Our Blog Time for an Increase in Short-Term Interest Rates? Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the U.S. Central Bank may raise short-term interest rates at its mid-December meeting, but emphasized no decision has yet been made. This headline from the Wall Street Journal says it all. When I’m asked … Read More Tags: dream home, shorewest, short-term interest rate, Wisconsin Mortgage Corporation Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Mortgage, Real Estate News Why Equity Matters It’s tempting to keep renting your residence because being a homeowner is perceived as being more expensive. But are you really saving by renting? Or are you actually costing yourself more in the long run? Recently, Freddie Mac wrote … Read More Tags: Equity, monday motivation, real estate questions, shorewest, shorewest family, Wisconsin Mortgage Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Home Selling, Mortgage, Real Estate News Growing Through The Years Throwback to the way home searching used to be! Some Shorewest agents and consumers remember paging through the huge binder of homes, hoping to find the right one. Other Shorewest agents remember when we were still Wauwatosa Realty Company, … Read More Tags: Home Buying, Home Selling, Shorewest Realtors, TBT Categories: Home Buying, Home Selling, Mortgage, Neighborhoods, Real Estate News How Much Home Should You Buy? Buying a home is one of the biggest purchases in your life — knowing exactly how much home to purchase can be complicated. To choose the right home, you have to try to see as far into the future as possible and … Read More Categories: Mortgage Six Tips To Save To Buy A House As interest rates are still low, the real estate market offers lots of opportunities to become a homeowner. However, what’s holding many people back is saving enough for a down payment. If you analyze your spending habits, you can determine … Read More Tags: Buying a House, Credit Card, down payment, first time home buyer, How-To, Mortgage, saving money, Shorewest Realtors, Shorewest Shares, shorewest tips Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, How to, Monday Motivation, Mortgage, Real Estate Tips, Shorewest Tips Millennials, Did You Know This About Down Payments? Housing experts have done much research into why we don’t have more first-time home buyers entering the market. In looking at this issue, recent surveys of Millennials (the largest first-time home buyer pool in history) uncovered that 60% of these buyers believe … Read More Tags: Education, first time home buyer, Home Buyer, Housing Market, millennial, Millennial Buyer, Mortgage, shorewest family, Wisconsin Mortgage Corporation Categories: First Time Home Buyers, Home Buying, Homeowner, How to, Mortgage, Real Estate Tips Where Are All The First Time Buyers — A Letter from John Inzeo, Vice President, Wisconsin Mortgage Corporation Although we tend to label first-time home buyers as Millennials, we are seeing a variety of younger generations hesitating to make the leap into homeownership. Why the hesitation?! Recent surveys have uncovered an important incorrect perception that potential buyers have … Read More Categories: Mortgage John Inzeo Named President of Wisconsin Mortgage Bankers Association John Inzeo, Vice President of Wisconsin Mortgage Corporation, was recently named President of the Wisconsin Mortgage Bankers Association. The Wisconsin Mortgage Bankers Association is a state-wide organization dedicated to represent residential real estate. John Inzeo has been in the Mortgage … Read More Categories: Careers, Mortgage Wisconsin Mortgage Corporation Explains TRID Delay And What It Means To You Last week Thursday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a delay in the implementation of the new Truth-In-Lending Act/Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act Integrated Disclosure (TILA/RESPA Integrated Disclosure). The CFPB announced its plans to issue a proposed amendment to … Read More Categories: Mortgage Wisconsin Mortgage Corporation Recommends Student Loans and Mortgages — What Do They Mean? With the cost of college increasing, many students have to take out multiple loans to help them reach their goal. Student loan payments don’t begin until six months after graduation. But what happens if you want to buy a home … Read More Tags: buying a home, current housing market, Home Buying, homes for sale, Housing Market, living in milwaukee, Milwaukee, milwaukee lifestyle, real estate advice, shorewest, Shorewest Realtors, Wisconsin Mortgage Corporation Categories: Mortgage Page 9 of 13« First‹ Previous5678910111213Next ›Last »