Mortgage Industry Blog

Case-Shiller Shows Home Values Rolling Back 9 Years The March Case-Shiller Index was released this week and it corroborates the findings of the government's most recent Home Price Index - home values are slipping nationwide. According to the Case-Shiller Index's publisher, Standard & Poors, home ...

Making A Rate-Lock Plan Before Friday's Jobs Report   Tomorrow morning, at 8:30 AM ET, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its Non-Farm Payrolls report for May. If you're floating a mortgage rate right now - or are in the process of shopping for a loan - consider locking your rate sooner rath...

Mortgage Guidelines Start To Loosen At The Country's Biggest Banks     Another quarter, another sign that mortgage lending may be easing nationwide. The Federal Reserve's quarterly survey of senior loan officers revealed that an overwhelmingly majority of U.S. banks have stopped tightening mortga...