When you’re shopping for a home, you might not be able to tell your chances of buying the home from the listing. That’s because properties have different listing statuses that are on a spectrum from ...

Throughout the home buying process, you face numerous decisions, including which contingencies to add to your home purchase contract. Contingencies are basically clauses or stipulations in a real ...

A buyer can back out of a home purchase even after signing a contract if all agreed-upon contingencies are not met. Common reasons for buyers to back out include issues revealed during a home ...

Buying a home or investing in real estate is a powerful way to build equity and long-term wealth. If you've ever considered buying a home, you've probably heard the term contingencies. And while ...

If you’re buying a house, it’s important to understand the difference between these two types of sales. Both contingent and pending mean a property is under contract, but each status signals a ...

The biggest, most perplexing challenge for many equity-rich California home sellers is fear they are walking away from a low fixed rate mortgage and low property taxes and then buying into the abyss.

One in eight home sales in the D.C. region that went under contract in January was canceled. Nationwide, 14% of contracts fell through, the highest rate of cancellations for a January since at least ...