Blog: Mortgage Rates
Take a bite
At what point will higher mortgage rates take a bite out of residential real estate prices? By looking at a…
Cooling process
A cooling process is underway in the South Florida residential real estate market. Prices are stretched and buyers are finally…
Break on through
Rates have finally decided to break on through (to the other side) to quote The Doors. We have been talking…
If it all falls down
What will happen if it all falls down? I guess the housing “recovery” has been fun, but it looks like…
Picked off running the bases
If you aren’t careful, you will get picked off while running the bases playing baseball. Sometimes the game gets a…
Deal or no deal?
Deal volume appears to be on the decline in the South Florida residential real estate market. This could be seasonal,…
Brace for impact
Now is a good time to brace yourself for the impact of higher rates. We have been discussing the artificially…
Let’s wait and see
Let’s wait and see how a variety of factors shape the real estate market as we finish 2017 and move…
What happens when the training wheels come off?
For the past seven years, abnormally low interest rates have served as “training wheels” for the U.S. economy. They have…
Why is real estate transaction volume dropping when mortgage rates are still so low?
How is transaction volume dropping when mortgage rates are so low? We have been charting the transaction volume throughout South…