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Which Is Better, A 15 Year Home Mortgage Or 30?

Buying a home is a great investment and a way to escape annoying neighbors and other inconveniences associated with living in an apartment complex. If you are looking to escape the upstairs neighbor who likes to play their music as …


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Raising Your Family In The Phoenix Area

This region of the country may be arid and the summers may be swelteringly hot, but even that’s not enough for families to avoid sunny Phoenix, Arizona.  In fact, Homes.com recently named Phoenix the sixth best city in America to …



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How To Take Advantage Of Phoenix Area Short Sales

It’s been a long time coming, but the Phoenix real estate market is showing significant signs of improvement. Purchase prices are stabilizing, there are more qualified buyers and the number of foreclosures and short sales is decreasing. The term short …


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What Will Happen To Mortgage Rates In 2013?

No one can predict with complete confidence what will happen with the housing market in the future, but luckily there are housing trends and data that can paint a fairly accurate picture of what will likely happen with mortgage rates …


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2013 Is The Year To Refinance

2013 is becoming the year to refinance.  Interest rates are still low and home prices are on the rise, causing many current homeowners to head to the bank for a better loan.  If you are interested in refinancing, make sure …


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Going To The Housing Market

Even though it may not seem like it, the housing market is slowly but surely making a recovery from its initial crash back in 2007. Even though home sales have dropped in recent months, the numbers have been some of …


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Phoenix Home Values Up 20%

                Phoenix was hit incredibly hard when the housing market crashed. The metro Phoenix area struggled for so long in the fledgling economy but has slowly and surely been recovering. In many reports of various housing market recovery topics, Phoenix …


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Phoenix Homeowners Still Underwater

We have been seeing positive signs of economic and housing market recovery both nationally and in the Phoenix area. Home prices are on the rise, people are rejoining the work force and getting back into home ownership and Phoenix has …


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Voters Pass Proposition 117, What Does it Mean?

                Now that election season is over, we all have to prepare for what changes are to come and how they will affect us.  In the real estate world, Proposition 117 was a much discussed proposition on the ballot.  Many …