Keep Your Home Purchase on Track You’ve found your dream home. Make sure missteps don’t prevent a successful closing. Read Understanding Real Estate Representation Whether you’re buying or selling, it’s important to choose representation that meets your needs in the transaction. Read 4 Tips to Determine How Much Mortgage You Can Afford By knowing how [...]
Landscaping for Curb Appeal A well-landscaped yard creates curb appeal and helps your property retain maximum value. Read 7 Gardening Mistakes to Avoid Novice gardeners can get their landscapes off to a healthy start by heeding some tried-and-true tips from the pros. Read Lawn Maintenance Calendar Regular lawn maintenance gives your home maximum curb appeal [...]
Keep Your Home Purchase on Track You’ve found your dream home. Make sure missteps don’t prevent a successful closing. Read Understanding Real Estate Representation Whether you’re buying or selling, it’s important to choose representation that meets your needs in the transaction. Read 4 Tips to Determine How Much Mortgage You Can Afford By knowing how [...]
Motivated Sellers and Inventory Now is an ideal time to buy, in most markets prices won’t go any lower and there is an abundance of inventory. Inventory of homes for sale is at a 15-year high. There are many options out there for many buyers and many sellers who are willing to negotiate and [...]
FHA-approved lenders received the go-ahead to develop bridge-loan products that enable first-time buyers to use the benefits of the federal tax credit upfront, according to eagerly awaited guidance from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on so-called home buyer tax credit loans that was released today. Under the guidance, FHA-approved lenders can develop [...]
Tax Benefits of Homeownership The tax deductions you’re eligible to take for mortgage interest and property taxes greatly increase the financial benefits of homeownership. Here’s how it works. Assume: $9,877 = Mortgage interest paid (a loan of $150,000 for 30 years, at 7 percent, using year-five interest) $2,700 = Property taxes (at 1.5 percent on [...]
Whether you’re a buyer or seller you should know what’s going on in your area. Thought I would share this research on raw land (acreage with no added improvements) sales starting with 2001-2008 in the town of Northeast (Millerton) and Pine Plains, Dutchess County, New York for anyone that relies on numbers to make a [...]
