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Informing Home Buyers and Home Owners about Mortgage Loans; FHA, VA, Conventional and Refinance. Helping you catch on to the latest in the Real Estate Market as a whole. Providing inspiring commentary on the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Maryland and Virginia Housing Markets, including Property Management and Apartment Industry news. The information you need to stay in it.

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2009 

A lot of time and money is spent annually in foreseeing the future in a variety of areas. From the familiar to the strange. As expected, the mortgage and real estate markets have seen their fair share of this. Some of these studies are more accurate than others, after they are later independently...
05/26/2009
Tentative discussions are already underway on it, although not yet where it really counts. Which is Washington. The Democratic Leadership Council has brought up the idea and it seems to be getting some traction. But as of right now, it's still in its infancy. No legislation has been introduced. T...
05/23/2009
The mortgage and real estate mess has drawn the keen attention of many regulators in Washington and elsewhere, as if the existing laws governing those industries were largely inadequate. It must be, is the thinking, that there were too many gray areas and too many gaping holes in them. By amendin...
05/19/2009
The Obama administration came up with a new plan that is aimed at trying to breathe some more life into the morbid real estate market. It still needs quite a bit of help from wherever it can get it. This time the focus is on short sales, and why not. Anyone - real estate agents, mortgage consulta...
05/15/2009
Washington has been super busy for months in trying to shore up the ailing financial sector, hoping to keep it from being swallowed into an abyss by the real estate market meltdown. It has used rented front loaders to distribute cash to banks weighed down by nearly-worthless mortgage paper. In ad...
05/12/2009
There is some optimism in the dry desert air that the Las Vegas real estate market is hitting bottom. At long last. Perhaps. It's still too early, though, to go into any definitive announcements about that. The patient's vital signs do remain quite mixed, that's why.In any case, 3,198 single-fami...
05/09/2009
Home values are still falling nationally. More in some areas and less in others, but they still seem to be in retreat. People who bought property in the last five years or so are in real danger of being underwater. Or upside down. That's when the balance on the underlying mortgage is higher than ...
05/07/2009
They have become one way out of an untenable jam for many homeowners who can't make their mortgage payments in this tough real estate market. In a short sale a lender will allow the homeowner to sell the property for less than what the loan balance is. It often means the matter is over and done w...
05/05/2009
Who would have thought such a list even existed in this real estate market? Especially since the new home segment is having major trouble in moving inventory almost everywhere, including here in Southern Nevada. But it's true. Robert Charles Lesser & Co., a housing advisory firm, is behind the st...
05/02/2009