Pre-approvals are a funny animal. Home buyers sometimes rely on them too much and lenders sometimes offer them only reluctantly...
It’s hard to imagine the mortgage industry getting more competitive than it already is, but it will…every year. One area...
Banks are hungry for mortgage referrals from real estate agents. They’re so hungry that they’re willing to pay up to...
Falling mortgage rates have been one of the biggest single factors escalating home prices. So as rates reverse higher—assuming it’s...
Fitch Ratings, one of the big three North American credit rating agencies, published its mortgage loss model today. It’s basically...
As reported here, the Conservative budget proposes to limit private securitization of insured mortgages. It’s a move that one industry...
There are so many things the Average Joe doesn’t know about the mortgage business. One is that bank mortgage reps...
This week’s Globe column looks at ways people scrape together down payments when they don’t have enough non-registered savings of...
Ever since the credit crisis, there’s been an ongoing clampdown on mortgage risk. Nowhere is that more evident than with...
We get a stream of emails from seniors with mortgages, some of whom are in financial hurt. It is those...
