February 4, 2011 (Shirley Allen) Not only is your home probably the largest purchase you’ll ever make, the amount of paperwork involved with the purchase of your home is enough to make an environmentalist cringe! The main reasons to keep your documents are for future reference, meaning for your own review, or in the event [...]
February 4, 2011 (Jeff Alan) Housing discrimination based on your race, color, national origin, religion, sex, family status, disability, or sexual orientation is illegal by federal law. If you have been trying to buy or rent a home or apartment and you believe your rights have been violated, you can file a fair housing complaint. [...]
February 4, 2011 (Chris Moore) As a military veteran, you’ve earned and deserve this benefit of military service. VA mortgage loans are the last traditional mortgage loan program to offer 100% financing and refinancing on mortgages and have the most flexible credit guidelines available. But even though the program has amazing things to offer, many [...]
February 3, 2011 (Chris Moore) Freddie Mac today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®) which shows mixed results in both long- and short-term rates this week. Read more...
February 3, 2011 (Chris Moore) The U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury have jointly released the January edition of the Obama Administration's Housing Scorecard and if we were playing a round of golf with the President, at the very least we’d have to say we shot [...]
February 3, 2011 (Chris Moore) No matter which side of the fence you sit on when it comes to who you want to blame for the whole housing crisis and no matter how many bank foreclosure horror stories you hear of or read about, there’s one thing you can’t deny, bank mortgage loan modifications outnumber [...]
February 3, 2011 (Jeff Alan) Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, has raised questions with U.S. banking regulators over a provision in the Dodd-Frank Finance Reform Bill that could potentially make it difficult for consumers to get home loans. Read more...
February 2, 2011 (Shirley Allen) According to the data collected on February 1, 2010, for LendingTree’s Weekly Mortgage Rate Pulse, average home loan rates offered by network lenders were 5.05 percent (5.33% APR) for 30-year fixed mortgages, the same as the week before, 4.30 percent (4.75% APR) for 15-year fixed mortgages, which was up slightly [...]
February 2, 2011 (Chris Moore) The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending January 28, 2011. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 11.3 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from last week. Read more...
