With Mortgage Rates Climbing, Now’s the Time To Act Last week, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate from Freddie Mac jumped from 3.22% to 3.45%. That’s the highest point it’s been in almost two years. If you’re thinking about buying a home, this news may have come as a bit of a shock. But the truth is, it wasn’t entirely unexpected. Experts […]
Read MoreAs we move into 2022, both buyers and sellers are wondering, what’s next? As we move into 2022, both buyers and sellers are wondering, what’s next? Will there be more homes available to buy? Will prices keep climbing? How high will mortgage rates go? For the answer to those questions and more, we turn to […]
Read MoreAfter spending months at home on lockdown, I realized it was time my deck and front stairs could use some love. When done right, decks and patios can extend your living space, bringing the indoors outside and the outside in. Decking materials The most frequent question I get asked about decks is whether the […]
Read MoreWhen mortgage forbearance plans were first announced and the pandemic surged through the country in early 2020, many homeowners were allowed to pause their mortgage payments. Some analysts were concerned that once the forbearance program ended, the housing market would experience a wave of foreclosures like what happened after the housing bubble 15 years ago. […]
Read MoreInsulation in your home provides resistance to heat flow and lowers your heating and cooling costs. Properly insulating your home not only reduces heating and cooling costs, but also improves comfort. How Insulation Works To understand how insulation works it helps to understand heat flow, which involves three basic mechanisms — conduction, convection, […]
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