The Blue Button Broadcast

This Week’s Highlights: Adverse Market Fees & The Ever-Evolving World of Mortgages Gray Areas in Mortgage Lending Future Forecast for Home Prices: Numbers Behind the Emotions

This Week’s Highlights: An Amazing Time for Interest Rates Mortgages: a Tool for Your Life Goals A New Criteria for Jumbo Loans

This Week’s Highlights: Home Sales from June 2019 to June 2021 Home Buying Factors: Emotions, Family and Affordability The Latest Update from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

This Week’s Highlights: New Study Commissioned By NAR on Nationwide Housing Shortage Should You Use A Home Equity Line Of Credit As a “Bridge Loan?” Special Considerations With For Sale By Owner Properties

This Week’s Highlights: Outcome of Open Market Committee Meeting Digging Through the Data: False Alarms A Sale Story: The Importance of Reading Contract Details

This Week’s Highlights: What does inflation mean for home buyers? How do mold hazards affect home loans? A curveball just before closing

This Week’s Highlights: Jobs Report: Not as Strong as Expected, But Not Bad News Home Appreciation and PMI When Can Monthly PMI Be Completely Dropped?

This Week’s Highlights: Are home prices really skyrocketing? The closing table: benefits of coming with extra money The benefits of working with an experienced mortgage lender

This Week’s Highlights: Another interesting home sale statistic article Homebuyers are feeling (rightfully) discouraged Difference between primary and secondary residences

This Week’s Highlights: Last call for last chance refinance Monthly payment vs advertised interest rates Brian’s epiphany: writing a winning offer

This Week’s Highlights : Good and bad news for mortgage rates and the economy Potential headaches after your offer is accepted The pros and cons of gray market sales

This Week’s Highlights: Home buying mortgage rates see a slight decline Refinancing rates saw the opposite fate What’s up with luxury condo new builds?

This week’s Highlights: Home buying mortgage rates see a slight decline Refinancing rates saw the opposite fate What’s up with luxury condo new builds?

This week’s Highlights: A major client win! How buying season changes things First time refinancing clients

This week’s Highlights: A look at a client update AND a client success story

This week’s Highlights: Milwaukee Metro Area home sale data for March Cash offers & Second home contingencies Wall Street Journal got it all wrong

This week’s Highlights: Were February sales down significantly? Why there aren’t any homes available

This week’s Highlights: Some things to note about home sale contingencies Does your credit score really matter? Mortgage Rates for this week

This week’s Highlights: Financing vacation homes Upsizing for a growing family

This week’s Highlights: Redfin Housing Demand Index stats Federal Housing and Finance Agency Home Home Price Index stats Bridge Loans for downsizing with a second home in Florida Freddie Mac’s weekly rate survey

This week’s Highlights: Mortgage Rates keep creeping up Home value also continues to rise

This week’s Highlights: Mortgage rates are up from last week… but that’s not the whole story Can you afford to wait to lock in a mortgage rate? Buying a condo: What you need to know

This week’s Highlights: Pros and cons of a dual pre-approval Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors January home sale numbers

This week’s Highlights: A Continuing Theme: First time home buyers competing in the market Fox Business refinancing article: Really as bad as it seems? Federal Housing Financing Agency stats and figures

This week’s Highlights: Tim’s Tips for first time home buyers An update on last week’s FHA loan client experience & why condos aren’t his best move WHEDA Loans : What has changed? Getting approved for a loan as a self-employed home buyer