First Time Homebuyers

Resolved to Become a Homeowner? Let’s Open The Door to Some Great Open Houses This Weekend

By Joy Donovan / January 11, 2024 /

While it’s still early in 2024, some of us haven’t even broken our New Year’s resolutions yet. Others — ahem — haven’t even started trying. Technically, that means they’re not broken, right? For some, the New Year’s promise to oneself was to become a homeowner in 2024. Big decision for sure, but ponder these reasons…

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Home Buying Stress is Increasing, New Survey Suggests

By Daniel Lalley / January 20, 2022 /
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With the current inventory situation and the number of homes that are flying off the market as fast as Realtors can list them, is it any wonder that buyers are a little frazzled? Spoiler alert: They really, really are. (Also: Hang in there, guys!) HomeAdvisor published a survey with some eye-opening stats on the state…

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My First Remodel: Three Things a New Homeowner Learns When Updating Their Home

By Daniel Lalley / December 17, 2021 /

So, you just bought your first home. After months browsing Zillow, seeing houses, and writing offers, that perfect pad jumped out at you and you seized it. Congratulations, you’re a homeowner. You’re now officially in charge of an investment worth thousands of dollars, with appreciation potential as expansive as your imagination. You just have to…

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Local Market Cool Down? Research Indicates Wave of New Buyers Coming

By Bethany Erickson / May 13, 2019 /
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While the housing market might be lightly tapping the brakes as of late, a new report found that a wave of new buyers is coming — although how robustly they arrive will vary from city to city. While there was an impressive wave of first-time home buyers over the last decade, Zillow did the math…

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Late-Bloomers To Home Ownership, Couple Now Ready to Sell Oak Lawn Townhome

By Bethany Erickson / February 24, 2019 /
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When self-described “late-bloomers” Meltem Ballan and Nathen Hinson made their first foray into the Dallas real estate market when they bought their Oak Lawn townhome in 2013, it was almost as renters. “My husband and I are in our 40s,” Ballan said. “I studied too long to have a Ph.D., and never married until I…

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