Our Blog How to: Lower Your Energy Bill In the age of technology we like to be plugged in 24/7 but that may not be so good for our home or our energy bill. When we turn off gadgets and gizmos they are still using power and sucking … Read More Tags: energy efficiency, Energy Saving, Go Green, Green Conscious, green homes, green lifestyle, Green Practices, Homeowner, How-To, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Home Improvement, Homeowner, How to, Real Estate Tips Resource Video: Buyer and Seller Edition The Difference Between a Listing and Selling Agent In most real estate transactions, there is one agent who represents the seller and another who represents the buyer. This informational video provides key points on the differences are between the two … Read More Tags: Buying, buying a home, Listing Agent, Resource Video, Sales Associates, Selling, selling a home, Selling Agent, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Home Selling, Homeowner, How to, Real Estate Tips, Resource Video Resource Video: Buyer and Seller Edition Transferring Utilities Whether you are a buyer or a seller, transferring utilities should be at the top of your “to do list” to avoid any interruption of services such as gas, electric and water. This informational video provides key points … Read More Tags: buying a home, Resource Video, selling a home, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors, Transferring Utilities, Utility Transfer Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Home Selling, Homeowner, How to Calling All Sellers! Why does the market sway between a buyer’s market and a seller’s market? The price of any item is determined by the supply of that item, as well as the market demand. The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) surveys “over 50,000 real estate … Read More Tags: Buyers, Buyers Demand, first time home buyer, First Time Home Seller, Keeping Current Matter, National Association of Realtors, Sellers, Selling My Home, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors, Wisconsin Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Home Selling, Homeowner, How to, Mortgage, Real Estate Tips Want to Buy or Sell a Home? Now is the Time! 2016 was the year of low mortgage rate and also low inventory. The average for the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 3.65% which is the lowest annual average ever recorded by Freddie Mac going back to 1971. Since then mortgage rates … Read More Tags: Buying, Equity, first time home buyer, First Time Home Seller, keeping current matters, Quarterly Newsletter, real estate market, Selling, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Home Selling, Homeowner, How to, Mortgage, Quarterly Newsletter, Real Estate News, Real Estate Tips Where Are All of the First Time Buyers? Many first-time home buyers are Millennials, but we are seeing a large part of this generation hesitating to make the leap into homeownership. Which begs the question, why the hesitation? Recent surveys have uncovered that potential buyers believe that you … Read More Tags: FHA Mortgage, first time home buyer, John Inzeo, millennial, Millennial Buyer, Mortgage, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors, Wisconsin Mortgage Corporation Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, How to, Mortgage, Quarterly Newsletter, Real Estate News, Real Estate Tips County-by-County Real Estate Data, January 2017 Learn what’s happening in your market area by clicking on your county link. You’ll find helpful information, including a year-to-year and quarterly comparisons of new listings, closed sales, median sales price, active listings and months of inventory. Jump to: Brown … Read More Tags: Brown County, Dodge County, Jefferson County, Kenosha County, milwaukee county, Ozaukee County, Quarterly Newsletter, Racine County, rock county, Sheboygan County, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors, Walworth County, Washington County, Waukesha County Categories: Community, First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Home Selling, Homeowner, Neighborhoods, Quarterly Newsletter, Real Estate News, Real Estate Tips, Shorewest News Resource Video: Buyer Edition What is a Mortgage Gift Letter? Saving enough money to use as a down payment to purchase a home is no easy task, especially if you are buying for the first time. 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As part of the lending process, a title search is typically required as well as a title insurance policy. This is done to protect buyers and lenders from anything that could prevent the titleholder from selling … Read More Tags: Buyers, Heritage Title Services, Information, Lenders, Lending Process, Resource Video, Sellers, shorewest, shorewest family, Shorewest Realtors, Title Insurance, Title Insurance Policy, Title Issues, Title Search, Titleholder Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Homeowner, How to, Real Estate Tips, Resource Video Page 11 of 36« First‹ Previous789101112131415Next ›Last »