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Category: Mortgage Rates

Buying a house? Here’s where all-cash deals are most competitive.

December 11, 2020December 11, 2020

PUBLISHED FRI, DEC 11 2020

Diana [email protected]/[email protected]@DIANAOLICK

All-cash sales now make up about 36% of the market, according to realtor.com.
Some markets are seeing a […]Read more

California, Sacramento, S.F. home sellers have record equity 

October 22, 2020October 22, 2020

Time to test the market? California home sellers walking away with record amounts of cash

BY TONY BIZJAK,  SACRAMENTO BEE,  OCTOBER 22, 2020

Despite the […]Read more

Bay Area home buyers scoop up shrinking inventory at furious pace – SFChronicle.com

October 19, 2020October 19, 2020

The Bay Area real estate market continued its roaring recovery in September, as buyers took advantage of ultra-low mortgage rates to scoop up a shrinking […]Read more

JP Morgan Chase to spend $30 billion to close the racial wealth gap

October 8, 2020October 8, 2020

By Charisse Jones
USA TODAY

Amid a national reckoning on racism, JP Morgan Chase says it will dedicate $30 billion to closing the racial wealth […]Read more

SF’s housing market is weakening as some suburbs see ‘crazy heated insanity’

August 18, 2020August 18, 2020

by Kathleen Pender, Aug. 17, 2020

The coronavirus continued reshaping the Bay Area housing market last month, as demand for homes was weakest in San […]Read more

Should you refinance your mortgage right now? 

August 10, 2020August 10, 2020

by Maurie Backman, The Motley Fool
 
Now may be a good time to refinance — but only if you plan to stay in your home […]Read more

Stunning rebound:  Bay Area home sales surged nearly 70% from May to June; prices rose 3.6% 

July 17, 2020

Kathleen Pender    July 16, 2020 

The Bay Area home market saw an enormous resurgence in sales and a modest increase in prices from May […]Read more

BAY AREA FAMILIES ARE FUELING NAPA VALLEY’S REAL ESTATE MARKET

July 15, 2020

By NewsMoot

 

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The Napa Valley real estate market is booming with multiple offers and bidding wars. Bay area families looking to escape […]Read more

Video tours? Suburbs? Coronavirus changes how and where we buy homes

May 28, 2020May 28, 2020

By Charisse JonesJessica Menton
USA TODAY

Jessica Chamorro’s dream of owning her first home was upended in March after she was furloughed from her catering […]Read more

Why you should think twice about delaying your mortgage payments.

May 4, 2020May 4, 2020

By Anna Bahney, CNN Business

Rob Allen and his friends used to talk about sports all the time.  These days, the main topic of conversation […]Read more

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