Mortgage Resources

The National Association of Realtors' Existing Home Sales report is the broadest measure of housing market activity. It just hit a 14-year record for the 3rd month in a row. It's not just existing homes.  The new home market is crushing it as well.  This week's data...

Rarely does the month of November offer so much activity for the housing and mortgage markets, but it always offers an updated conforming loan limit. This refers to the maximum loan amount for mortgages that "conform" to the guidelines of housing agencies Fannie Mae...

Heading into the presidential election, there were significant risks for mortgage rates and a wide range of potential outcomes. We knew there would be volatility either way, and we were right! Volatility goes both ways.  Heading into the election, the bond market (the...

The 2016 election won't soon be forgotten in the mortgage or bond markets. Many of the predictions were dead wrong when it came to how interest rates would react to a Trump victory, and the reason ended up being very simple in hindsight. Are there any parallels that...