Options may include the following: two-storey to duplex to split-level to bungalow.
These are personal preferences, of course. Seniors tend to want bungalows with fewer stairs. Families sometimes find a two-storey best: bedrooms up, everything else down.
Newcomers to mortgages sometimes find the terminology confusing. So what follows is Mortgage 1.0, a snapshot of the terms you’ll need to know when you go shopping for that first house.
Fixed-rate mortgage: the interest rate that will apply for the term of your mortgage
Term of mortgage: the length of time for which interest rates apply, not to be con...
One theory out there in the real estate world is that when you’re selling a house, you’re really selling a kitchen.
That’s how important kitchens can be.
So that’s why it can be important to renovate your kitchen before listing your home with an agent…”can be important” because it depends on the condition of your kitchen.
That’s a message kids often hear. People selling homes could hear it, too.
Closets are for storage. They’re also for things you don’t particularly want people to see, sometimes especially if they’re people interested in buying your house.
You may think that somebody looking at your house won’t look in your closets. Think again. T...
If you’re a newbie when it comes to buying a home, the first thing you’re likely to do is find a realtor, for expertise and help in navigating a purchase.
Here are some of the questions you can expect the realtor to ask when you meet for the first time, so that the realtor can put together a list of homes for you to see, and determine if the governm...