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The answer to this question is not as simple as looking at the monthly rents and comparing them to mortgage payments. According to Zillow Chief Economist Stan Humphries, other than looking at the monthly rents and mortgage payments, the following factors have to be considered before deciding whether to buy or to rent: time horizon …
The recent housing statistics of the Maryland Association of Realtors (MAR) reveal that Maryland’s average home price, median home price and home sales went up in June this year. According to MAR, the average Maryland’s home price in June 2012 was $317,659, a 6.7% increase from last year’s $297,813 average home price. Maryland’s median home …
According to Zillow‘s second quarter Real Estate Market Report, home values in the U.S. have reached a bottom. The Zillow report shows that U.S. home values increased by 0.2% year-over-year to $149,300, the first time since 2007 that this happened – five years after the U.S. housing bubble burst. Home values have also increased for …
Over three million older Americans are at risk of losing their homes through foreclosure, this according to the study “Nightmare on Main Street: Older Americans and the Mortgage Market Crisis” conducted by the AARP Public Policy Institute. The AARP Public Policy Institute study measures the progression of the mortgage crisis and its effect on older …
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CoreLogic reports that out of 1,353,647 mortgages in Maryland, 335,285 or 24.8% were negative equity mortgages or underwater in the first quarter of 2012. This data is an improvement from the 365,000 in the 4th quarter of 2011. In the first quarter of 2012, therefore, one in four borrowers in Maryland owed more on their …
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