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Cooling Inflation Bodes Well for Mortgage Rates Going Forward

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its inflation data, and it showed that the October Consumer Price Index (CPI) was flat for the…

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Mortgage Applications Reach Five-Week High

According to The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), mortgage applications increased last week as mortgage interest rates continued to fall…

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Mortgage Rate Improvement

Over the last few weeks, we have seen interest rates decline slightly. What has been the catalyst to help rates improve? Let’s take a quick…

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Homes Continue To Appreciate

The Case Shiller Home Price Index, which is seen as the most accurate gauge of home appreciation, showed that home prices rose 0.9% for the…

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Inflation and Interest Rates

The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its Inflation report on Friday called Personal Consumption Expenditures or PCE. This is also the Fe…

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Tight Inventory Hurts Sales

The National Association of Realtors released their Existing Home Sales report for the month of September, and it showed that Existing Home…

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Inflation and The Fed

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its Consumer Price Index which is a leading gauge of Inflation in the U.S. This report showed that h…

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Inflation Trending Lower

The Bureau of Economic Analysis has recently released its inflation index called Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE). This index happens…

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Home Prices at Record Levels

The Case Shiller Home Price Index, which is one of the industry’s best gauges of home price appreciation, showed that home prices rose 0.6%…

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Existing Home Sales Fall, But Not Because of Demand

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) released their Existing Home Sales report for the month of August, and it showed that sales dropp…

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Inflation Vacillating With a Silver Lining in The Core

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for the month of August. The report showed that overall inflat…

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Do Mortgage Discount Points Make Sense?

What does paying discounts points mean? Paying a discount point means you are prepaying your interest up front on your mortgage. You are bas…

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