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Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Business Success

The end of the year is a good time to reflect on your business’s progress over the past year and plan how you want your business to develop. Do you want increased [Read More...]

7 tips for a cross-country move

Moving to a new state is an exciting change, but it’s also one that comes with a fair amount of stress. After all, picking up all of your belongings and relocating [Read More...]

Home prices show biggest gain since 2006

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose in August from a year ago by the most since February 2006 as stronger demand boosted values. The S&P/Case-Shiller index of property [Read More...]

6 ways to ensure that qualified homebuyers get mortgages

A new paper raises concerns that mortgage-lending standards — after becoming dangerously lax during the housing bubble — could now lock out qualified, entry-level [Read More...]

A Hidden Marketing Tool in Mortgage and Lending

Many homeowners who currently have an FHA or VA mortgage don’t realize what a good marketing tool they have. These loans can be quickly and easily assumed by a new [Read More...]

Foreclosures, defaults in Sacramento area plummet to ‘normal’ levels

The foreclosure crisis that overwhelmed the greater Sacramento area for the past seven years has ended, figures released Tuesday suggest. Notices of default, which start the [Read More...]

Report shows rising property values in Sacramento region, California

Hard evidence of a healing real estate market in the Sacramento region and the state was released Monday by the state Board of Equalization. The value of 2013-14 assessed [Read More...]

Shutdown is having ‘notable impact’ on mortgages

Applications for government mortgage products dropped to a six-year low last week, as negotiations to end the U.S. government’s partial shutdown and avert a debt [Read More...]

One in six Sacramento Valley families with a mortgage refinanced last year

A sharp rise in home loan refinancing last year pushed down mortgage payments in the Sacramento valley and put millions of dollars back into the local economy, new federal [Read More...]

Home Prices Rising at Fastest Pace Since Start of Bubble

Home prices rose faster during the first seven months of 2013 than any year since 2004, the year that marked the beginning of the home-price bubble. [Read More...]

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