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Realtors confident on next six months
By Mike Wheatley
Realtors remain mostly confident in the next six months of the real estate market, thanks to 30-year fixed rates still below 4 percent, continued job growth, and recent measures that have made credit more accessible and cheaper, according to the April 2015 Realtor’s Confidence Index Survey, which is based on responses from more than 1,000 Realtors about their latest transactions.
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10 Ways to Make Your Living Room Look More Expensive
Just because you’re pinching pennies doesn’t mean you can’t have a luxurious living space. No one will know how much cash you saved with these quick fixes.
Paint Your Walls With Light Colors: Whites, creams, and non-heavy hues make everything brighter and cleaner, naturally giving your room a much more high-end vibe.
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Mortgage applications drop 1.6% as refinancing stalls
By Diana Olick
With the average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage now decidedly above four percent, borrowers are pulling back from refinances and struggling to make home purchases during a historically busy time of year for housing.
Total mortgage application volume fell 1.6 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier, for the week ending May 22, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). While volume is still higher than a year ago, it has fallen 10 percent in the last four weeks.
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A Home Buyer’s Guide to a Seller’s Market
By Annamaria Andriotis
In many parts of the country, this is a good time to sell a home. That could make it a risky time to buy one.
Houses are selling fast and prices are going up. Sales of existing homes nationwide are expected to reach the highest volume since 2006, according to the National Association of Realtors.
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Three Ways to Invest In a Home and Not Get Hurt
By Blanche Evans
Buy low, sell high. That’s the investor’s maxim that never fails. The trick is in knowing when to buy and when to sell. Investing in a home is never as easy or as quick to deliver returns as you may wish. We all want to ride the boom and avoid the crash. Here are three ways to buy a home safely.
Don’t try to time the market
Some homebuyers believe that waiting for prices or interest rates to go lower is the way to buy a home. But there are two things wrong with that approach.
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20+ Tips For Preparing Your Home For Sale
By Emily Fazio
Selling your home? The real estate market is ready to throw you plenty of curve balls that will keep you on your toes. Put your best foot forward, and do what you can in order to make your home shine.
Perform basic indoor maintenance:Consider how you would like the house to look when you’re moving in – sometimes it can be hard to look past a seller’s personal belongings, but it’s harder to look past damaged drywall, dirty fixtures, and cloudy windows.
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Rents are rising, pushing some into housing market
By Gremlyn Waddell
Renters, does it seem like there’s a bit less to go around lately than there was last year?
It’s not your imagination. Jeanie Teyechea, a Realtor with HomeSmart and the resort manager for Montesa at Gold Canyon, said rent for many …
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9 crazy smart home gadgets you didn’t know existed
By Sean Keach
According to industry bods, the future of technology lies in getting all of our gadgets talking to each other. One day, your clock will tell your toaster it’s time for breakfast, and all of your appliances will hop into early-morning action.
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Apple to hire up to 500 more than planned for Mesa command center
By Eric Jay Toll
The wisps of iCloud over Mesa are filled with solid silver linings. More than 300 additional workers – up to as many as 500, will be added to the 150 Apple executive-level positions planned for the tech giant’s Mesa command center.
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Mediterranean Chicken and Artichoke Stir Fry
Give this healthy stir fry a try!
Servings: 4
Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 50 mins
Nutrition: 407.9 cal
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Gilbert population passes Glendale for No. 4 in Valley
By Parker Leavitt
One year after passing Scottsdale to become the community with the fifth-largest population in the Valley, fast-growing Gilbert has taken another victim, this time overtaking Glendale for the No. 4 spot, according to new U.S. Census Bureau estimates.
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Be Home for Dinner More Often & 7 Other Rules for a Good Life
By Chris Widener
The direction of our lives is determined by the choices we make every day. They accumulate and add up to our ultimate destiny. What’s yours look like?
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