A lot of first-time buyers in North Carolina and South Carolina hit a wall during the mortgage pre-approval process. The lender tells them the monthly payment is too high. They cannot quite qualify for the home they want. And they walk away thinking homeownership is out of reach โ€” at ...

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For more than a decade, the all-white kitchen was the safe answer. White cabinets. White subway tile. White countertops. It was photographed well. It appealed to a wide range of buyers. And if you were selling a home, it felt like the lowest-risk investment you could make. That era is ...

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Ask any experienced real estate professional in the Carolinas where the most consistently in-demand market in North Carolina is โ€” and the answer almost always comes back to the same place. South Charlotte. Specifically, the Ballantyne area. It is not just one thing that makes this area stand out. It ...

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Something has changed about what buyers are looking for in a home โ€” and it goes well beyond granite countertops and open floor plans. More and more buyers today are walking into a house and asking a question that was not on many people’s lists five years ago: Does this ...

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If youโ€™re thinking about selling your home, youโ€™ve probably heard the term โ€œmonths of supplyโ€ thrown around. But what does it actually mean? Months of supply measures how long it would take to sell all available homes at the current sales pace. Itโ€™s one of the clearest indicators of whether ...

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If you have watched your stock portfolio go up and down โ€” and sometimes way down โ€” you have probably asked yourself whether there is a better way to build wealth. Real estate investing is one of the oldest and most proven answers to that question. And in North Carolina ...

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