News & Events

  • Housing markets suffer under rising prices and mortgage rates - 2018-11-19
    Rising mortgage rates and continued home price growth are hurting affordability and fast becoming a toxic cocktail for the nation’s homebuilders, USA Today reports. Sentiment among homebuilders...
  • U.S Mortgages – Rates Steady after early November’s Jump - 2018-11-17
    Following the previous week’s 11 basis point jump in 30-year fixed mortgage rates to a 7-year high, rates held steady in the week ending 15 th November, with a number of factors pinning mortgage...
  • GRBJ: Mortgage rates should continue to increase - 2018-11-18
    Mortgage rates are steadily increasing. According to Joshua Gibbs, community president/commercial lending for Commercial Bank, the mortgage rates in the area now are anywhere from 5 percent to 5.25...
  • How to get rid of PMI, or private mortgage insurance - 2018-11-17
    Mortgage insurance premiums are anywhere between 0.3 to 1.5 percent of the original loan amount every year. That means that if you have a $200,000 loan with a PMI rate of 1 percent, it’ll end up...
  • Mortgage Rates Maintain Recent Lows - 2018-11-19
    Mortgage rates unexpectedly dropped to their lowest levels in more than a month as of last Friday. That assertion is at odds with quite a few media reports that cited Freddie Mac's weekly survey data ...