by Honeycrisp
July 2, 2010

Weighing all-cash versus mortgage-contingent offers Put another way, how should a seller compare and respond to an all-cash offer versus one requiring bank financing? In these days of increased competition over well-priced properties, it’s not uncommon to receive a flurry of offers in the first few weeks of a listing. Aside from following the tried [...]
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by Red Delicious
June 28, 2010

Wherever you turn, you can’t help but hear that mortgage rates are at historical lows. Rates for 15- and 30-year loans are hovering around 4.4% and 4.9%, respectively. At first, it was the Fed working to keep rates low via Mortgage Backed Securities purchases. More recently, the Greek and then the broader European debt crisis [...]
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