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Financial Update - Interest Rates are Creeping Lower

For anyone considering buying a new home or condo, the time is now to pay closer attention. Interest rates - or the cost of money - have moved sharply lower in the past few weeks, and may continue to do so. As interest r...

Mortgage Insurance: Is it worth it?

For many first time home buyers, a dilemma comes up: is mortgage insurance worth it? And why is it even necessary?  What is mortgage insurance, anyways? Typically, until a person has about 22% equity in a home, mortgage companie...

Maybe We Do Have Kings Here After All

A few other bloggers have already used this infamous line, so I'm really stealing it here. But given the circumstances, it's so good and no other phrase can sum up what we've witnessed as a nation and electorate the past few w...

Major retailers are lowering prices (finally)

It could be a head fake but I am starting to think we are about to witness a pretty large move across financial markets, in general. We were in kind of a range trade or maybe even worse as it looked like markets were headed fo...

Sometimes you gotta look past the headlines

Sometimes you gotta look past the headlines. When peering across college campuses these days you see two very different themes percolating near the top. One are the ever-increasing numbers of protests; and the other is the endless a...

Why Owning a Home Feels Like a Dream Out of Reach for Younger Americans

Many people in the United States who don’t own homes are losing hope that they’ll ever be able to afford one. A survey from Northwestern Mutual, a life insurance company, found that over hal...

Plans to Make Affordable Homes Energy-Efficient Put on Hold by Federal Agency

Earlier in the year, two apartment buildings in Chicago, home mostly to elderly people with lower incomes, were about to get a significant makeover to save energy.  The idea was to use a m...

Los Angeles Housing Authority Pauses New Section 8 Applications Amid Funding Uncertainties

The Housing Authority in Los Angeles is not taking new applications for its Section 8 housing voucher program for now. This decision affects around 3,300 families who were hoping to g...

House Down Payments Are Getting Bigger, Now Averaging Over $63,000

Buying a house is becoming more expensive, not just because of the price tags on homes, but also because the initial payment you make, known as the down payment, is going up. That's the chunk of money bu...


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