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So you've been searching for that perfect house to call a 'home,' and you finally found one! The price is right, and in such a competitive market that you want to make sure you make a good offer so that you can guarantee your dream of making this house yours comes true!
Freddie Mac covered "4 Tips for Making an Offer" in their latest Executive Perspective. Here are the 4 Tips they covered along with some additional informa...
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According to the Census Bureau, millennials have overtaken baby boomers as the largest generation in U.S. History. Millennials, or America's youth born between 1982-2000, now represent more than one quarter of the nation's population, totaling 83.1 million.
There has been a lot of talk about how, as a generation, millennials have 'failed to launch' into adulthood and have delayed moving out of their family's home. Some experts have even questioned whether or not millennials want to move out.
The great news is that not only do millennials want to move...
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) keeps historic data on many aspects of homeownership. One of the data points that has changed dramatically is the median tenure of a family in a home. As the graph below shows, for over twenty years (1985-2008), the median tenure averaged exactly six years. However, since 2008, that average is almost nine years – an increase of almost 50%.
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) recently released their latest Existing Home Sales Report revealing that distressed property sales accounted for 4% of sales in September. This is down from 7% in 2015, and is the lowest figure since NAR began tracking distressed sales in October 2008.
Below is a graph that shows just how far the market has come since January 2012 when distressed sales accounted for 35% of all sales.
