TO FIND AN OPEN HOUSE IN GLENVIEW IL NORTHBROOK IL OR MORTON GROVE IL Photo: © Monkey Business – Shutterstock There are many reasons why some people prefer to rent an apartment rather than purchase a home. Some jobs require considerable travel and occasional job-location transfers. Career-oriented professionals in their twenties find it easier and more convenient to… READ MORE
TO FIND AN OPEN HOUSE IN GLENVIEW IL NORTHBROOK IL OR MORTON GROVE IL Photo: © Monkey Business – Shutterstock There are many reasons why some people prefer to rent an apartment rather than purchase a home. Some jobs require considerable travel and occasional job-location transfers. Career-oriented professionals in their twenties find it easier and more convenient to… READ MORE
TO FIND AN OPEN HOUSE IN GLENVIEW IL NORTHBROOK IL OR MORTON GROVE IL For many home buyers, green features have gone from a wish list item to a must-have. The demand for green homes is expected to increase. Environmentally Friendly Builders and Remodelers According to the latest New SmartMarket Report by Dodge Data & Analytics, builders… READ MORE
National home sales are at a three year high. After climbing steadily for the past three months, November’s Pending Home Sales Index rose 1.7 percent to 106.4. This is the highest the Index has reached since April 2010, when the deadline for the home buyer tax credit was approaching. But November’s increase isn’t due to… READ MORE
5 Signs that Now is a Good Time to Buy Homes are spending less time on the market. A year ago, the median time it took a house to sell was 96 days. Now the median time has been shortened to just 71 days. A shortage of inventory, an increase in demand, and those ever-favorable mortgage… READ MORE
Will Homeowner Tax Perks Change in 2013? The terrain of homeowner tax credits is shifting slightly this year, and it is still unclear how it will all settle. Several credits homeowners have enjoyed the past few years have already expired. Which credits still exist in spite of the looming fiscal cliff, and which credits are… READ MORE
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A starter home is a stopgap between a rental and a dream house. In today’s real estate market, however, that stopgap is becoming a little less temporary. If you’re a first-time home buyer, you should plan to live in your starter home for seven to ten years. More…
To make it more attractive for the services to accept a sale on defaulted properties for less than the outstanding mortgage balance, the US Treasury is offering incentive payments of $1,000 per completed short sale. Services will also receive $1,000 for each deed-in-lieu of foreclosure. Read More…