The House That Started It All Could Kickstart What's Next

Buying a first home rarely marks the end of a plan. It is usually the first step in one. A starter home is built to do a specific job: get a foot in the door and start building equity while life moves forward around it. For most owners, it was never meant to be the last house they would ever buy. Th

Priced Out? A Condo or Townhome Could Be Your Way In.

Home prices have plenty of buyers, especially first-time buyers, wondering if anything on the market actually fits their budget. The instinct is to keep waiting, keep saving, or keep searching for a single-family home that may not show up anytime soon. But narrowing the search to single-family homes

More Homes, Better Prices: A Buyer’s Summer

Buying a home over the past few years has meant fighting two problems at once: prices that kept climbing and too few homes to choose from. Both of those pressures are easing this summer. National data from Realtor.com shows sellers are pricing more realistically and more homes are hitting the market

The 1 Factor That Explains Everything Happening with Home Prices Right Now

Home prices are cooling off. That's the headline, and nationally, it's true. But zoom in on individual markets, and the picture looks nothing like the national average suggests. Some areas are still seeing solid price growth. Others have gone flat. A few have dipped slightly negative. The national n