California home sale prices came close to a 4-year high in July, with the pace of sales year-over-year growing for the fourth month in a row, the California Association of REALTORS® reported.
The median home price in July for an existing single-family home was $333,860 last month, up 4.2 percent from $320,540 in June and nearly 13 percent from a year ago, when the median home price in California was $296,160.
Here’s a great article recently article by the National Association of REALTORS:
When a lender says you don’t qualify for a mortgage refinance, you may be able to fix what’s wrong or find another lender willing to step up.
The five things that most often stop a refinance from going through:
You can overcome some of those five issues fairly quickly, but others will take time.
Homeowners who fall behind on their mortgage payments are more likely to seek help from loved ones than from mortgage relief agencies, according to a recent survey by Money Management International. Half of homeowners surveyed say they would first seek help from family and friends before talking with their lender (26%) or seeking assistance from a housing counseling agency or mortgage relief program (13%). More than half (53%) say they are concerned about possible scams and fraudulent practices by mortgage assistance agencies, that the services they offer would cost more money than they could afford (51%) and that the process would be confusing or they would choose a solution they don’t fully understand (45%).
According to a recent report by Lending Tree, the average down payment on a home is 12.29%. However, buyers in some states are putting down even more money for their home purchases. In New Jersey, buyers made average down payments of 13.71%. Meanwhile, buyers in North Dakota put down an average 11.34%, the lowest in the country.