Editorial Guidelines
PreferredProperties.com is committed to providing accurate, useful, and unbiased information to home buyers, sellers, and anyone trying to understand the housing market. This page explains how our content is created, how we handle corrections, and how we maintain editorial independence.
Who Creates Our Content
Our content is produced by the PreferredProperties.com editorial team, led by founder Mark McFall. We are not licensed real estate agents, brokers, or financial advisors, and nothing on this site should be taken as personalized legal, financial, or real estate advice. We’re a media and education resource — for advice specific to your situation, we always recommend consulting a licensed professional.
What we can offer is research grounded in primary sources. When we write about mortgage rates, housing trends, or market conditions, we look to data from institutions like the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Census Bureau, and Fannie Mae — and we link to those sources so you can verify the numbers yourself.
How We Verify Information
Before publishing, we check that:
- Data points (rates, prices, statistics) are sourced from a named, verifiable institution or report
- Calculators and tools use standard, widely accepted formulas, and are tested for accuracy
- Directory listings reflect publicly available information about independently owned businesses, and are not edited at the request of any listed business in exchange for payment or favorable treatment
- Any claim that could meaningfully affect a reader’s financial decision is checked against at least one outside source
Editorial Independence and Affiliate Relationships
PreferredProperties.com is supported in part by affiliate partnerships — for example, links to mortgage lenders or financial service providers that may pay us a referral fee if you use them. We disclose these relationships clearly wherever they appear.
These partnerships do not influence what we write, how we rank or describe anything, or which directory listings appear on the site. A page’s content is the same whether or not an affiliate link appears on it. If we ever believe a partnership creates a conflict that could mislead readers, we’ll either remove the partnership or add additional disclosure — whichever resolves the conflict.
Corrections
We make mistakes sometimes, and when we do, we want to fix them. If you believe something on this site is inaccurate or out of date, please email us at Mark@preferredproperties.com with a link to the page and a description of the issue. We review every correction request and update the content if it’s warranted. For factual corrections, we don’t add a special “correction notice” to every page, but significant changes to data-driven articles are reflected in the “Updated” date shown on that article.
Learn More
For more on who we are and how this site came to be, see our About page.