President Obama Proposes Mortgage Refinances for ‘Responsible Borrowers’
After several largely ineffective programs to help troubled borrowers and after fruitless attempts at budging the hard-line conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, President Obama is proposing a brand new refinance program for borrowers who are curr…
Mortgage Bankers Reverse Course on Loan Limits
Lowering the current loan limits (a maximum of $729,750 in the most expensive markets) would really affect just 5 percent of the housing market, although that percentage is far higher in certain local markets. David Stevens says that’s enough to hurt t…
Lack of Mobility Hurts Job Recovery
The hallmark of the American labor market, and consequently the wider economy, has long been the mobility of our work force. From “going West” to “teleworking,” we go where the jobs are. Unfortunately the uniquely disastrous state of the current housin…