Category: All About Insurance

CNBC’s Diana Olick released a video report on Wednesday revealing that the number of mortgage applications submitted to lenders – both to the big banks and non-bank lenders – is on the rise for the second straight week. According to...

Now that housing prices are on the rise once more, house flippers are making their way back into the housing market in record numbers, hoping to snatch up distressed homes, renovate them swiftly and efficiently, and then put them back...

Zillow Chief Economist Stan Humphries warned on Tuesday that the extremely low mortgage rates we’re seeing right now could pose a problem for would-be homebuyers once they’re ready to turn around and sell. “In a lot of markets, homebuyers are...

Fannie Mae found in its most recent quarterly survey of lenders’ sentiments that there is lots of optimism surrounding the state of the mortgage industry as we continue to move further into 2015. The report found that, compared with the...

CNBC’s “Reality Check” writer Diana Olick reported on Thursday that many homeowners are beginning to feel the pinch leftover from taking out a home equity line of credit (HELOC), which was popular between 2005 and 2008 when the financial crisis...

February was a less-than-stellar month as far as mortgage interest rates go, but as it drew to a close over the weekend, consumers saw modest gains. By Friday afternoon, rates slipped to as low as 3.75 percent for a 30-year...

With interest rates falling to record lows in recent months, more homeowners have been refinancing their mortgages than ever before. Still, there are plenty who didn’t jump on the bandwagon, and that’s ok. The Wall Street Journal asked John Schleck,...

The Urban Institute reported on Monday that nearly one in three FHA borrowers could save a significant amount of money over the course of their home loans if they were to refinance today. With President Barack Obama’s proposed 0.5 percentage...

Bank of America Corp., Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have begun accelerating the sales of $4.5 billion worth of home loans, Bloomberg Business is reporting. According to Mission Capital Advisors, the loans are made up of various types of...