Tag Archives: home mortgage

Fall Is In The Air

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Alan Kennedy

The weather in Athens is cooling off and the Dawgs are back on the field. The season is changing, as they have a habit of doing. Summer is usually busy for the housing market due to families with young children moving … Continue reading →

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Looking Good In Late August

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Alan Kennedy

Things have been quiet all summer in terms of mortgage interest rates, and as we’ve discussed before that’s just fine. The average rate has been hovering around 4%, providing a stability in the housing market that’s still in the shadow … Continue reading →

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Time To Buy

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Alan Kennedy

Mortgage rates have been holding steady at just above 4% for quite some time, so Twitter understandably reacted today when the average rate dropped below 4%. It’s great news on its own, but what we should consider the rest of the … Continue reading →

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Millennials Are On The Move

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Alan Kennedy

Millennials have been financially battered for a great portion of their lives, which we’ve discussed before. Given that they’re the largest generation so far, we can only wonder what might be had they grown up in more stable and ideal … Continue reading →

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Good News And Bad News Keeping Us In A Holding Pattern

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Alan Kennedy

As expected, mortgage rates have continued to hover around the same numbers that we’ve seen in recent weeks; just over 4% hasn’t been terrible but we’d all like to see those rates go down. That may not be likely. Jobs reports … Continue reading →

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Looking Up

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Alan Kennedy

Mortgage rates have still been hovering around 4%, which isn’t great news but as we’re seeing isn’t exactly the end of the market. As we discussed previously, stability might even be a good thing. Prices and rates have been inching … Continue reading →

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Stability

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Alan Kennedy

If you’ve been following my Facebook or Twitter feeds, you may have noticed something. Over the last few weeks the housing market has improved, but that has also meant higher interest rates and home prices. However, in the last few … Continue reading →

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Builder Confidence Is Up

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Alan Kennedy

There’s something magnetic about confidence, isn’t there? When a person is (or at least appears to be) confident in what they’re doing, we’re naturally wired to take them seriously, and even start following them. That can be a problem in … Continue reading →

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Keeping Perspective While Rates Are Up

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Alan Kennedy

For some time now we’ve been discussing the relationship between the recovering economy and rising interest rates. Bloomberg has a new report showing that jobless claims are now at a 15 year low: More people getting back to work is … Continue reading →

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Good News For Athens

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Alan Kennedy

Another jobs report is out from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and it isn’t bad at all. It’s similar to the March report, which we discussed here awhile back. Just shy of a quarter million jobs were created in April, meaning … Continue reading →

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