2017. Of the single-family, single-borrower securitizations monitored by Morningstar, only three posted a retention rate below 70 percent. That’s half as many as in August’s total of six. Moreover, seven deals posted retention rates above 80 percent, as opposed to four in August. Rents themselves rose 2.9 percent in October. All of this amounts to good…

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According to the latest First American Real Home Price Index, slightly lower interest rates and higher wages helped increase consumer home-buying power between August and September 2017.

Making it easier for home buyers to buy Homes for Sale in Davenport FL.

Supply shortages continue to ensure that demand is outpacing supply, driving up prices as many existing homeowners remain reluctant to sell for fear of not being able to find a new house. In spite of that, however, home prices continue to be well below their pre-Recession levels.

The First American Real House Price Index (RHPI) “measures the price changes of single-family properties throughout the U.S. adjusted for the impact of income and interest rate changes on consumer house-buying power…

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