Articles About Adjustable-rate Mortgages
- Author:
- Mike Ochs
- Posted:
- 12.06.2011
Home Delinquencies Fall; Foreclosures Rise
Fewer borrowers currently are delinquent on their home loans, a Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) report shows. Curiously, new foreclosures are rising in states like California. This is evidence that the nation still must endure significant pain before the housing crisis finally comes to an end. According to some analysts, the nation is only halfway through […]
- Author:
- Mike Ochs
- Posted:
- 03.29.2011
Mortgage Applications Spike 16 Percent as Investors Take Over the Residential Market
Although analysts are sounding a cautionary note, the number of Americans applying for mortgages rose by 16.1 percent in the first week of March – the largest monthly increase since June of 2009. The activity could be due to investors with money to spend, and not the first-time homebuyers who will play a vital role […]
- Author:
- Tom Silva
- Posted:
- 05.21.2009
“The Giant Pool of Money”
$70 trillion dollars. That’s all the money in the world, or to get technical, the subset of global savings known as fixed-income securities. And it almost doubled from $36 trillion in just six years. How did this happen? The Federal Reserve presided over the creation of what we have learned (the hard way) is a […]