Wall Street Journal (May 8, 2014 by, Nick Timiraos, “5 Takeaways on Fannie, Freddie Earnings” ): “Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are sending
Like the prodigal son, equity has returned home. For the past five years, as collapsing values wiped out trillions of dollars of home equity, one
Introduction. Armageddon? End Times? The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Lately, it appears that Mother Nature has been working overtime, what with floods, earthquakes, landslides,
In a recent Wall Street Journal article entitled “Mortgage Lenders Ease Rules for Home Buyers in Hunt for Business” by Nick Timiraos and Annamaria Andriotis,
A recent March 21 article by Wendy Culverwell of the Portland Business Journal [“Cover Story: Land squeeze stalls Portland homebuilders”] offers a sobering view of
Ever thought your lender had made an error, say failing to properly credit a payment, or levied an inappropriate charge? What can you do, and
A recent article in the online MReport Daily (“Underwriting Standards Ease as Banks Vie for Business”) repeats the same information I’ve been reading on many
OK, the numbers are in for calendar year 2013. In 3Q 2012, for the first time in five years, housing prices actually began to improve,
As the name implies, a “jumbo” loan is big one; it exceeds $417,000 in most parts of the country except Alaska and Hawaii. In Alaska
Ever wonder when the foreclosure crisis would wind down? That is an important issue, since “shadow inventory,” i.e. distressed homes not yet in the marketplace,
