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May 19, 2020

Will Home Values Appreciate or Depreciate in 2020?

 

Will Home Values Appreciate or Depreciate in 2020? | MyKCM

With the housing market staggered to some degree by the health crisis the country is currently facing, some potential purchasers are questioning whether home values will be impacted. The price of any item is determined by supply as well as the market’s demand for that item.

Each month the  ...

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March 4, 2020

Result from the Fed’s emergency rate cut

The Federal Reserve reduced interest rates today, cutting the federal funds rate by 0.50 percent to a range of 1-1.25 percent. The Fed is trying to stay ahead of disturbance and economic slowdown caused by the fast spreading coronavirus.

On Friday, the Fed announced that it was willing ...

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March 4, 2020

Advantages and disadvantages of a home equity line of credit

Property owners who want to check into their home’s equity to consolidate debt with high interest or finance home improvement projects often decide to take out a home equity line of credit, which is called HELOC.

Unlike a home equity loan that let you borrow a lump sum, a HELOC ...

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Feb. 18, 2020

Some FHA Loans Facts to Know

FHA Loan facts to know about one out of every eight homes sold each year. For decades, it’s been popular with first-time buyers because it was the first significant source of low down payment loans. First-time buyers can choose from thousands of low down payment loans. Yet FHA remains the ...

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Jan. 7, 2020

Broward County Single-Family Home Sales Rise in November

Broward County single-family home sales, median prices and dollar volume went up year after year in November 2019, according to the MIAMI Association of Realtors (MIAMI) and the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) system.

Broward single-family home sales went up 2.2% year-over-year, from 1,149 to 1,174. Broward County ...

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Jan. 7, 2020

Miami Condo Sales Went up in November for Eight years

Miami-Dade County current condominium sales, including $1-million-and-up transactions, went up year after year in November 2019, according to the MIAMI Association of Realtors (MIAMI) and the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) system. Pending sales, which are indicators of future closed sales and reflect demand, are up in November and year to ...

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Nov. 20, 2019

Approximately 30 percent of Millennial Renters from Miami are only saving enough money to buy a property

In South Florida, a study concluded that only less than half of the millennial renters can afford to buy a property.

As per a study made by Apartment List, an online rental listing website, renters from 23-38 over the past five years within 16 U.S. metro areas. Researchers considered ...

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Nov. 20, 2019

Loan applications for New Homes went up since sales get to seven-year high

Mortgage applications to purchase new homes last October went up by almost one third year after year as sales came up to their highest annual rate since the Mortgage Bankers Association first track the data.

 As per MBA's Builder Application Survey, consumers are looking to exclude a secured mortgage ...

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Oct. 9, 2019

FHA RELEASES A NEW CONDOMINIUM APPROVAL REGULATION

- Present a new single-unit approval process to make it easier for individual condominium units to be eligible for FHA-insured financing;

- Expand the recertification requirement for approved condominium projects from two to three years;

- Authorized more mixed-use projects to be eligible for FHA insurance.

Single-Unit Agreement

As of October 15, FHA ...

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Sept. 20, 2019

The Best Time of The Year for Homebuying

The best time to buy a new home is the first week of fall, which in this year falls on the week of September 22. This time of the year, shoppers have less competitions, more price reductions and more properties to choose from. This is according to  a data gathered ...

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