The current real estate market feels very much like when I first started helping people buy and sell real estate in 1991. Foreclosures are on the rise, prices have dropped significantly and everything the media has to say is doom and gloom. There is one big difference, though and that is interest rates. […]

Fannie Mae, one of the nations largest players in the secondary market (where mortgages are bought and sold) has just changed its mind about requiring an additional 5% down payment in areas that it considers to have “declining market values”. Of course, a declining market encompasses most of the United States. So, the […]

Stay tuned because soon there will be new financing rules whether you’re looking to buy, refinance or sell. Yes, if you’re looking to sell and not buy again, these changes will effect you as well, since your buyer will need to qualify with the new rules. Who’s making these new rules you ask? […]