Moving Day
Per Zillow, Oklahoma’s market is up. The average priced home is up 7.1% as of December 2020. Permits to build a new home, just in the Oklahoma City area, has grown 55.7% since the summer of 2019. The number of days that properties spend on the market has fallen to 14 days. by ALLISON ELDREDGE Is today moving day? In today’s real estate market, moving day is happening for many Americans and it is good for everyone. The stories I hear from local Oklahomans cover many aspects of home ownership. Selling a lifelong home for something smaller for the golden years, upgrading to a larger home to accommodate a growing family, remodels of the newly purchased home, remodels to the current home, looking for that new home and finding the market is moving fast, and finding the perfect place and being able to get it quickly are all happening every day in the lives of our family and friends. What should you do if you want to find your moving
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day? There are many resources to use for your advantage. HGTV.com lists their “10 Best-Kept Secrets for Buying a Home”. Nerdwallet.com gives a great list of “Tips for First-Time Home Buyers”. We’ve listed a few of those tips. Keep your money where it is. Don’t make any huge purchases up to six months before buying a new home. Improve your credit, if you can. Save extra finances that occur. Get Pre-Approved for your home loan. A pre-approval will get you into the house you want fast. Recently, my husband’s co-worker was planning on looking at a house after work. It had gone on the market the night
