Archive for the ‘Buying a Home’ Category
Monday, June 16th, 2008
If you rent out your vacation home, you will probably have to pay 20% over the cost of typical second-home insurance. That's caused by the fact you'll be spending there even less time than most second-home owners and insurance companies see your house is at even higher risk. Moreover, they ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
The Best Investment
As a typically general rule, homes appreciate about 4 or 5 percent a year. Some years will be more, some less. The figure will differ depending on neighborhood and region.
5% may not seem like that much at first. Stocks might appreciate much more, and you could easily earn ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Timing Your Purchase to the Market Cycle
One problem when you try to time your purchase with the business cycle is that even experts have difficulties with properly predicting the future economy. Even when they can, the real estate market doesn’t have to be aligned with the stock market or the ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Recession and Expansion
Sometimes the economy is brisk and everybody feels confident about his or her prospects for the future. Therefore, they tend to spend money. People eat out more, buy new cars, and they purchase new houses.
But ultimately, for one reason or another, the economy slows down. Companies lay off ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Decreasing house prices surely create no shortage of newspaper headlines. Although a number of these headlines may seem unnecessarily catastrophic, falling house prices are not really the end of the world. Actually, falling house prices can be advantageous to some people.
Who Benefits from Falling House prices?
First time buyers. Currently ...
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