How digital staging can help your home listing pop
Sprucing up a room through photo editing can make a home listing more appealing to buyers
3 min read
Aug 20, 2021
Zach Wichter
Former Mortgage reporter, Homes
EXPERTISE
- Mortgages
- Real estate
- Home renovations
- Condos and co-ops
- Aviation
EDUCATION
- Bachelor of Science in Journalism, Northwestern University
The key to getting the best deal on a mortgage is shopping around with multiple lenders. If you don't, you could wind up paying thousands of dollars unnecessarily.
— Zach Wichter
About the author
Zach Wichter is a former mortgage reporter at Bankrate. He previously worked on the Business desk at The New York Times where he won a Loeb Award for breaking news, and covered aviation for The Points Guy. He also worked in production on Dateline NBC and wrote anchor copy for New York 1. He graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism in 2013. As president of his co-op board in Queens (it’s like a condo board, but more New York-y), Zach is constantly thinking about real estate and dealing with issues of homeownership, HOA-style house rules and mortgage eligibility.
Highlights
Wichter came to the mortgage beat at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when home financing and the real estate industries were rare bright spots in an otherwise sluggish economy. He got to work looking under the hood of trends in the headlines, and by analyzing address forwarding data from the U.S. Postal Service, learned that the pandemic wasn't the end of cities after all. He also focuses on racial equity issues in the housing market.
Experience
Although Bankrate is the first place Wichter covered the mortgage and real estate verticals full-time, he's an experienced business reporter with a broad range of experience. In addition to covering aviation at The Times, he had a weekly column that highlighted commercial real estate transactions in New York City, and covered all kinds of stories as a general assignment business reporter.
In the media
The key to getting the best deal on a mortgage is shopping around with multiple lenders. If you don't, you could wind up paying thousands of dollars unnecessarily.
— Zach Wichter
Zach's latest articles
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How homebuyers can compete in a strong seller’s market
With housing inventory still lagging, sellers continue to have the upper hand.
4 min read Jul 22, 2021 -
How renovations done without permits can affect a home sale
Renovations done without the right permits can complicate real estate transactions, sometimes derail a sale.
4 min read Jul 16, 2021 -
Could 3D printing be the future of homebuilding? See this demo house
This model 3D-printed home looks unassuming, but it’s a big step forward in building tech.
4 min read Jul 02, 2021 -
Nearly two-thirds of millennials have homebuyer regrets, survey finds
In a frenzied market, it’s all too easy for buyers to have regrets. Here’s what our survey found.
6 min read May 17, 2021 -
How the home appraisal gap makes homeownership more difficult and costly for Black families
Black families are more likely to live in undervalued properties. That’s one factor that keeps the housing market inequitable.
5 min read Mar 23, 2021 -
IRS will extend 2020 income tax filing deadline to May 17
It is the second year in a row that filings have been extended for taxpayers.
1 min read Mar 17, 2021 -
How the legacy of environmental racism continues to shape housing in America
Environmental justice advocates are hopeful that the Biden administration will address systemic inequality in housing.
5 min read Mar 04, 2021