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Title Insurance Calculator

January 28, 2010

Coming soon. Check back tomorrow and you can use this great title insurance calculator.
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Not all situations in real estate sales have the same solution, and many times we have to apply some “thinking outside of the box” solutions to our home buyers’ needs.
Just yesterday, I received the following question from a “home site” buyer in Georgia who needed some advice on creative financing:

I am in a situation right [...]

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One of my agents relayed a story to me yesterday that I felt would make for a great post on the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog. He told me that he is helping a buyer buy a short sale in Tallahassee, and he shared with me the conversation  he had with the listing agent.
The listing agent [...]

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Do you ever wonder how much lending practices really affected the Tallahassee housing market? We read so many stories about “predatory lending” and abused government loan programs, that I got a little curious and decided to check out the history of mortgage loans in Tallahassee.
I decided to limit my sales information to “arms length home [...]

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Every year, the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University puts together a report on the State of the Nation’s Housing. This year’s report was published a few days ago and I thought I would share some of the key findings of the report.

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Yesterday the Federal Reserve announced a $500 billion commitment to purchase mortgage back securities (MBS) and a $100 billion commitment to purchase debt of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks. This infusion of capital into the mortgage market caused the average 30-year mortgage rate to drop to the lowest rates in [...]

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Century 21 First Realty held its weekly sales meeting yesterday at our office and we were visited by Karen Gillispie, a residential lending specialist, from Premier Bank in Tallahassee. The purpose of her visit was to update the staff on the various products and loan programs for first time hombuyers.
It is interesting to note that [...]

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If you are in the market for a new mortgage loan, whether for buying a home or refinancing a home, then you might have run across a term that is causing great confusion in the real estate market today. The term that I am referring to is “Declining Markets.”
What Is A Declining [...]

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