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Harvard’s 5 Financial Reasons to Buy a Home
Have you been thinking about buying a home? Here are five good reasons published on the KCM Blog from Eric Belsky, Managing Director of the Joint Center of Housing Studies at Harvard University. He published a paper on homeownership - The Dream Lives On: the Future of Homeownership in America in which he detailed the points below:
1.) Housing is typically the one leveraged investment available.
"Few households are interested in borrowing money to buy stocks an...
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Home Buyers Increase reliance on Internet
The internet continues to grow as the primary resource for home buyers. According to The Digital House Hunt: Consumer and Market Trends in Real Estate the internet is a primary research tool for 90% of home buyers. The study also found that real estate Google searches have increased 253% over the past four years. Internet home searchers are also going mobile in large numbers.
What does this mean if I'm selling my home? Exposure on the internet is key, including appearance in pictures and virtual tours (attracting buyers to lo...
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The Importance of Credit Scores in Real Estate
What is one of the primary factors that go into a lender's decision of whether or not to grant a loan? Credit scores. It has been estimated that nearly 75% of all mortgage loan decisions are made with the applicant's credit score in mind.