This week is seeing mortgage rates decrease a bit after a rise over the past few weeks. The overall theme this week is that the economic data that was released was good, but not great, which was a bit of a disappointment to the markets. This means that the lackluster data helped exert downward pressure [...]

For the third time in three months, existing-home sales (homes that have been previously occupied, not new) rose in January, while inventories continued to improve, according to the National Association of Realtors. Additionally, new home sales for January fell by 0.9% from December to 321,000 sales, which is better than the market expected, yet even more [...]

Yesterday, mortgage rates rose on news of a solution to the debt issues affecting the Eurozone. Also affected were the Stock and Bond Markets with the Dow surging 339 points. Today, data was released for September’s Personal Income and Outlays report, Employment Cost Index (ECI) and University of Michigan’s Index of Consumer Sentiment for October. The Personal [...]