Is the FHFA Making Home Buying More Affordable?
A rule change related to how America's largest loan guarantors calculate upfront mortgage fees is set to take effect May 1.
Fees on new mortgages will become relatively cheaper for home loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. For borrowers with ...
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Posted by Helen Ford, Broker / Owner on May 2, 2023 in Dallas/Fort Worth Real Estate Market
Falling Mortgage Rates Add Fuel to Housing Recovery
Borrowing costs are decreasing as home sales are rising, which bodes well for a potentially active spring market.
Mortgage rates continued to slide this week, adding more fuel to what appears to be a recovering housing market. The 30-year fixed-rate ...
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Posted by Helen Ford, Broker / Owner on April 4, 2023 in Dallas/Fort Worth Real Estate Market
Guess What Zip Code Ranked Highest for Home Affordability ?
Forney’s ZIP code was one of the top performers in the U.S. housing market last year, new research from Opendoor shows.
Forney’s population grew 86% between 2010 and 2021, according to the census bureau. From November 2021 to 2022, the ...
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Posted by Helen Ford, Broker / Owner on January 10, 2023 in Dallas/Fort Worth Real Estate Market
Will Dallas-Fort Worth’s resilient housing market crash in 2023?
Record-low mortgage rates, a wave of millennial homebuyers and record-low inventory pushed the North Texas housing market into a two-year frenzy after the start of the pandemic.
That finally ended in the spring, largely due to a steep climb in ...
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Posted by Helen Ford, Broker / Owner on December 27, 2022 in Dallas/Fort Worth Real Estate Market
NAR Names Dallas-Fort Worth One of The Top Real Estate Markets to Watch in 2023
While 2022 hasn’t exactly turned out to be a picnic for the real estate industry, many industry forecasts are predicting 2023 to be a challenging year. Looking into his crystal ball, National Association of Realtors chief economist and senior ...
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Posted by Helen Ford, Broker / Owner on December 20, 2022 in Dallas/Fort Worth Real Estate Market
Dallas Fort Worth Sees Its Third Consecutive Month of Home Price Declines
The North Texas housing market is returning closer to pre-pandemic levels of price growth.
Dallas-Fort Worth home prices rose 16.3% from September 2021 to 2022 but declined in recent months, according to the latest reading of the S&P ...
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Posted by Helen Ford, Broker / Owner on December 6, 2022 in Dallas/Fort Worth Real Estate Market
Dallas: A City for Opportunists
By Arthur Greenstein
We hear about it every day – the interest rate is going up, supply issues, backed-up permit offices, and the pending recession. A lot of what you read might be clickbait, the doom, and gloom that draws our ...
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Posted by Helen Ford, Broker / Owner on November 22, 2022 in Dallas/Fort Worth Real Estate Market
DFW Home Prices Hold Strong Over Other Texas Metros
The national housing downturn spurred by higher mortgage rates and affordability challenges is reverberating across the Lone Star State.
In Dallas-Fort Worth, though, prices are soaring more than in other Texas metros, and the ...
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Posted by Helen Ford, Broker / Owner on November 8, 2022 in Dallas/Fort Worth Real Estate Market
DFW Expected To Be #2 Of Nation's Hottest Real Estate Markets
Dallas-Fort Worth is expected to be one of the nation’s hottest real estate markets next year for investment and development.
D-FW area trails only Nashville in a scorecard of metro areas that property executives expect to prosper. North ...
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Posted by Helen Ford, Broker / Owner on November 1, 2022 in Dallas/Fort Worth Real Estate Market