Federal Reserve Actions Could Make Getting Mortgages Easier – Rates have been slowly climbing in response to the federal reserve stance on inflation but homebuyers shouldn’t worry about having trouble qualifying for a mortgage loan in the months to come....
Will Larger Conforming Loan Limits Bring a Housing Crisis? Home prices have been on the rise in a very quick manner for some time now and they do not appear to be hugely slowing down. A large reason for the increase in home prices is low mortgage rates that have...
Recently five US senators introduced a bill that could help families with modest means build wealth through homeownership. This new proposal is called the LIFT Act, or Low-Income First-Time Homebuyers Act, and is currently only a bill. This new bill is hoped to...
Shortly after the pandemic began, the government put into place protections that required mortgage lenders to offer mortgage forbearance programs for homeowners that saw themselves struggling to make ends meet while things were shut down. These Covid relief...
For many years the federal entities of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would back mortgages and purchase them from lenders within certain rules. Traditionally Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac set a limit on how much a mortgage lender can lend out for them to guarantee and back a...