Home Buying

What do you need to get together in order to buy another home after a foreclosure? Those who have completed short sales and that were among the first round of foreclosure victims should now be getting back to the point where they can qualify for mortgages for buying a home again.

There are two pitched battles going on over Connecticut real estate right now. What do they mean for New Haven locals and real estate investors everywhere?

Know you want to invest in or buy a home in San Diego this year, but not sure where the best locations are? San Diego County offers many diverse options for investing in real estate and buying a home with choices of mountain top mansions, spectacular world class ocean front estates and spacious single family homes somewhere in between.

A new fiscal deal has been struck to avoid the worst fallout from going over the cliff but how will it affect Connecticut real estate? There seem to be pros and cons for everyone from the new fiscal crisis bill, though the news of a deal definitely appears to be a far better outcome than many feared.

What’s the biggest challenge facing real estate investors in the next 12 months? All indicators and statistics point to 2013 being a record year for U.S. real estate. Home prices are going up, home sales and even pending sales are increasing and homes are selling faster. So where will real estate investors run into the biggest challenges ahead?

Is 2013 the year that San Diego really steals the limelight from San Francisco and Silicon Valley? Silicon Valley may be the world’s most famous startup capital and home to some of the priciest real estate in the U.S. but could its success finally be its own downfall?

This is the time of year when everyone is busy contemplating or forecasting real estate trends for the next 12 months. This year there seems to be no doubt that the coming year will bring incredible growth in the nation’s real estate market. However, perhaps more important than the direction or even how much homes will appreciate is which homes will be most demand.

What’s going on with San Diego’s commercial real estate market and what impact will it have on the local residential housing market? Having hit bottom late in 2012 the San Diego office and retail market is said to be primed for a new period of growth in 2013.

Connecticut has had a rough year of it in 2012, so what should we expect to see in the local real estate market in the coming months? Will the recent crises weigh down the Connecticut real estate market in 2013 or will the market fight back against the odds to out-perform the recent years of harder times?

News of HUD selling off masses of FHA loans to investors may not make California real estate agents happy, but the real question is what it means for homeowners and buyers? As a part of the Federal Housing Administration’s attempt to restore solvency after reporting a huge budgeting short fall it has announced plans to shed 40,000 seriously delinquent loans to real estate investors.