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  Mortgage Interest Rates at NEW Record Lows Okay, so Mortgage Interest Rates are at a NEW record low. This is happening so often, it’s barely even news any more. The fact is that housing interest rates are so unbelievably low it’s almost unreal. Even though Utah home prices might drop a little bit more over the next year, from an affordability aspect, [...]

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  Parade of Homes: Signs That The Real Estate Market Has Changed So Yesterday I blogged about the Cache Valley Parade of Homes, about how it is a fun opportunity to see homes that you can only dream about. Well that blog was posted before I actually visited any of the houses on this years parade… Homes on Past Years Cache Valley Parade of Homes Homes on [...]

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  Parade of Homes Time in Cache Valley Every Year, the Cache Valley Home Builders Association hosts what is known as the “Parade of Homes” The “Parade” is an event where builders can show off some of their most impressively built fancy homes. These homes usually have the finest materials, and are professionally staged and decorated. Lookers can fantasize and imagine their dream [...]

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  A New Way To Lose The Deal – Mortgage Insurance Unapproval In the real estate world there are lots of reasons that deals fall through. Logan Real Estate transactions fall through all the time because the home inspection comes in unacceptable, or the borrower is unable to get financing. Well now there is a new exciting way for transactions to fail: Failure to Qualify for Mortgage [...]

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  New Cornerstone Agent – Lori Gardner Cornerstone Real Estate Professionals has a new agent Lori Gardner. Lori may be a new agent, but she is on fire. She is already working with several clients and is clearly a go getter. She is the mother of five children, and knows how to work. Lori graduated from Utah State University, and has lived [...]

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  Top 10 Home Features Buyers Want ZipRealty recently did a survey to find out what home features home buyers most want. As a home seller, especially in a buyers market, these are good to know. If your home has these features, you want to do what you can to highlight these features. If most people are looking for certain features, and [...]

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  There Has Never Been So Many Logan Homes for Sale Right now there are 854 residential homes for sale in Cache County Utah. By my records, this is the highest amount of Real Estate Inventory Cache County has ever had. The previous high I ever noted was 850 in July of last year. So what does this mean? In basic economics, it simply means that [...]

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  No Bank of America Foreclosures in Utah Right Now Right now, thanks to a temporary legal battle there won’t be any Bank of American Foreclosures in Utah for a little while. Bank of America   probably has more properties in default than any other Utah lender. This is in large part due to their acquisition of Countrywide, which was one of the biggest lenders and [...]

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  Mortgage Rates at a 46 Year Low Today I just got an email notifying me that FHA Mortgages are at their lowest point in 46 years! The par rate is 4.5%. That means if you pay more up front, you can get an even less expensive rate. BankRate.com has the par rate of some 30 year fixed conventional rates at 4.534%, 15 year [...]

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  Tool for Searching Utah Real Estate Blogs I stumbled upon a little tool that makes a search engine out of real estate blogs. So if you want to do a search engine search from the different Cornerstone Real Estate blogs, then try out this little widget: Lijit Search

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  Do You have a vacant, high end home? Consider Home Tending I have blogged several times before about the huge surplus of real estate inventory for high end homes in Cache Valley. The potential of these homes selling any time soon is just plain not good. Sellers of these properties need to be realistic, and if they have to move and leave them vacant, they [...]

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