It is fun to see that U.S. homebuilder confidence rose to a seven-month high, primarily driven by lower mortgage rates and an improving jobs market […]
Say what you will about Zillow (and people do), the firm does not fall short as a driver of information. As many in the industry […]
Plenty of money is merely paper, which the public trusts to be backed by the government. And counterfeiting is a problem. For something non-mortgage related […]
Guess what opened up on this date 100 years ago? No, it wasn’t the first Starbucks. The Panama Canal opened. Do you think the mortgage […]
Here’s a story for the guys in IT. In “the old days” hotel rooms actually had keys, and hotels didn’t have computers. But now most […]
“The Bureau found that Amerisave lured consumers by advertising misleading interest rates, locked them in with costly up-front fees, failed to honor its advertised rates, […]
Under the “misery loves company” category for those in the residential lending business, it is interesting to watch the media focus shift onto the payday […]
Most professional baseball teams still have 30+ games left in their season (out of 162), and there is plenty of jockeying in the media regarding […]
Willie Sutton, when asked why he robbed banks, supposedly replied “It’s where the money is.” And this week we had the Bank of America/Department of […]
For state specific news, we certainly hope folks in Hawaii weather the storms bearing down on them, but from Indiana we learn that Springleaf Finance […]
