Browsing: mortgage

This morning, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that pending home sales dropped 6.3% in April from a month earlier.They were also 2.5% lower than…

Long out of favor, adjustable-rate mortgages are quietly making a comeback.To be fair, they are still pretty fringe, but the 30-year fixed is beginning to lose…

Experts are weighing the future of mortgage rates and guarantee fees following the Trump administration’s strong yet mixed messaging on the future of Fannie Mae and…

A few months ago, Redfin proclaimed that a buyer’s market had finally arrived.It was the first time home sellers didn’t have the upper hand this decade,…

Fed chair Jerome Powell has had no shortage of critics, not least being President Donald Trump.A month ago, there were even rumblings of Trump looking to…

Today we’ll take a look at the top mortgage lenders in Ohio.Last year, nearly 900 mortgage companies originated about $42 billion in home loans there, a…

In most cases, couples purchasing a home do so together and share legal and financial responsibility for the mortgage. But when the relationship breaks down, both…

With so many calls for higher mortgage rates lately, now might be the perfect time to play contrarian.It’s something I like to do in general, but…

Seventy-four per cent of respondents now say they’re concerned about a looming recession, up sharply from 60% just a month earlier. And with affordability worsening, half…

One silver lining to elevated mortgage rates, other than the refinance opportunity later, has been a shifting psychology.A few years ago, I wrote that your brain…