Relocate America - Search for the top 100 places to live or browse cities and towns to learn about new areas.
Yahoo! Real Estate - Search for neighborhoods by street or zip code to find demographic information.
Tips for Homebuyers
Home Buyers Information Center - Information from choosing a realtor, finding homes for sale, mortagages, loans, and home buying.
Home Buying Guide - From the Fannie Mae Foundation, a site with brochures on credit, home buying, mortgages, and loans. Brochures are available in different languages. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to open.
Homepath - Home buying information from Fannie Mae. Includes information on finding a mortgage and lender.
All the Listings - A database of over 10,000 homes for sale by owner.
For Sale By Owner - A database of homes for sale without a real estate agent.
Homefair.com - Home listings, articles about moving, and homebuyer information.
Homestore.com - Listings of houses for sale, moving information, and more.
Realtor.com - A large database of current home listings.
Loans and Mortgages
Bankrate.com - Rates for mortgages, credit cards, car loans, and bank accounts collected from over 4000 financial institutions.
BanxCorp - A site that provides current mortgage rates.
Current Mortgage Information and Rates - Find current interest rates and mortgage information from HSH Associates, "the nation's largest publisher of consumer loan information".
Don't be a Victim of Loan Fraud - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides information to protect home buyers from predatory lenders.
Looking for the Best Mortgage - Information on finding a lender, legal information, and mortgages from the Federal Reserve Board.
Mortgage Calculator - An online calculator to help you find out how much interest and principal you will pay for your mortgage.
Ginne Mae - "Ginnie Mae was created in 1968 as a wholly owned corporation within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD.) Its purpose was - and is - to serve low-to moderate-income homebuyers."
HUD - The site for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Public Records Online - Contains links to the tax assessor's offices in the US. Obtain tax information, copies of deeds, ownership information, and more.
Selling a Home - Tips from the Federal Consumer Information Center.
Real Estate Books at the Pollard Memorial Library
The American Bar Association guide to home ownership:
the complete and easy guide to all the law every home owner should
know - 349.73 AME
Anosike, Benji O. How to buy/sell your own home without
a broker or lawyer: the national home sale and purchase kit: usable in all
50 states - 346.7304 ANO
Anosike, Benji O. The national home mortgage
qualification kit: how to qualify for and obtain your mortgage money 99% of
the time - 332.722 ANO
Anosike, Benji O. The national home mortgage reduction
kit: how to cut your mortgage in half & own your home free and clearn in
just a few, short years - 332.722 ANO
Becker, Norman. The complete book of home
inspection - 643.12 BEC
Boyd, Patricia. How to buy & sell your home without
getting ripped off! - 643.12 BOY
Fields, Alan. Your new house: the alert consumer's
guide to buying and building a quality home - 643.12 FIE
Glink, Ilyce R. 50 simple steps you can take to sell
your home faster and for more money in any market - 333.3383 GLI
Glink, Ilyce R. 10 steps to home ownership: a workbook
for first time buyers - 643.12 GLI
Glink, Ilyce R. 100 questions every first-time home
buyer should ask: with answers from top brokers from around the
country - 643.12 GLI
Irwin, Robert. Buy your first home! - 643.12 IRW
Irwin, Robert. Como comprar bien tu casa -
Spanish 643.12 IRW
Irwin, Robert. Robert Irwin's power tips for selling a
house for more - 333.3383 IRW
Janik, Carolyn. Kiplinger's home-ology: how to be sure
the house you buy is the home you really want - 643.12 JAN
Miller, Peter G. The common-sense mortgage: how to cut
the cost of home owndership by $50,000 or more - 332.722 MIL
Myers, Kevin C. Buy it, fix it sell it:
profit! - 332.6324 MYE
The new homeowner's handbook: what to do after you move
in - 643.12 NEW
Shenkman, Martin M. How to buy a house with no (or
little) money down - 333.338 SHE
Sindell, Kathleen. The unofficial guide to buying a
home online - 643.12 SIN
Sperling, Bert. Cities ranked & rated: more than 400 metropolitan areas evaluated in the U.S. and Canada - Ref 917.104 SPE
Summers, Diana Brodman. How to buy your first
home - 643.12 SUM
Tyson, Eric. Home buying for dummies - 643.12
TYS
Warda, Mark. Homeowner's rights: a legal guide to your
neighborhood - 346.0432 WAR