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If you’re shopping for a new home, you notice when this signage pops up: Sale pending. It’s a firm signal that a buyer has dibs on the home. “We’re almost there!” it shouts for the world to hear. Almost there,…
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Proactively Maximize Your Deed’s Value—Don’t Just Wait.
Inflation, whether it runs high or moves at its historically normal rate, erodes your dollars. As a deed holder, at least you do have certain ways to offset inflation. A key method? Proactively boosting your deed’s value through home improvements.
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Tariffs and More: What Happens Now With the 2025 Housing Market?
There’s some extra tension in the real estate market. Anyone can sense it. Knowing what’s going on underneath it can help those who hope to acquire a deed this year. Home prices haven’t stopped rising in 2025. Prices could easily…
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Real Estate Investors: Are the Best Days Behind Us, or Ahead?
With the price surges we’ve experienced in recent years, some real estate investors are selling their properties. Will new investors come to fill the vacuum? Maybe not so many — now that some of these properties have become prohibitively costly…
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Live and Learn! What I Wish I Knew as a Real Estate Buyer
It’s always nice to learn from others’ mistakes and revelations, before we’re in the position to deal with similar situations ourselves. In this spirit, here are a few things first-time deed holders say they wish they knew before buying.
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Older Adults, Look Out for These Two Common Deed Bloopers
What are the most common fumbles older adults make with deeds? Let’s take it from the top.
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FHA Layoffs? Here’s What Home Buyers Want to Know
A powerhouse of the U.S. housing market seems at the brink of a major staff cut. HUD is the Department of Housing and Urban Development. It oversees the country’s FHA-backed loans. And it’s in for some turbulence.
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Single and Looking (for My Very Own Deed)
Single and looking? Take heart! So many people would love to be in your position. Some never have a home that’s theirs alone. If you think most people in the current real estate market are couples, you’re right. Yet single…
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Is the 30-Year Mortgage Best?
Most home buyers go with a 30-year mortgage. There are other options — most notably the 15-year mortgage. The shorter mortgage typically comes with a lower interest rate. But it also means higher monthly payments. The monthly weight of a…
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Was Your Seller Inspired by Pinocchio? Buyer Remedies for False Disclosure Statements
In a recent survey, more than half of sellers admitted to not disclosing a known problem with their property. Although this is just one survey, the point bears noting. Buyers should probably expect to find issues with their homes. A…
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The Struggle Continues: Deed Equity Means Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
The African-American and Hispanic homeownership rate has generally been below 50%. Now, there’s a group on a mission to include the “have nots” in the U.S. population of deed holders. It’s taking down hurdles to homeownership, like the need to…
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Transferring a Deed Before the Loan Is Paid Off? Be Mindful of the “Due-on-Sale” Clause
Are you thinking of transferring your deed? You might be quitclaiming the deed to someone you know, or you might be transferring it into a company or trust. Or you might be getting ready to sell. In all of these…
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Splitting Lots: What It Takes to Subdivide a Piece of Property
Trying to purchase land and subdivide it? Or hoping to split a lot you have? It could be harder than it seems. Subdividing land involves dividing a single property into smaller parcels. Local governments often greenlight companies that create large…
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Should I Claim a Home Office Deduction?
Some taxpayers can claim a break for the expenses involved with their home offices. Eligible taxpayers use their home office space “regularly and exclusively” for the purpose of their businesses, according to the Internal Revenue Service. This is the case…
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Back in the Game: How to Get Another Deed After a Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, or Short Sale
Finding a mortgage again after a financial setback can seem like an impossible feat. But it’s doable. Here, we consider foreclosures, short sales, and bankruptcies. We look at how they can be overcome for the purpose of acquiring a deed…
