Blog: mortgage rates

Residential real estate has been performing just fine throughout the “easy money” economic environment of the past decade.  Now that…

Now is a good time to brace yourself for the impact of higher rates.  We have been discussing the artificially…

It appears that someone still has their thumb on the scale as we begin 2018.  With housing, stocks and bonds…

Let’s wait and see how a variety of factors shape the real estate market as we finish 2017 and move…

There are a few areas to watch as we begin 2017 and we will highlight them with new charts.  After…

Let’s face it, real estate markets have been boring since the financial crisis.  Once the government intervened by dropping rates…

For the past seven years, abnormally low interest rates have served as “training wheels” for the U.S. economy.  They have…

When real estate market sentiment shifts, you won’t hear a bell ring or sounding of an alarm.  Today we will point…

How is transaction volume dropping when mortgage rates are so low?  We have been charting the transaction volume throughout South…

Although it may be challenging to apply “market timing” to an asset class like single-family homes or condo properties, the…