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Americans Rank Real Estate Best Investment for 6 Years Running! [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Real estate has outranked stocks/mutual funds, gold, savings accounts/CDs, and bonds as the best long-term investment among Americans for the last 6 years.
Stock owners are more positive about real estate than stocks as an investmen…

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Top 4 Renovations for the Greatest Return on Investment! [INFOGRAPHIC]

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If you are planning on listing your house for sale this year, these four home improvement projects will net you the most Return on Investment (ROI).
Minor renovations can go a long way toward improving the quality of your everyday …

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What is the Cost of Waiting Until Next Year to Buy? [INFOGRAPHIC]

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The “cost of waiting to buy” is defined as the additional funds necessary to buy a home if prices & interest rates were to increase over a period of time.
Freddie Mac forecasts interest rates to rise to 4.5% by the Q4 2020.
Core…

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The Cost of Renting vs. Buying This Spring [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Historically, the choice between renting or buying a home has been a tough decision.
Looking at the percentage of income needed to rent a median-priced home today (27.7%) vs. the percentage needed to buy a median-priced home (17.5…

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Existing Home Sales Slow to Start Spring [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Existing Home Sales slowed to an annual pace of 5.21 million home sales in March.
Low inventory levels are still impacting home sales! The current month’s supply of homes for sale is 3.9-months.
Median home prices were up 3.8% over …

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5 Reasons Why Millennials Buy a Home [INFOGRAPHIC]

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  • “The majority of millennials said they consider owning a home more sensible than renting for both financial and lifestyle reasons — including control of living space, flexibility in future decisions, privacy and security, and living in a nice home.”
  • The top reason millennials choose to buy is to have control over their living space, at 93%.
  • Many millennials who rent a home or apartment prior to buying their own homes dream of the day when they will be able to paint the walls whatever color they\’d like or renovate an outdated part of their living space.

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