Market Commentary – Tue, Jan 03
Market Commentary – Tue, Jan 03 – 10:34 AM ET The Bond markets are starting the New Year lower today after strong economic data from China and Germany and is helping to lift the Stock markets this morning. The S&P …
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Uncovering Hidden Treasures: Finding Stability in Unstable Times
My husband and I always operated under the premise that each house would be a stepping stone to the next bigger, better home. Our first house was purchased with an ARM loan, and we sold it about a year before the balloon payment was due. This house was never supposed to be our long-term home, but a stepping stone for a few years. We viewed buying and selling a house like trading cars, and it was often easier, in fact, than buying another car.
Mortgage Rates Improve on Debt Warning
SOLID Stays Informed: The Inside Edge from the Raleigh Mortgage Guy Mortgage Rates Improve on Debt Warning With little economic data, it was a relatively quiet week for mortgage rates. The biggest economic news was a surprise warning from a …
Mortgage Rates Improve on Inflation Data
While consumers certainly struggle with higher gas prices, longer-term inflation trends generally are more influenced by other factors such as wages and housing costs, which recently have been increasing very slowly.
Mortgage Rates Increase
Mortgage Rates Increase An improving economic outlook was unfavorable for mortgage rates this week. The Dow stock index reached a new high for the year, as investors shifted funds from bonds to stocks. Weaker than average demand for the 7-yr …
Gold, Guns or Real Estate?
Today’s historic low real estate prices in Raleigh North Carolina and the surrounding areas along with similarly low rates have made homeownership the best tool or hedge against inflation the average person can use to protect themselves from the imminent rising prices. If you have been waiting for the bottom, this loan officer is going on the record as saying THIS IS IT! Of course we will have no way of knowing that to be true until we look back six months from now and see that I was right, but by then it will be too late and you will have missed the best opportunity to have bought real estate in easily 30 or more years!
Markets Moved by Tsunami and Saudi Arabia
Remember, housing will likely be in a much better position in the second half of the year and at that time rates could be a bit higher. Now’s the time to take advantage of the combination of low rates and affordable housing.