by Jim Crowder | Dec 7, 2015 | GENERAL
This is always a tricky topic, and we’ve even seen a series of articles recently suggesting that one should never pay off their mortgage — that having a large, long mortgage is nearly always the most sound financial decision. That seems a bit of a stretch,...
by Jim Crowder | Dec 4, 2015 | GENERAL
We’ve reported quite a few times this year on the strength of new housing starts, and with today’s job report, that doesn’t look set to change anytime soon. So, in honor of all the new homes being built, we thought it was worth taking a look at the...
by Jim Crowder | Dec 3, 2015 | GENERAL
As much as I’ve been blogging about the successful recovery in the housing market, and as much as delinquency rates have gone down, CNN Money correctly points out that there’s one area of the housing market that, while better, is still weighing down the...
by Jim Crowder | Dec 2, 2015 | GENERAL
This is such big news today that we can’t even find the original source — it’s literally all over the Internet — so we’ll just take this one from Detroit. The original cord cutters have reached a threshold. People canceling cable TV...
by Jim Crowder | Dec 1, 2015 | GENERAL
For some context, in 2009 jumbo loans accounted for 5.5% of the market. Contrast that with this year, through September, where they’re accounting for almost 19% of the market — the highest level since 2006 (though still not quite to the peak of 2000). Why...
by Jim Crowder | Nov 30, 2015 | GENERAL
There was a while there where covering mortgage rates got (depending on your perspective) highly entertaining or highly nerve-wracking, as the news flip-flopped every day. Well, mortgage rates and the housing market all seem reasonably stable at the moment, but one of...
