Longwood real estate and mortgage rate shoppers – beware.  When it comes to low mortgage rates, you can’t always believe what you read in the papers, get in your mailbox [as you go through your mail standing over the garbage can] or hear on TV. Or, for that matter, what you see in official looking [...]

FHA Loans + $7500 Tax Credit + High Inventory = Orlando Real Estate Deals Phew – Made it through the holidays, and day-to-day life is setting back in. I love Christmas, for me it helps pull everything back into perspective for an approaching New Year. So now that the lights are back in the boxes [...]

Okay, so the subject line is long – but, believe it or not I cut it short. It could have been, “First Time Home Buyers can couple $8000 Tax Credit and Low Interest Rates and high inventories to buy Longwood Real Estate” We are seeing an unbelievable ‘perfect storm’ for buyers! Beware though – when [...]

Well Good News for Lake Mary mortgage rates! The Federal Open Market Committee [maybe we will just call them the FED] voted to cut the Fed Funds Rate by at least three-quarters percent Tuesday. The benchmark rate now rests in a range of 0.000-0.250%… and no, that doesn’t mean your mortgage will be at 0%. [...]

Finding the best Longwood mortgage interest rates can be tricky business… locking them in before the market swings makes it even more so! Each Wed., the Mortgage Bankers Association [MBA] releases its Weekly Applications Survey which gives a detailed look at the new mortgage applications done over the last seven days. A recent interest rate [...]

Lake Mary First Time Home Buyers… perk up.  We all know what inflation is and the ugliness that can go with it.  Most of us know that deflation is the opposite of inflation…. but don;t know much more than that. In fact, business TV and newspapers have inflated deflation [sorry for the play on words... [...]

So you wanna deal on Longwood Real Estate. I completely understand… I do to, in fact with the gloom they are painting for retail this Christmas [and Yes, iI am one of the ones still willing to CALL it Christmas] I have thought about scooping up a deal on one of those super-duper flat-screens… but [...]

It is important for Florida Home buyers to know that Florida FHA loan limits are going down for 2009.  For 2008 Seminole County loan limits, it is a HUGE drop.  The new loan limits per county are as follows: MSA Name MSA Code Division County Name County Code State One-Family Two-Family Three-Family Four-Family Last Revised [...]

Foreclosure – especially in Florida is a hot topic among the press lately and it is interesting to see a staggering number of the sales in today’s market are comprised of foreclosures and/or short sales… especially in South Florida.  It’s hard to turn on the TV or open up a paper without seeing a sensationalized [...]

How come everything in Orlando gets cheaper when everyone is worried about their job and don’t want to spend any money!! Okay, so it is a rhetorical question and the answer is somewhat obvious, but how cool would that be if, everything got cheaper and you just got a raise!? I feel your pain. Well, [...]