Category: First-Time Buyers

For years, a lot of would-be homebuyers have worried about the same thing. How do you compete with big investors who can swoop in, pay cash, and snap up the houses you want?

Today’s home prices have a lot of buyers – especially first-time buyers – wondering if there’s even anything out there that’s in their budget.

If you’ve thought about buying a home in the past few years, you may have run into two frustrations: asking prices that kept climbing and too few homes to choose from.

Quick gut reaction. Which investment do Americans trust more than stocks, gold, savings accounts, and bonds? The answer hasn’t changed in 14 years.

Student loans are back in the spotlight. And whether you’ve been following the headlines closely or just catching bits and pieces here and there, there’s a good chance they’ve been on your mind lately.

Saving for a down payment can feel like the hardest part of buying a home.

Open up a home search and you’ll see them. Listings that have been on the market for two months. Three. Some longer.

Whether you’re dreaming about buying your first home or wondering if it’s time to move on from the one you’re in, affordability is probably weighing on your mind.

You started shopping with a specific mental image of your future home in your mind. Then the houses in your budget came in smaller than you pictured.

If you’ve always assumed a newly built home is just not in your budget, you should know the math just got a little friendlier.