Month: August 2019

Over the last twelve years the mortgage industry has certainly been the subject of a lot of bad news and bad publicity. Yet through it […]

As Floridians watch “Storm Porn,” as the weather channel is called, Tennessee is buzzing about this Nashville Realtor’s marketing. (Warning: Rated a solid R.) The […]

Real estate agents, and lenders interested in joint ventures and “affinity programs,” are very interested in the Realogy news that the United Services Automobile Association […]

For readers who deny climate change is real, natural or manmade, sinking cities around the world (including Houston and New Orleans) can be attributed to […]

If Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War can go to the theater a hundred times, and if FDR during World War II can have a […]

Comp? Cyberattacks? Changes in underwriting philosophy? A look through my email inbox indicates they’re on folks’ minds this week. And let’s throw in some state-law […]

Japan’s government bonds could soon join Germany’s in having negative yields on all maturities. Japanese debt has gone negative out to 15 years, and buyers […]

Thank you to everyone who wrote yesterday correcting me that Hawai’i’s 1959 statehood is 60 years old and not 50. I know it’s not the […]

Congratulations to Hawaii which became a state sixty years ago today. We’ve had plenty of economic cycles, small and large, in fifty years, although in […]

Why is a 43% DTI, a line many view as “drawn in the sand,” so critical to the ability of a borrower to repay a […]