It is true that everything I’ve ever bought had been 100% financed with OPM. My experience leads me to believe, therefore, that down-payments are not necessary. I’ve also on occasion asserted that making down payments is rather not smart, aside for being unnecessary. All of this might lead you to believe that I am against down […]
If you could buy prime beachfront property at a bargain price, wouldn’t you? Finding a steal in the U.S. is probably not going to happen. Housing affordability is diminishing, and in some markets homes are even less affordable now than they were in the heyday of the housing bubble. So investors, retirees and adventurous […]
There are dozens of Internet sites out there that reveal how much your home is worth. They are called “automated valuation model” (AVM) sites, which use statistical modeling techniques that calculate the property value by comparing it with similar-sized homes that have recently sold in your area. These tools crunch their data with publicly available […]
Two years after launching as a rental marketplace, Zumper is finally doing what it set out to accomplish from the very beginning: streamline the rental application process by bringing it online. With the release of the Zumper Rental Application, aka “Zapp,” rental brokers, agents, property managers and landlords on Zumper can sign up to accept the digital apps that come complete with credit […]
As the summer winds down, typically, so does the housing market. But the first readings from August, which came in this week, point to continued growth in housing demand as the year progresses. On the manufacturing front, Markit’s U.S. manufacturing index grew in August to 57.9 based on strength in new orders in exports and […]
