Helping Clients Find the Perfect Home
Monday, September 06
In the real estate industry, it would stand to reason that people would think that it's the agents' job to help clients find the perfect home and that mortgage brokers should only be invested in helping them find the right financing for that dream home. Yet how many of us have heard the...
It’s a Buyer’s Market: So Where are They?
Tuesday, August 31
It’s easy to assume that since the current housing market is indeed a buyer’s market, then these buyers would be crawling out of the woodwork, seeking every opportunity to invest, to buy up real estate, and to add to their own personal wealth. Yet even with mortgage rates at all-time lows and...
Home Prices Inching Up – A Trend or Temporary?
Friday, August 27
Average home prices in the second quarter of 2010 have shown that across the board, and across the country, on average, home prices are trending higher. Of course, there is reason to feel optimistic, and many reasons to hope for that level of optimism, but before jumping on the proverbial wag...
Federal Reserve Bank President Urges Regulatory Reform Legislation
Monday, August 16
James Bullard, the Federal Reserve Bank president noted that the Obama administration’s proposed legislation to overall the United States’ financial rules doesn’t do enough to revamp a system that helped drive the recent housing crisis and urged Washington not to miss an opportunity to pass...
The Renting Shift
Friday, August 13
For years, many people looked to their monthly expenses –and more acutely, their rent- as wasted money. These people had a difficult time justifying spending one thousand dollars a month, and oftentimes more, on rent when they could be spending that money on a mortgage and working toward full...
Homeowners Are Now Cashing-In When Refinancing, Rather Than Cashing-Out
Tuesday, July 27
For the better part of the past two decades, and even more so in the current decade, homeowners have opted to cash-out when they refinanced their mortgages. It was the basic principle of piling on more debt because, in general, the idea was that the real estate market was strong and that th...