Posts Tagged ‘First Time Home’

How a Mortgage Rate is Calculated

One of the most important parts of your mortgage is the mortgage rate – the rate of interest that you’ll pay on the money you borrow to buy your house. Often, ads for mortgage lenders make it sound as if they offer a single mortgage rate to all lenders. If that were the truth, it [...]

Mortgages Made Easy For First-Time Home Buyers

Understanding what mortgages are and how they work can be mystifying for first-time homebuyers faced with the need to get financing to purchase their first home. Technically, the type of mortgage that home buyers use to get a loan to purchase a home is a contractual instrument that gives the lender, known as the “mortgagee”, [...]

Three Common Misconceptions of Mortgage Brokers

Some first time home buyers opt to obtain a loan directly through their local bank branch rather than employing a mortgage broker. The reason why this may occur is because there a few misconceptions associated with the mortgage broker profession. In reality, mortgage brokers and their respective brokerages have come along way from the days [...]

Mortgage Broker : Translator, Negotiator, and Ally

Purchasing a home can be a confusing time for first time home buyers. In the game of the purchasing and selling of Real Estate there are 5 main players. The buyer, seller, their respective real estate agents, lender, and most importantly, the mortgage broker. A mortgage broker is more than just the individual who sets [...]

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