Real Estate

Tips on Increasing Your Chance of Landing a Mortgage

Today’s mortgage rates are the utmost come-on for would-be homebuyers. In its Primary Mortgage Market Survey released last Thursday, Freddie Mac reported that the 15-year fixed mortgage rate averaged a new all-time record low at 3.13%. Meanwhile, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged at 3.88%, the lowest rate in history. “With these historically low rates and …

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RealtyTrac Reports Shift Towards Short Sales and Away from Foreclosure Sales

In its 2011 Year-End U.S. Foreclosure Sales Report, the information provider RealtyTrac reports that in the national scale, pre-foreclosure sales – which are mostly short sales – increased by 15% from a year ago; while Real Estate Owned (REO) sales or sales of properties as a result of foreclosure decreased by 12%. In terms of …

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24% of Maryland’s Residential Properties with Mortgage are Underwater, CoreLogic Reports

CoreLogic, an information and analytics provider, announced  today/yesterday that 11.1 million or 22.8% of residential properties with a mortgage in the U.S. were underwater at the end of the fourth quarter of 2011. CoreLogic report shows that at the end of the fourth quarter of last year out of 1,360,309 residential properties with mortgage in …

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