If ever there was an obvious headline, the one above is it. The housing industry is in trouble, and it doesn’t look like there’s going to be a fix any time soon. So what’s going on? We’ll start with the news that existing home sales are at their lowest level in 15 years, down 27% [...]
There is a post on a blog called New Homes Section, Illinois, titled 5 Things To Know About Buying A House. It’s a pretty good article if I say so myself, but I think there are more things to add to this list, which I’m going to do now. 1. Don’t get pushed into buying [...]
Mortgage rates vary depending on the type of loan you obtain and for how long you are borrowing it. The rate also differs from one lender to another. When you plan to obtain a home loan, you must shop around and compare the monthly mortgage payments and total interest on different loans with the help [...]
An article on the Wall Street Journal website titled Debt-Cutting Will Slow Global Growth prophesized that debt cutting efforts by the United States and other countries, and by all the consumers, will slow economic growth for many years, which wouldn’t be a good thing for most economies. It’s an interesting premise, and it makes a [...]
It seems it’s not enough that black people are having it rougher than anyone else when it comes to unemployment. Now it seems that black and Hispanics are both having a tough go of it when it comes to getting fair mortgage rates. A Federal Reserve report came out showing that 54.7% of black borrowers [...]

