Construction loans, especially owner builder construction loans, are tricky enough when the mortgage industry and housing market is doing well. Things got a lot tougher, though, when lenders tagged certain counties around the nation as being areas of declining values. These counties are known in the mortgage industry as soft markets, and they are having [...]
Phil Gordon, the Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona states that the housing bailout legislation is a great start but falls short to stop the mortgage meltdown being experienced today. Today Mayor Gordon will meet in Washington, D.C with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers to fight for additional funding for the first time home buyers. [...]
There are many questions that can be asked about home mortgage refinance. Let’s take a look at what could be considered the top three things people want to know. This is a big decision you will be making and you definitely don’t want to make any mistakes. If you are looking to refinance your mortgage, [...]
With interest rates at a 12-year high and lenders increasing their rates outside the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cash rate cycle, many borrowers are understandably feeling wary. The cash rate is Australia’s official interest rate and usually lenders only move mortgage rates in synch with it, but this hasn’t been the case over last [...]
A non-performing loan is a loan that is in default or close to being in default. Many loans become non-performing after being in default for 3 months, but this can depend on the contract terms. “A loan is nonperforming when payments of interest and principal are past due by 90 days or more, or at [...]