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Interactive Map Showing Dallas/Fort Worth Area Home Prices and Statistics for 3rd Quarter of 2009 The Dallas Morning News published an interactive map today showing the performance of the Dallas / Fort Worth area real estate market for the third quarter of 2009 compared to the second quarter of 2...
10/29/2009
REESTABLISHING YOUR CREDIT TO GET A MORTGAGE LOAN - DALLAS, TEXAS HOMES AND REAL ESTATE Despite the various reasons why people may find themselves in a financial bind that damages their credit rating, the major obstacle that stops most from rebuilding their credit is lack of knowledge regarding ...
10/22/2009
D/FW Area Single Family Home Sales - Four Year History With September 2009 The September 2009 Single Family D/FW Home Sales Report came out today. The report, supplied to me every month by Christina Anniboli of Republic Title, shows that the greater NTREIS area had a total of 6,020 sales for the...
10/13/2009
Here's a chart I put together that shows the number of single family home sales in the D/FW area for August of 2009 and also shows the months of inventory on the market for each price range. This data is interesting because it shows just how much the sales volume drops off on homes priced above ...
09/23/2009
Unemployment figures for August 2009 were recently released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The bad news is that unemployment continues to increase, although it appears that it may be slowing down. Unemployment in the United States was reported to be at 9.7%. The good news is that Texas and...
09/22/2009
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FEMA has an online seach engine which allows the general public to search flood maps by address. New home buyers who suspect their home may be in a flood zone may want to input their property address to see if the area was re-classified as a flood zone. FEMA has recently re-drawn some flood map...
09/21/2009
Checking the amount of property taxes for homes in the Dallas Fort Worth area can be a little tricky if you don't know where to go to find the information. Dallas, Collin, Tarrant, Denton and Rockwall counties all have their own tax appraisal districts and the taxes for each county are shown onl...
09/21/2009
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Mortgage rates have remained very low for quite some time now. In fact, many people have become used to the "record low" mortgage rate ads that have been plastered all over the TV, radio and internet for the last year or so. And for the most part, those ads have been true. Mortgage rates have ...
08/12/2009
The First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit is a great incentive for Dallas / Fort Worth area first time homebuyers. But to take advantage of it, you need to get your plan in motion and start looking for a home rather quickly. You must close and fund on the purchase of a home by no later than November ...
08/11/2009
Well I guess all of the emails from those Nigerian "millionaires" finally lost their effectiveness now that every person in the country receives at least 100 per day. So now the Nigerian scam artists have become more crafty in their tactics and are targeting people looking for rental properties ...
08/11/2009
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