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Mortgage Basics
Staging Your Home to Sell: Showcasing Its Best Features
Although selling a house may be a difficult and stressful process, the correct planning and strategy can go...
Making Repairs and Updates to Prepare Your Home for Sale
It may be both exhilarating and difficult to sell a house. Improvements and repairs are just a few of the...
Preparing Your Home for Sale: Cleaning and Decluttering for Maximum Impact
Before listing your house for sale, cleaning and decluttering it may significantly affect its saleability...
Closing the Loan: Final Steps in the Refinancing Process
For homeowners, the closing stages of the refinancing process may be both thrilling and terrifying. Since...
Editor’s Picks
The Risks and Benefits of Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
An adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) is a loan with a variable interest rate. This kind of loan is intended to offer...
Understanding the Pros and Cons of Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
Borrowers have a range of alternatives when it comes to selecting a mortgage. A standard option is an adjustable-rate...
The Pros and Cons of Fixed-Rate Mortgages: Stable Payments vs. Lack of Flexibility
An interest rate on a fixed-rate mortgage stays the same for the duration of the loan, which is normally between 10...
Fixed-Rate Mortgages: The Pros and Cons of a Stable Monthly Payment
The kind of interest rate that works best for you will be one of the most important choices when selecting a mortgage....
Latest Articles
Mortgage Originations, Servicing Up at Homebridge
As quarterly mortgage production moved higher at Homebridge Financial Services Inc., so did the...
NE Plunge Drives New US Home Sales to 9-Month Low
With the sale of new homes in the Northeast sinking by more than half on a month-over- month...
12-Year Low for Mortgage Delinquency
The rate of 30-day delinquency, excluding foreclosures, retreated to the lowest level in a dozen...
CFPB Chief Nominee Approved by Senate Committee
Now that White House aide Kathy Kraninger has received the blessing of the Senate Banking...
NE Leads Existing Home Sales Lower
Existing home sales fell to the slowest monthly pace in at least two years, with the Northeast...
Mortgage Apps Up as Refi Share Widest in 5 Months
Applications for loans secured by single-family properties turned higher last week as refinance...
Higher Home Lending Limited to Best Borrowers
While mortgage originations have recently been higher, the loans are primarily being made to just...
Freddie Securitizing Re-Performing Mortgages
More than a billion dollars in single-family loans that were previously non-performing are being...