3/9/2011 12:43:00 PM
Mortgage Applications Suggest a Pop in Home Sales
Weekly mortgage application data suggests that home buying demand may be strengthening to a level not seen since its summer collapse. Perhaps an improving job market is helping pave the way for an improving housing market. Lets hope so! And mortgage rates ...
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4/22/2010 12:03:00 PM
Albuquerque Home Sales on the Rise
The Albuquerque real estate market just keeps on showing signs of continued recovery as the 1,077 pending single family detached home sales in March 2010 showed an increase of 44 percent over the last year and 38 percent from the last month. The 1,077 pending ...
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3/26/2010 6:17:00 AM
Seeking the Older Dream Home
While being the youngest of the Smith brothers, Boyd learned early on to make due for himself believing in the importance of keeping a car running and a roof over his head. Boyd says he always enjoyed working on cars, but fixing up old homes became his first ...
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12/8/2009 12:03:00 PM
Lloyd Smith Finds His Green Acres in Northern New Mexico near Albuquerque
Floyd's identical twin Lloyd Smith was the second brother to visit the Albuquerque area a few weeks ago. Lloyd has a dream of one day having a "home on the range" somewhere outside the Albuquerque city limits. It will be a two step process - ...
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10/28/2009 7:36:00 AM
The Brothers Smith and Foreclosure Awareness
It is probable the Smith brothers contacted me through my website thinking there was an outside chance I might be a distant relative. After working the coal mines of West Virginia most of their adult lives, identical twins Floyd and Lloyd along with their ...
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8/26/2009 4:53:00 PM
Are The Days of "Nothing Down" Long Gone?
It doesn't seem all that long ago prospective home owners could find a multitude of lenders willing to grant conventional mortages with zero money down. As it turns out, this merely added kerosene to the fire known as sub prime loans leading to a real ...
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6/19/2009 9:31:00 AM
Buy a Home Says Uncle Sam
A piece of legislation that could have a major and positive impact upon the real estate market was in the news this week and I couldn't help but think that maybe, just maybe, the folks in Washington have finally come up with something to possibly get excited ...
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6/11/2009 7:48:00 PM
Baseball, Hot Dogs, and Apple Pie
This "buy American" policy is a lot easier said than done particullarly when it comes to your choice of transportation. I remember being perfectly happy with my Jeep as I approached the outskirts of El Paso for a weekend visit with my family when ...
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6/8/2009 10:03:00 AM
My Mortgage Rate Perspective
What is the reason for the recent home mortgage rate increase I asked myself just the other day. It seems recent success by the FED at thawing the nations' housing and credit markets has been trumped by record Washington borrowing amounts driving up yields ...
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