A fixed-rate home mortgage has an interest rate that remains the same for the life of the mortgage.
That means, the monthly pricipal and interest payment will not change during the life of mortgage.
It has one single the same payment every month, what gives stability and predictability to plan for the monthly budget.
Here are some other blog posts that I have written already about the mortgage: what is a mortgage , Fannie Mae loan,and Freddie Mac loan.
A property deed ( or simply a deed ) is a legal document that includes information about who owns a particular piece of real estate.
It includes both – the previous owner’s name and the current owner’s name.
When real property is sold, the property deed is the legal document that transfers the ownership of real property from one person to another.
A title search in real estate is a process of researching of a real property history. It is done when a real property is being sold and getting a new owner.
The property buyer wants to investigate the history of a particular property by looking into legal records for any changes done, inconsitency and irregularities with the legal documents of the property. All the legal documents show events in the history of real estate.
All recorded documents regarding a specific real estate property are looked into to decide on the current condition of real estate title.
When buying a real property, a title search is done to answer three main questions regarding a real property :
Comparable sales is a term used in real estate when analyzing homes located in the same area, Those homes are very similar in size, condition and features as the comparable home. The term “comps” is also used.
Home – buyers should look at comparable sales when deciding what price to offer for a home they want to buy. Homeowners should use comps inorder to decide on a best price for home to sell.
There are 3 main things that are important in deciding on comparabes:
1. Location.
2. Timeframe.
3. Features.
Lets look at these in more details.
Location is the most important when analyzing homes and trying to decide on a home value. There is even saying “3 most important things about the house are : location, location, location“. I have wrote about the importance of location in my blog before. The real estate market is based on property location. The most effective way to analyze the property is to keep as close to the subject property as possible. It is the best to keep the comaprables and the subject properties within the same neighborhood .
If there are not enough comps near the subject home , it’s ok to look futher and expand out. But do not foeret to watch other boundaries, like a school district, and stay within it.
When looking at the comps that were recently sold, the best comparable sales are in the past three (3) months. Do not go back for more than six months, because it is older data is not reflective of the current market.
The best comparables are homes that are currently “pending.”. A pending home means that a buyer and seller made a deal. Just the final sale price is not known,because the home is not sold yet.
After finding the comparable homes in a particular location and getting comps from a recent timeframe, the most important is to look for homes with similar features as a subject home. It is important to look at the prices that homes were sold.
If comparing price per square feet, it will not consider other factors,like lake or golf views, a new designer kitchen, updated new bathrooms.
When comparing home features, it is very important to look for similarities. Let say, the subject home has all four bedrooms on the top floor, look for something similar. Its is very important number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms and totl square footage of the whole house. Also, the size of the lot is very important too. Check if the basement finnished or unfinished. It is possible to make adjustments in price for diffrences , when comparing homes.
The title in real estate are the legal rights of property ownership and they are protected and recognized by law. The ownership might be legal interest or equitable interest.
Those legal rights to real estate are many different ones – to own, to use, to posses, to control, to enjoy, dispose of real estate or interest in real estate.
The main real estate rights are possession and use.
That bundle of rights can be separated even more and held by different parties, for example, some of the real estate rights are:
In real estate, land and real property registration and recording gives public notice of ownership information.
Title evidence is proven through title report. This title report is written up by title insurance company, which show the history of title as determined by the recorded public record.
