As anyone who has bought a home knows, a mortgage payment has many different components that pay many different things—and these costs can be easily ignored, looked over, or just flat-out misunderstood by even the savviest buyers. Fannie Mae has released new research with the goal of revealing these costs, and through analysis, attempt to …
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Does the cost of homeowners insurance affect the price of a home? In some markets, the answer is increasingly yes. In recent years, insurance companies
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By now, most appraisers are aware that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (GSEs) have embarked on a complete overhaul of the Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD).
