After months and months of complaining that the time required for short sales is too long, it looks like change has actually happened. According to the Campbell study, the average time short sales are on the market during July was 15.8 weeks. this is down nearly 5 weeks compared with February when the average short [...]

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Alan Barker on August 27th, 2010

Well, the mortgage interest news is the same as it’s been every week for the last few months. Interest rates are down, again. According to the latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey the averaged 30 year fixed mortgage rate dropped .06% to just 4.34%. The 15 year fixed mortgage hit a new low with an average [...]

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Alan Barker on August 26th, 2010

Not only are there way too many big homes on the market, but there is now far less desire for people to ever own a Logan Luxury Home. A recent survey conducted by Trulia recently shows that American’s attitudes towards home ownership, and the size of homes they desire to own has drastically changed over [...]

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Alan Barker on August 20th, 2010

The standard news for Mortage Interest Rates, they’re down again. Because they keep going down every week, are people waiting to refinance until they drop further? Will we possibly see an increase in refinances the moment interest rates start going up? Probably not. Most people who can refinance right now and would benefit by it [...]

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Alan Barker on August 17th, 2010

The Logan Utah Real Estate market saw a huge drop in home sales activity following the expiration of the tax credit. Now we are starting to see things improve a little bit. The number of homes for sale, has gone down, and the number of homes under contract has gone up. Two weeks ago there [...]

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The number of homes listed as short sales has risen in Logan over the past month. While the total number of Cache County real estate listings is nearly identical to a month ago, the percentage of these homes requiring bank approval has increased. 4.75 percent of the listed homes in Cache Valley are short sales. [...]

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So the latest results from the weekly Freddy Mac Survey show that mortgage interest rates are at new all time lows again. The only difference is that now demand for these record low interest rates is even less. The good news is that less demand means that these lower than ever mortgage rates will probably [...]

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Alan Barker on August 12th, 2010

Most borrowers, especially first time buyers, are getting their financing via FHA home loans. There were some recent changes that increased the up front mortgage insurance amount when buying a home with a FHA loan. Now, those upfront payments will be reduced, but the monthly premium will be increased. The record breaking number of foreclosures [...]

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Alan Barker on August 10th, 2010

We all know that Logan is One of the Safest Communities in the Nation, well, as of today, it is even safer. There is now a functioning traffic light at the dangerous intersection of 100 W and Highway 89/91 by the South End Walmart. For most people, this probably isn’t blog worthy news at all. [...]

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Those who read my blog regularly know that Cache County Home sales were way down last month. I decide to run a little comparison, to see how this years Logan Real Estate sales compare with the average over the previous five years. Here are the results: Overall, home sales are down, but were down just [...]

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