By Julie Ryan Evans
Maybe you’ve been inspired by those “Sold” signs in your neighborhood; maybe you’re just ready for a change of scenery. Whatever the case, a great way to get an idea of how much your home is worth is to look a...
By Ana Durrani
Most homebuyers embark on their house hunt with a list of deal breakers, but an outdated bathroom typically isn’t one of them. Sure, it might be hard to imagine yourself relaxing in a bathtub surrounded by stai...
By Lisa Marie Conklin
Many homebuyers today are losing sleep over steeply rising interest rates, which have more or less doubled over the past year and reached their highest level in two decades. Now hovering in the mid-6% range, these ...
By Kimberly Dawn Neumann
Many first-time homebuyers might shy away from the prospect of buying a brand-new home, assuming: It will cost too much. It will take too long.
While purchasing new construction is indeed different f...
By Larissa Runkle
We’ve all read the headlines: Fuel and electricity costs are on the rise, and they’re only going to get more expensive as temperatures continue to drop. In some cases, the energy crisis has become so extreme that pe...
By Daniel Bortz
An interest-only mortgage is a type of home loan where you start off paying only the interest for a certain time period, followed by a time where you pay back both the interest and principal.
Most interest-only home ...
By Kimberly Dawn Neumann
With mortgage interest rates near 7% and home prices hovering at a national median of $425,000, many homebuyers might be wondering how they’ll be able to pay for a property, and searching for ways to ...
From hardwood to vinyl to tile kitchen flooring options, find the best kitchen flooring for you.
So many factors play into choosing a kitchen floor: How much do you cook? Do you have an open floor plan? What’s the most durable?...
By Kimberly Dawn Neumann
While buying any home is an expensive endeavor these days, buying a brand-new home—where everything is in pristine condition—will understandably cost a bit more.
Recent data from the National Association o...
By Kathleen Willcox
Selling a home is no longer the easy feat it was last year—or even six months ago.
Between the news that we already seem to be slipping into an unofficial recession and a serious home market slowdown, many sel...