Is It Better To Rent Than Buy a Home Right Now?

You may have seen reports in the news recently saying it’s more affordable to rent right now than it is to buy a home.

You may have seen reports in the news recently saying it’s more affordable to rent right now than it is to buy a home.
Over the past 5 years, home prices have risen dramatically. If you own a home, that means your house may be worth a lot more than you think.
Unfortunately, a lot of sellers today are setting their asking price too high. That’s leading to an uptick in price cuts.
Today’s blog post pretty much wrote itself after I posted on Facebook an article describing how much online traffic the two big online Real Estate portals, Zillow and Trulia, have versus the portal controlled by the National Association of Realtors – Realtor.com. Faithful readers began a lively discussion and the entire transcript evolved into…
Trying to decide between renting or buying a home?
The Florida Association of Realtors posted an interesting article yesterday about the number of sales that are cash transactions and how Florida is leading the nation in cash sales. http://www.floridarealtors.org/NewsAndEvents/article.cfm?p=1&id=296212 Some of the more interesting statistics from the article: Florida led the nation last month with what one expert called an “astounding” rate…
A lot of people assume spring is the ideal time to sell a house.