5 Common Property Title Problems, Buying a Home

Have you ever wondered why you need title insurance? Your home might be new to you, but every ...

Types of Title Insurance Policies

When you are ready to close your transaction and buy your new home, you will notice that there are two types of title insurance policies. This is because the home buying process typically involves buying both a loan policy and an owner's policy of ...

A third of the nation's households rent their residences, according to the 2010 U.S. Census Report, and that number rises as high as two-thirds in large metropolitan areas, such as New York and Los Angeles.

Given the steady demand for rental housing, it's no wonder that individuals ...

If ...

Have you forgotten something in figuring where you're going to retire to?

Let's see, you've researched which states tax Social Security income (only 14, including Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, North Dakota and Vermont).

And you've even consulted the numbers-crunchers at Bankrate.com to learn which states scored ...

4 Surprising Tips You Need to Know Before Buying or Selling a House?

And when it comes to buying or selling a house, it turns out some of the very best -- ones that can translate into big bucks -- are those maybe only someone with Brian Williams' imagination would think of ...

If people wanted their homes to look like all the others on the block, we wouldn't be so obsessed with "curb appeal."

Doesn't matter whether you're looking to sell -- the National Association of Realtors says 49 percent of all houses are bought based on that one factor ...

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That's the question on homeowners' minds as house prices just posted their largest annual gain since 2005 -- congrats to those no longer "underwater" on their mortgages -- even as interest rates remain tantalizingly low. But here's the catch: Those same higher prices can make buyers as choosy as a ...