Home Buying
Spring is Here in Cache Valley. The real estate market is picking up and the weather is actually nice on some days. It’s this time of year where we all remember why we love living in this great area. Here are the articles published in Cornerstone Real Estate Professionals monthly newsletter. These articles are nationally [...]
Good News. It looks like January’s awful home sales numbers were an anomaly. February home sales were much improved compared with January. The 58 reported home sales was an increase of 27.59% compared with February sales of 2011. This gives year over year monthly home sales improvements for eight of the last nine months. The [...]
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The number of homes for sale in Logan Utah is at its lowest level since April of 2008. That was at the height of the real estate boom for Cache Valley when homes prices were rapidly appreciating. It is typical for real estate inventory to decline during the fall and winter months, but inventory hasn’t [...]
Continue reading about October Sales Up 42% – Logan Real Estate Market Looking Good
Home sales during September in Cache County were pretty impressive. September was the second best month of the year for total home sales. On an annual basis, they were up 32.18% compared with September of last year, as 87 residential homes sold. This marks the fourth straight month that year over year home sales are [...]
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My wife and I recently made an offer on a home in Smithfield Utah. Unlike my current house, this home has a full basement. Knowing that most homes on the eastern bench in Utah have high radon levels, and being that I plan to live in this house for a very long time, I decided [...]
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Right now mortgage interest rates are the lowest they have ever been, making home ownership much less expensive than renting an equivalent house. I just locked into a 3.75% 30 year fixed mortgage interest rate today. One problem that many potential home buyers have is that they can’t qualify for a home loan because their [...]
I decided to do something new this month, and publish the links to the articles from our real estate newsletter on the blog. These are professionally written articles with all kinds of buying, selling, home loan, and credit tips, and practical home ownership advice. Some of the articles are more useful than others, so feel [...]
For Logan Utah Real Estate, it’s still the dead of winter, there isn’t much snow left, but that doesn’t mean that winter is over, or even close to being over. Spring is typically the busiest time of year for the listing of Logan homes, as most people want to move during the summer months when [...]
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For the first time in a long time, credit standards have actually loosened in regards to getting a home loan. Borrowers getting FHA home loans can once again get a mortgage with credit scores as low as 580. With no fanfare or public announcements, two of the largest FHA-approved lenders have backed off their controversial [...]
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It’s hard to believe, but 2010 is over. Real Estate sales in Cache Valley were clearly down from the last few years, and home prices are at the lowest they’ve been in four years. Mortgage interest rates are still very low. This storm of changes in real estate market conditions gives an excellent window of [...]
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