In May's red-hot housing market, homes sold in record time
If a "for sale" sign goes up in your neighborhood, don't blink, you might miss it. The average home sold in May went under contract in just 34 days, according to real estate brokerage Redfin.
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The 0.25% Fed Rate Increase Doesn't Mean Mortgage Rates Will Increase 0.25%
Just because the Fed rate went up 0.25% doesn't mean the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate will go up 0.25%.
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Higher home, mortgage prices mean first-time buyers are paying 19 percent more each month
Nationwide home prices are almost 7 percent higher than a year ago. And the average long-term mortgage cost has risen by seven tenths of a percentage point interest compared with this time in 2017, according to CoreLogic.
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'I Backed Out of Buying My Dream Home'-and You Won't Believe Why
"Apparently, no one else had bothered to get a survey, so this only came up when we decided to do one just to be safe," she says. "We couldn't get title insurance unless the entire neighborhood went through an entire resubdivision, which could take years!"
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Hammond likely victor in deeds Democratic primary
A long time title researcher, Hammond is senior title insurance underwriter and closer at Atlantic Coast Title, LLC and has worked for the company for more than three decades.
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Two Michigan Libertarian governor candidates walk into a bar.
Longtime Libertarian activists Bill Gelineau, a title insurance agent and former party chairman, and John Tatar, a retired Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and teacher, are running to be their party's candidate for governor.
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Feds arrest dozens in sweeping action against hackers targeting wire transfers
The "Nigerian prince" who emailed you and offered millions of dollars in exchange for helping them get money out of the country may have just been arrested on wire fraud charges.
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US house prices are going to rise at twice the speed of inflation and pay: Reuters poll
An acute shortage of affordable homes in the United States will continue over the coming year, according to a majority of property market analysts polled by Reuters, driving prices up faster than inflation and wage growth.
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