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ALTA: Protecting property rights with title insurance

Housing Wire

For a home valued at $250,000, the cost of an owner’s title insurance policy would be just 11 cents a day on a 30-year mortgage. nationally since 2004 and roughly 5% the past two years, based on the most recent industry data from 2021. Recently, an attorney shared with me how one of her clients purchased a home in Connecticut.

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HOUSING ‘TRIFECT’ PUTTING SQUEEZE ON BUYERS

Will Springer Realtor

All this, while we prepare to experience in a few years the largest wave of potential home-purchase demand in our nation’s history. As the chart shows, a historically large segment of Millennials is inching toward 36, the median age of a first-time home buyer in the U.S. income can qualify for financing on a median-priced home.

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Ready to Buy in Orange County? These Are the Cities You Can Afford

Realvals

Skycrest Newport Coast $13,800,000 12000/SEE 2004 0.61/26,588. For attached properties, the majority of the averages are between $400,000 and $500,000, which gives buyers in that price range plenty of options. Orange County home values continue to rise with no signs of slowing down anytime soon.