When you buy a home, you have the option of buying the home in a trust. Why opt to purchase a home in a trust? By getting a property in a trust, you hold the property for your benefit and the benefit of whomever you decide to own it after you. You …
A financial planner explains why buying a home is one of the best investments you can make
“Automatic Millionaire” author David Bach explains the importance of buying a home, paying it off quick, and using it to build wealth. Follow BI Video: On Twitter
Buy Smart: 4 Home Investments Worth the Debt
As smart consumers, we generally try to avoid acquiring unnecessary debt – we might take a loan to buy a car or have a mortgage on our homes to afford a good location, but with smaller purchases we save, shop carefully, and proceed with caution when …
Buying a House? HGTV’s Scott McGillivray Offers 5 Money-Saving Tips
Before you start looking at a home, make sure you’ve done your research. Not only on the neighborhood and schools, but also comparable sales (comps) of recently sold homes. There is so … of dollars to put toward new furniture or renovations, or even …
9 Unexpected Costs that come with Buying a Home
If you’re planning to buy a house in the near future, you’re probably getting your credit in order, scouting out your favorite neighborhoods, and saving up for a 20% down payment. But the down payment and the mortgage aren’t the only costs to prepare for …
5 tips for buying your first home
For many people, the dream of owning a home might become a reality next year, especially with signs pointing to a homebuyer’s market in 2017. Existing-home sales next year are expected to grow about 2% to 5.46 million homes, helped by millennial first …
What I Learned From Buying A Tiny Home
When you think about buying a home, you probably don’t envision a house that’s 120 square feet. In fact, the average person probably imagines a house that is many times that size. But for some, owning (and oftentimes building) a tiny home is the ideal …
Why You Need a REALTOR® When Buying New Construction
You’re on a mission to buy a newly built home. Or maybe you plan on working with a builder to design your new dream home on your own. You’re on a mission to buy a newly built home. Or maybe you plan on working with a builder to design your new dream home …
You’re Buying a Home. Have You Considered Climate Change?
So you want to buy a home in a global warming zone. Wait, you weren’t thinking of it that way? You didn’t even realize it or think to check? Well, it’s time to adjust your outlook. That was my conclusion, at least, after reading my colleague Ian …
Here’s the salary you must earn to buy a home in these 8 major Indian cities
Buying your dream house can be considered as one of the biggest achievements as people save and invest their entire lives to buy a property of their own. Investing in a residential property is a different ballgame altogether as it involves a lot of hard …