On Wednesday the Treasury Secretary went out to buy back bonds. The program was supposed to be four billion dollars. He bought six, and told the market not to bet against the house. Rates went up anyway. Then on Friday…
Sometime in the next two months, your condo board is going to sit down and approve next year’s budget. One line on that budget decides whether the person buying your neighbor’s unit can put a little down — or has…
On Friday the Federal Reserve chair opened the door to raising interest rates. The odds of a hike in September went from 35% to nearly 58% in one afternoon. Then the average 30-year mortgage moved six one-hundredths of a percent…
Wednesday morning the U.S. Treasury doubled the size of its long-bond buyback program. The thirty-year Treasury had just hit its highest level since 2007. Yields fell on the news. By Thursday, all of it was back. Here’s what actually happened,…
You’ve seen the pitch — “consolidate your debt, lower your payment.” Before you roll credit-card debt onto your house, here’s the honest version, including the one thing about your Florida home that almost nobody explains. We’ll show you when tapping…
Should you pay your mortgage down early with extra payments — or put that money to work somewhere else? It’s one of the most common questions we get, and people feel strongly about it. Here’s the honest answer: at today’s…
Mortgage rates have swung hard in 2026 — from under 6% in the winter to nearly 7% by August. That volatility has cooled buyer competition, which quietly hands buyers something they haven’t had in a while: room to negotiate. But…
Most investors who get turned down for a rental loan aren’t short on money. They’re short on the paperwork a traditional loan wants to see. If that’s you, there’s a better-fitting tool — and it lets you know whether a…
Here’s a call we get some version of almost every week: someone sees a rate online or on a billboard, comes in, we run their actual scenario — and the number comes back higher. The first thing they think is…
There’s a financing tool that lets a buyer over 62 purchase a home, put down roughly half, and make zero monthly mortgage payments for the rest of their life — and most real estate agents have never once brought it…
