by Jim Crowder | Feb 1, 2013 | HOUSING MARKET
Thirty-year, fixed-rate mortgages reached 3.35%, jumping .11% from last week. Additionally, fifteen-year fixed-rate mortgages increased to 2.8% from the previous week, ending January with a .10% elevation. Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac’s vice president and chief...
by Jim Crowder | Jan 31, 2013 | HOUSING MARKET
The housing market maintains a promising future as monthly, and annual growth continues. Housing starts in 2012 were 28.1% higher than housing starts in 2011. Analysts found that as 2012 came to an end, housing starts gained strength. The majority of housing starts...
by Jim Crowder | Jan 30, 2013 | HOUSING MARKET
The foreclosure crisis has come to an end according to Daren Blomquist, vice president of RealtyTrac and speaker at the 2013 REOCON Summit and Expo held in Dallas, Texas. Blomquist commented on REO starts and completions saying that approximately 10 million REO starts...
by Jim Crowder | Jan 29, 2013 | HOUSING MARKET
Last month’s pending home sales fell 4.3% to 101.7, and holds the potential to repeat the same results again this month. Still, economists expect the housing market to gain momentum once more, sustaining growth and stimulating the economy’s progress...
by Jim Crowder | Jan 28, 2013 | HOUSING MARKET
According to the 2013 Alumni Perspectives Survey from the Graduate Management Admission Council, 92% of 2012 business and management graduates became employed soon after graduation, a number that has increased 6% from the previous year. Jonathan Masland, co-director...
by Jim Crowder | Jan 25, 2013 | HOUSING MARKET
The U.S housing market is helping to build a more stable economy according to Fannie Mae. Chief Economist Doug Duncan at Fannie Mae said, “as fiscal policy debates subside later in the spring, we expect to see some upward trend in economic activity, with...
