Homebuyers' New Year's resolutions for 2012
20.05.12
Over the 18 years that I have been writing this column, I have offered New Year's resolutions for homebuyers and sellers, along with financial resolutions that everyone can use to start their year off right.
Unfortunately, it has been another very difficult year in real estate. And while we believe that the housing market will start to stabilize in 2012, we also believe it could be another very difficult year for home sellers, agents, appraisers, mortgage lenders, home inspectors, and title and escrow companies.
On the other hand, if you're buying a home to live in or as an investment, 2012 looks like it'll be another terrific year.
Before we get to the resolutions, let's look at a snapshot of 2011 in the real estate market:
Roughly 25 percent of homeowners are underwater or are nearly underwater with their mortgages, according to third quarter of 2011 data from CoreLogic.
New home sales remain at near record-low levels, with only an estimated 310,000 new homes sold in
Source: Daily Breeze