• Priced Out? A Condo or Townhome Could Be Your Way In.,Frank Ortiz

    Priced Out? A Condo or Townhome Could Be Your Way In.

    Today's home prices have a lot of buyers – especially first-time buyers – wondering if there’s even anything out there that’s in their budget. But owning a home may be more within reach than you think. Sometimes, it just means considering a different type of home. Condos and townhomes can be a great

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  • Today’s Foreclosures vs. 2008 Chart,Frank Ortiz

    Today’s Foreclosures vs. 2008 Chart

    Headlines highlighting rising foreclosures have a way of stirring up 2008 flashbacks. But the data says not to panic.  We’re nowhere near what happened back then. In the first half of 2008, foreclosures were filed on over 1.3 million homes. The first half of this year that number was less than 250k.

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  • More Homes, Better Prices: A Buyer’s Summer,Frank Ortiz

    More Homes, Better Prices: A Buyer’s Summer

    If you’ve thought about buying a home in the past few years, you may have run into two frustrations: asking prices that kept climbing and too few homes to choose from. In many places, both sticking points are letting up this summer, with lower asking prices and more homes for sale. Let’s look at the

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