Posts from October 2017

With fall settling in all around the Roanoke Valley and winter just on the horizon, many potential buyers are asking themselves whether they should buy now or wait until the new year. After all, the next couple of months are a busy time for everyone. Adding a home purchase on top of it all might be more than you want to take on.

Even so, there are good reasons to stay in the market and buy a house before the end of the year. So before you hang up your house-hunting hat, consider these advantages to buying now.

Mortgage rates are still low

After a surge in mortgage rates in late 2016/early 2017, rates on 30-year fixed mortgages largely trended downward until September. Now, they've started to inch upward again, as this graphic from lender FreddieMac shows....

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