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Factors to Consider Unlike the cost of a gallon of milk or a flat-screen television, a home’s price can be hard to pin down. It’s complicated because each home is unique, and has its own story to tell. When it comes to setting the price of a house, the only thing to do is to [...]
Highlights: The new Housing Opportunities and Market Experience (HOME) report was created to monitor consumer sentiment about the housing market. This new report covers core topics that will be tracked on a monthly basis such as views on housing as a good financial investment, whether homeownership is part of the American Dream, if now [...]
The National Association of Realtor's, has released its Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends Report for 2015. Some Of The Highlights Characteristics of Home Buyers Gen Y comprises the largest share of home buyers at 32 percent, which is larger than all Baby Boomers combined. Younger Boomers comprise 16 percent and Older Boomers comprise 15 [...]
Every winter when the temperatures go down the heating bills go up, and you start seeing a lot of advice about home improvements you can make to keep your house warm without going broke. A lot of it is really good advice. But what if you don’t want to want to tackle a project in [...]
Today the Federal reserve, or Fed, is expected to raise it's interest rates. Why is this a big deal? The last time the Fed increased it's rates was in 2006. To put that in perspective, that's a full year before Apple released the original iPhone. Those rates control the cost of just about everything, [...]
Recording costs have always been a variable of nuisance when it comes to buying or selling a new home, refinancing an existing mortgage, or any other type of documents you may need to have recorded with the county’s Register of Deeds office. Why? Each county in the state of Michigan has the ability to [...]
In a handful of U.S. cities, residents enjoy Internet speeds one hundred times faster than the national average. Home and business owners in places like Chattanooga and Kansas City – connected to a 1-gigabit-per-second fiber optic network – can download HD movies in seconds, operate cutting-edge medical and technology firms and tap into optimized city [...]
With Thanksgiving around the corner, odds are you’ll soon be spending plenty of time in your kitchen. (Maybe even way more then you want!) Adding to the holiday stress levels: if your culinary workspace is tight, turning out meals for a crowd may be a real challenge, especially with more helpers (aka family members) around. [...]
Back in September we posted Traverse City vs Tall Buildings , as the battle over the skyline of our town was getting started. We have now seen our first approval for a tall building. The Traverse City planning commissioners voted 7-2 Tuesday to approve a special land use permit for a proposed nine-story [...]
Buying a Home Remains 35% Less Expensive than Renting! In the latest Rent vs. Buy Report from Trulia, they explained that home ownership remains cheaper than renting with a traditional 30-year fixed rate mortgage throughout the 100 largest metro areas in the United States. The updated numbers actually show that the range is from an average [...]
