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• Purpose of a Real Estate Appraisal

  A real estate appraisal is needed to determine the estimated market value of any type of real estate: house, condominium, commercial property, vacant land, etc. A real estate appraisal may be requested by a party considering purchasing, selling, insuring, or lending money on a house, condo, commercial property, or vacant lot. Appraisals are also used for tax purposes to estimate how much money a property owner has to pay in taxes for their real estate holding.

   

• Benefits of Energy Saving Home Improvements

  Energy efficient improvements not only make your home more comfortable, they yield long-term financial rewards. Such improvements can qualify you for an energy efficiency mortgage, which allows lenders to use a higher-than-normal debt-to-income ratio to calculate mortgage loan potential. In addition, your home will have a higher resale value.

   

• When Your Home's Value is Less Than the Mortgage

With the real estate market cooling off some people are finding themselves in an awkward situation. For the first time in years the value of their home is less than what they owe on their mortgage. Several things have contributed to this. First, home prices aren't increasing like they were the last few years and in come cases have even dropped. Second, specialty loan products like option ARMs and interest only loans have made it easy people to buy more home than they can afford. There is a solution.

• Applying for a Commercial Mortgage Loan

Whether you want to borrow working capital to expand your business or leverage equity in a commercial real estate venture, you will soon find out the commercial loan process is very different from the more common home mortgage process.

• Housing Trends

  1. Interest Rate Forecast
  2. Existing Home Sales
  3. Recent Appreciation
      

• Calculators        16 mortgage and real estate calculators

• Where Agents Can Get Links

We've updated our list of directories where agents can get links.  If you notice any sites were left out but should have been included, please let us know.  If there are sites we should dump, let us know that, too.

                        Dynamic Drive.com - A delightful site with some great java scripting to make your site look really professional!  You'll need to know how to insert code into your site, so if you do not, then skip this site.

• Real Estate Glossary

ABC's of Real Estate glossary for real estate and mortgage terms and definitions for home buyers, home sellers, and real estate consumers.

• Library of Tips & Articles

Real Estate and Mortgage Related Topics

• REALS.COM

A comprehensive Real Estate Directory.  A very good resource for anyone associated with the Real Estate Profession as well as a great resource for buyers and sellers!  

Agent's Toolkit (this page) are primarily of interest to licensees and webmasters.

Software Vendors

REAL ESTATE CLIPART DESIGNATIONS AND COMPANY LOGOS                     

These graphics are all copyrighted by their respective organizations. Professional REALTOR® Designations as well as the REALTORS®  logo must have been earned in order to be used on your site legally. 

• Designations (Clipart)

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