LA Real Estate Advice: Mortgage Bonds Booming

LA Real Estate Advice: Mortgage Bonds Booming

Posted by Clinton Wade on Jul 02, 2010

Westside LA Real Estate Advice: Race for ‘Safe’ Assets Sends Home-Loan Rates to New Low as Recovery Wobbles. Residential mortgage bonds, the center of the financial crisis not long ago, are Read More >

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LA Real Estate Advice: Tax Credit Extension Relieves Late Homebuyers

LA Real Estate Advice: Tax Credit Extension Relieves Late Homebuyers

Posted by Clinton Wade on Jul 01, 2010

Westside LA Real Estate Advice: Homebuyers worried about closing their house purchases by the tax credit cutoff can relax after the government extended the deadline. Congress sent President Barack Obama Read More >

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LA Real Estate Advice: What Reform Means For Your Mortgage

LA Real Estate Advice: What Reform Means For Your Mortgage

Posted by Clinton Wade on Jun 30, 2010

Westside LA Real Estate Advice: Predatory lending would likely become a thing of the past if proposed regulatory reform rules are put into practice. And that may mean that mortgages get more expensive Read More >

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LA Real Estate Advice: Mortgages Face New Rules

LA Real Estate Advice: Mortgages Face New Rules

Posted by Clinton Wade on Jun 28, 2010

Westside LA Real Estate Advice: Some worry about higher costs, fewer choices for borrowers. The Dodd-Frank financial-regulatory overhaul, which Democrats hope will win final Congressional approval this Read More >

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LA Real Estate Advice: Refinancing Might Not Be Best Idea

LA Real Estate Advice: Refinancing Might Not Be Best Idea

Posted by Clinton Wade on Jun 27, 2010

Westside LA Real Estate Advice: Despite low rates, it could end up costing you more than it’s worth. Do the lowest mortgage rates since the mid-1950s mean it’s a good time to refinance your home Read More >

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LA Real Estate Advice: Banks Hiring To Make More Loans

LA Real Estate Advice: Banks Hiring To Make More Loans

Posted by Clinton Wade on Jun 27, 2010

Westside LA Real Estate Advice: Several banks are gearing up to do a whole lot more mortgage lending in the future. Even though new homes sales were at a historical low in May and the housing market in Read More >

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LA Real Estate Advice: Good Schools, Bad Real Estate

LA Real Estate Advice: Good Schools, Bad Real Estate

Posted by Clinton Wade on Jun 26, 2010

Westside LA Real Estate Advice: Despite the housing slump, house hunting in good school districts frustrates parents who often have to settle for less house. It’s supposed to be a buyer’s market. Read More >

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LA Real Estate Advice: Mortgage Rates at Lowest Point Since Mid-1950s

LA Real Estate Advice: Mortgage Rates at Lowest Point Since Mid-1950s

Posted by Clinton Wade on Jun 24, 2010

Westside LA Real Estate Advice: National average for a 30-year fixed loan dips to 4.69 percent. Mortgages are cheaper today than they’ve been in a half-century. If only most people had the job security, Read More >

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LA Real Estate Advice: Tighter Standards Slow Down Housing Market

LA Real Estate Advice: Tighter Standards Slow Down Housing Market

Posted by Clinton Wade on Jun 24, 2010

Westside LA Real Estate Advice: Borrowers plow through piles of paperwork, endure lengthy scrutiny. Tanya is a self-employed writer with solid credit and enough savings to put 30 percent down on her chosen Read More >

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LA Real Estate Advice: Existing Home Sales Weak But Supply Falls

LA Real Estate Advice: Existing Home Sales Weak But Supply Falls

Posted by Clinton Wade on Jun 23, 2010

Westside LA Real Estate Advice: Sales of previously owned U.S. homes unexpectedly fell last month, a decline economists and real estate agents pinned on delays in processing mortgage applications. Existing Read More >

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