The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has announced their new loan limits—and it looks like it’s another increase in 2019!

While your student loan debt may look like the biggest obstacle getting in the way of homeownership, a lender may not see it as much of a threat. Here are what lenders are looking at and how your student loan debt affects your approval.

If you’ve ever had a credit card or purchased a car, you should be familiar with interest rates. An interest rate is the percentage of the amount you are borrowing (known as the principle) charged by the lender as a fee for allowing you to use their money....

After several stressful months of buying or selling your home, it may be tempting to put the transaction in the past and dispose of the evidence—which is often more than 100 pages. However, there are several important legal and financial documents...

Everyone wants to sell their house for more than they bought it for, but real estate is trickier than that. Markets change, and home values change right along with them. Fortunately, there are licensed professionals called appraisers who will come to your home,...

Whether you are a first-time homebuyer or searching for home number ten, buying a condo instead of a house may be the perfect choice. Most condos are essentially a hybrid between an apartment and a single-family home. They are great for certain lifestyles but...

Before making what may be the largest investment of your life, you’ll want to get a home inspection. Home inspectors are trained to examine the physical structures and systems of a house. If you’re going to spend hundreds of thousands of your...

Increasingly, Americans are choosing to invest in real estate instead of stocks, bonds, or mutual funds. From 2000 to 2016, real estate outperformed the stock market at a ratio of about 2-to-1. For three years in a row, Bankrate found more U.S. adults feel...

Ever wonder about the difference between a real estate agent and a realtor? They’re the same, right? Not so. Working with a real estate agent can take a lot of time and stress out of the home buying process, but not all real estate agents are the same....