Category: Home Buying Guides

Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Narayana Kocherlakota said if his underlying inflation predictions hold true, it’s certainly possible that the central bank will have to raise the funds rate by more than a half percentage point by the end of this year. Since most lenders base their loan rates on the Fed Rate this means that…

Fixed Rate Mortgages are starting to creep up a bit and this may have people thinking about purchasing a new home. Unfortunately for every person in a home that also means selling. Although in all areas of the US the market has not come to a complete halt low interest rates and wariness of banks…

A new housing report for March, 2011 was just released showing that there is a very large number of homes in the US that are vacant. Although there is normally a good number of homes somewhere around 7 to 10 percent that can be vacant for a short period of time and others that remain…