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FHA Loan Limits Increased! 2008-03-06 22:35:55 HUD announced today that the loan limits have been increased thru the end of the year. In Bexar and Comal County, the limit was raised from $200,000 to $332,500. In lieu of the extreme pressure on the mortgage industry due to the high delinquency rate of subprime loans (leading to high foreclosure numbers as [...] Read more:Limits
Does Zillow’s Zestimates Give Accurate Home Values? 2008-02-23 14:55:09 Zillow.com has become a media darling. In case you don’t know, Zillow.com is where you can get the company’s take on how much your house and millions of others across the country are worth, and has become one of top time wasters of homeowners. Here’s how it works: you go to zillow.com, type in an [...] Read more:Zillow
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, Values
Texas Homeowners Hold Winning Hand, Says Real Estate Center 2008-02-07 18:08:36 COLLEGE STATION, Texas
–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Affordable housing is the state’s ace in the hole in the predicted future high-stakes real estate version of Texas hold ‘em. In fact, the state’s leading expert on residential real estate is betting housing affordability will be the “most significant growth stimulant” for Texas over the next 25 years.
“Texas is the most [...] Read more:Homeowners
, Winning
, Estate
, Center
Secrets For Selling Your San Antonio Home 2008-01-30 08:49:39 We get a fair number of calls from San Antonio
real estate sellers asking us for our opinions on why their home hasn’t sold. We try to help as many people as we can, but sometimes they really aren’t looking for our honest opinion, they want us to confirm their thoughts, which we can’t do. [...] Read more:Secrets
, San Antonio
San Antonio Employers and Real Estate Prices 2008-01-29 00:49:30 In the last couple of weeks, several San Antonio
employers have received national recognition for being a top 100 place to work in Fortune’s annual employer rankings. Among those are Rackspace, #32, and Valero, #67. Rackspace, who reported in their last quarter that their sales were up 67%, has created a hotspot [...] Read more:Estate
, San Antonio
, Prices
, Real Estate
30-year mortgage rates hit 2 1/2-year low 2008-01-19 13:52:10 The big news this week on the housing front was continuing decline of mortgage interest rates. This from the Associated Press:
“Rates on 30-year mortgages fell for a third straight week to the lowest level since the summer of 2005. Freddie Mac’s weekly survey showed that 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages dropped to 5.69 percent from 5.87 [...]
Home Owners Insurance Tips 2008-01-19 13:18:27 With the swings in the real estate market today, homeowners are making all
kinds of deals to purchase or sell properties. And with all the creative
arrangements people are exploring to sell or get into a home, small
details regarding insurance can be easily overlooked.
There are three key areas to keep in mind. They are:
How vacancy provisions might [...] Read more:Owners
, Home Owners
Buying a Home Today is Still a Good Idea 2008-01-12 12:57:33 Some buyers are hesitating to buy their first home now.
We have all seen the headlines, “HOUSING CRISIS…”, “MORTGAGE MELTDOWN…” . And you are worried about the real estate market, or about your ability to qualify for a loan with a good interest rate. Maybe you don’t want to make a move yet, because you’d like [...] Read more:Buying
, Today
San Antonio Home Builder Leaving San Antonio? 2008-01-09 13:12:01 Standard Pacific Homes, a California based home builder, has sold their lot inventory of 2500 homes to Forest City Land Group business unit and joint venture partner Covington Capital Corporation. Standard Pacific Homes, which has been in the San Antonio
market since 2005, builds homes in the $100k to $200K price range. That price point [...] Read more:San Antonio
, Builder
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San Antonio Cost of Living Lower Than Other Texas Cities 2008-01-06 16:37:16 The San Antonio
housing market remains strong in part to San Antonio
’s attractive cost of living compared to other major metro areas. As people continue to move to Texas
more than any other state, I believe that our lower cost of living has be to a major factor. So how much less expensive is to live [...] Read more:Living
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Home Sellers, Know the 5 P’s 2008-03-17 22:19:55 They say that the 3 most important aspects of selling your home is LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. Obviously, location is a key factor in the sale of a home. However, once you own a property, you can’t move it! So, you gotta deal with it. The first key factor is price. Let’s hope that between you [...] Read more:Sellers
Dave Ramsey Coming to San Antonio This Saturday 2008-04-07 12:26:45 If you don’t know who Dave Ramsey is, you should. Dave Ramsey is that “money” guy on the Radio who talks about debt and how to get out out of it, and he pulls no punches. He is the author of several best selling books including The Total Money Makeover, Financial Peace and More Than Enough. [...] Read more:Antonio
, Saturday
, San Antonio
Sellers, How critical is Price? 2008-05-05 12:36:34 Recently, I discussed the importance of staging your home, decluttering and depersonalizing. We call this the 5 P’s. PROPER PREPARATION PREVENTS POOR PRESENTATION. However, no matter how wonderful your home looks, if you are not on target with your price, then all your preparation has been wasted. It is extremely important that an agent is [...] Read more:Sellers
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My Monday Morning Trash Out 2008-05-05 17:04:17
Its Monday
morning and I am working at home today, I have emails to catch up on, and a jillion work related projects to get started on. But first, I had to clean out my refrigerator, YIKES!!!! (it is garbage truck day, those guys are heroes in my book, you should see what I gave [...] Read more:Morning
, Trash
, Monday Morning
Is San Antonio a Buyer’s market? 2008-06-10 22:00:06 Several of my clients lately have told me that “It’s a buyer’s market so we should be able to get instant equity” when we buy, or “It’s a buyer’s market so we can really low-ball the asking price”. Why do they think this? Simply, NATIONAL NEWS is of course reporting the real estate market as being [...] Read more:Antonio
, Buyer
, San Antonio
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