Recent data shows homes sold for 99.4% of asking price, indicating strong buyer leverage. The sale-to-list ratio, calculated by dividing selling price by asking price, gauges negotiation power. A ...

One major factor lenders consider when reviewing your mortgage application is your debt-to-income ratio (DTI). Essentially, how much of your paycheck goes toward paying down debts. A lower DTI tells ...

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A simple technique, developed in Phillips (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, 1987), is used to approximate cov($\hat\theta_{MH}, \hat p_i$), i = 1, 2, where ...