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For home buyers it is a good time to push for lower closing costs which includes lending charges, local tax and transfer fees, and expenses for such things as title insurance, appraisal costs, and other third-party services. The rule of thumb used to be about 3 percent of the cost of the property.
According to Guy Cecala, publisher of industry newsletter Inside Mortgage Finance, Fees that buyers shouldn't have much trouble negotiating away include wire-transfer fees, loan application-processing fees, and high FedEx charges. Today, most buyers should be able to do better than that, added Guy Cecala.
Cary Pearce, production manager at Provident Bank Mortgage in Riverside, Calif says that it all boils down to what a lender will work for.
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It is a returning phase for New York's big-buck buyers as they retreat to Long Island's seashore getaway.
According to a report released by Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate the first-quarter home sales in the Hamptons were up 173 percent over the first quarter of 2009 and median sales prices rose 35 percent to $908,500 compared to the same time period last year. The report was released on Thursday.
Prudential Douglas Elliman said prices were higher closer to the Atlantic, rising 86 percent for homes south of Montauk Highway. This would run east west a few blocks from the shoreline.
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According to a survey of more than 1,500 real estate practitioners by Campbell/Inside Mortgage Finance, nearly half the homes sold in March were purchased by first-time buyers. This would come up to 48.2 percent.
Thomas Popik, research director for Campbell Surveys, said in a statement that many observers had felt that the pool of first time home buyers had been depleted last fall. "Instead, the normal spring-summer buying season is combining with the tax credit to produce blow-out results for first-time home buyers", he added.
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