Home appraisal system could be dustbin-bound – The Washington Post A Bailout For Pensions? – The Atlantic In case you didn’t know (and I didn’t) there’s a government body out there called the “Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation.” In a similar way to how the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation steps in when banks fail, the PBGC [...]
The song by CLASH, with the same name as this article, may have been a hit back in 1981, when they asked the question that seems to be the question of today, “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” Today, however, the question takes on a more serious tone than the confused singer in his [...]
Though the Sacramento real estate market as a whole has taken a serious hit to home prices since the peak prices of August 2005, the urban core has largely held its values and remains out of reach for many in the region looking for an urban lifestyle. Advocates of more affordable market rate housing in [...]
Home prices rose for the third straight month in August, a key ingredient for a broad and sustained housing recovery was reported in an article in SFGate . The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index of 20 major cities climbed 1 percent from July . The index, released today, show a change in the real [...]
If you haven’t noticed the Facebook changes this past week, you must not be addicted like so many people are to Facebook now! I’m not sure what Facebook was thinking when they made these changes, but most of us don’t like them. There are now 2 feeds at the top of your page…News Feed and [...]
The following additional FHA overlays are being added and will be effective for all FHA loans received starting October 1, 2009. The program guides will be updated with these changes shortly: 1. Ratios on loans with an AU approval may not exceed 41.99/51.99; 2. Loans with non-occupant co-borrowers (unless a “true kiddie condo scenario”): a. [...]
I was reading through some of the information that had been sent to me today and it made me think. “Are we continuing to create a “sub-prime” market”? In today’s real estate market the first time home buyer has come back in force. We have the first time home buyer’s tax credit that has helped [...]
