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  • First Time Home Buyer Tips

    For the first time home buyer, buying your first home is one of the most exciting things you will ever do. If you have spent years living in apartments, there is nothing more satisfying than owning your own property. The process can be a little lengthy and you might hit a few bumps in ...

  • The Truth about Mortgage Rates

    The best rumors have the longest staying power, and the untruths about the connection between Bank of Canada interest rate cuts and mortgage rates is a prime example. Why? Well, though Bank of Canada interest rate cuts do affect the financial industry, they do not affect every segment of the financial sector; ...

  • The Flexibility you Need: Benefits of Home Equity Lines of Credit

    You may wonder what the differences between home equity loans and home equity lines of credit are. Home Equity When you have a mortgage on your home but the value of the property exceeds the amount owed, the difference between the outstanding debt and the property value is referred as Home Equity. This remaining property value can be ...

  • Dazed and Confused: What Kind of Private Mortgage Insurance (pmi) Should You Choose?

    So, you’re putting less than a 20% down payment on the house you are buying and you are getting a conventional loan. Your lender has given you the option of paying a monthly private mortgage insurance (PMI) premium or offering you a higher rate where the lender pays it, known as ...

First Time Home Buyer Tips

Posted by Andretta Pierce Categories: Buying Real Estate, Featured, Real Estate
Feb
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For the first time home buyer, buying your first home is one of the most exciting things you will ever do. If you have spent years living in apartments, there is nothing more satisfying than owning your own property. The process can be a little lengthy and you might hit a few bumps in the road to home ownership.  [ Read More ]

Feb
10
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I’ve always been interested in property, having completed studies in interior design and have had a few lucky purchases when it comes to houses. I picked up a bargain with my first house, an ex-local authority end terraced place that I purchased for an absolute snip. After the usual updates eg. new kitchen, bathroom and  [ Read More ]

Feb
10
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The cost of maintaining a real estate property is indeed treated an expense that must be spread over the asset’s useful life even if it depreciates. In real estate, when you shed a sum for maintenance, repairs, and other property necessities to be used to generate sales, you treat the item as an expense. Let’s  [ Read More ]

Feb
10
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Real estate investment is perhaps one of the most lucrative forms of investment today. But it is also equally risk bound especially when one is not well versed with the trends and nuances of the real estate market. So if you are contemplating on investing in real estate, it is best to avoid costly mistakes in real estate investment  [ Read More ]

The Truth about Mortgage Rates

Posted by Andretta Pierce Categories: Buying Real Estate, Featured, Real Estate
Feb
10
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The best rumors have the longest staying power, and the untruths about the connection between Bank of Canada interest rate cuts and mortgage rates is a prime example. Why? Well, though Bank of Canada interest rate cuts do affect the financial industry, they do not affect every segment of the financial sector; some segments are directly affected,  [ Read More ]

Feb
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You may wonder what the differences between home equity loans and home equity lines of credit are. Home Equity When you have a mortgage on your home but the value of the property exceeds the amount owed, the difference between the outstanding debt and the property value is referred as Home Equity. This remaining property value can be used to guarantee  [ Read More ]

Jan
13
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Baby boomers, baby boomers, baby boomers; we all hear this term over and over again. So who are the baby boomers? Baby boomers are people in the United States who were born between 1946 and 1964. Approximately 78.2 million people fall into this category. As a group, baby boomers comprise the largest population cohort in  [ Read More ]

Jan
13
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So, you’re putting less than a 20% down payment on the house you are buying and you are getting a conventional loan. Your lender has given you the option of paying a monthly private mortgage insurance (PMI) premium or offering you a higher rate where the lender pays it, known as lender paid mortgage insurance (LPMI).  [ Read More ]

Jan
13
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It doesn’t matter whether you are purchasing your first home or second or even third, you are going to need to take out a mortgage to cover the costs of this purchase. So it is vital that you dedicate some time initially to finding the best mortgage lenders possible. Below we offer some tips that could  [ Read More ]

Jan
04
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Real Estate business has seen tremendous growth and so has been the need of Real Estate agent. Today more and more people are getting interested to become home owner and as the demand for real estate need increases the role of Real Estate Agent becomes more important. In the past one agent use to provide services to both  [ Read More ]

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