Our Blog Majority of Americans Plan on Buying Homes in Near Future According to the BMO Harris Bank Home Buying Report, 52% of Americans say they are likely to buy a home in the next five years. Americans surveyed for the report said that they would be willing to pay an average of … Read More Tags: first time home buyers, Home Buying, home inventory, home owners, Homeownership, shorewest, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Real Estate News Do You Plan to Move? Maybe You Should! Looking at the BMO Harris Bank Home Buying Report, there were a lot of interesting points made about the relationship between buyers and their homeownership journey. Of those who purchased a home, 8% bought “without any plan to buy at all.” A … Read More Tags: Equity, Fannie Mae, first time home buyers, First Time Home Seller, Home Buying, Home Selling, selling tips, shorewest, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Home Selling, Monday Motivation Resource Video: Buyers Edition What are Comparables? Today’s video centers on comparables or “comps”. Comparables is a real estate appraisal term that refers to properties with characteristics similar to a subject property whose value is being determined. This informational video guides you through what … Read More Tags: Comparables, first time home buyer, Home Buying, Resource Videos, shorewest, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Resource Video How to Stage your Home for the Millennial Buyer Your home fits your tastes and is decorated and laid out to your specifications, as it should be! But what happens when you need to sell your home? First all of your personal knick knacks need to be taken down … Read More Tags: first time home buyer, Home Selling, home selling tips, Millennial Buyers, millennials, Sellers, shorewest, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors, TuesdayTips Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Home Improvement, Home Selling, How to, Tuesday Tips Resource Video: Buyers Edition Determining an Offering Price Today’s video centers on what factors go into determining an offering price for a home. After selecting a home, determining how much to offer the seller can sometimes be a fine line to walk. This informational … Read More Tags: Buyers Edition, Offer Price, Resource Videos, shorewest, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, How to, Resource Video Garden Lingo You Should Know! Wisconsin may be teasing us with rain and cold weather but spring is coming, we promise! With warmer weather on the horizon it is time to get our gardens ready for planting and pruning. But what do all of those garden terms … Read More Tags: gardening, Gardening Tips, shorewest, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors, spring, TuesdayTips, USDA Categories: Community, DIY, First Time Home Buyers, Home Improvement, Home Selling, How to, Tuesday Tips Planning on Buying or Selling a Home? Act Now! Coming out of the 2008 slump has been a long hard climb. However we are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel with good news! The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) just announced that the February … Read More Tags: Buyers, KCM, keeping current matters, Mortgage, NAR, National Association of Realtors, PHSI, Sellers, shorewest, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Home Selling, How to, Monday Motivation, Mortgage Resource Video: Buyers Edition What is Prepaid Interest? Today’s video centers on prepaid interest. These are the charges due at closing for any daily interest that accrues on your loan between the date you close on your mortgage loan and the period covered by … Read More Tags: first time home buyers, Home Buying, monthly mortgage, Mortgage Loan, Prepaid Interest, Resource Videos, shorewest, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Real Estate News, Resource Video Snapshot of Today’s Buyer Let’s take a look at our current housing market snapshot. When looking at houses today it is important to keep current with what is going on in the market. This way we can keep track of housing trends and stay … Read More Tags: first time home buyer, loan officers, Millennial Buyers, millennials, NARGenTrends, National Association of Realtors, shorewest, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors, Wisconsin Mortgage Corporation Categories: Community, First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Mortgage, Neighborhoods, Real Estate News Resource Video: Buyers Edition What Does “PITI” Mean? Today’s video centers on the abbreviation “PITI”, or Principal, Interest, Taxes and Insurance. This is a very important abbreviation for buyers to learn as it has to do with your mortgage. Our family of companies includes … Read More Tags: insurance, Interest, Mortgage, Mortgage lending, Mortgage Loan, mortgage loans, PITI, Principal, Resource Videos, shorewest, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors, Taxes, Wisconsin Mortgage Corporation Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Resource Video Page 15 of 18« First‹ Previous1112131415161718Next ›