Mortgage Trend

Reading Time: 5 minutes For a first-time homeowner, building your own house or buying a newly constructed home has some excellent advantages. For starters, you don’t have to deal with typical resale issues like painting, refinishing scratched floors or uncovering questionable DIY repairs done by the previous owner. Here are …

Reading Time: 2 minutes What a week. The headlines with market-moving potential came fast and furious this week as a host of political, economic and global issues gave investors cause for both concern and celebration. Meanwhile, mortgage rates continued to fall.  First, the January jobs report on Friday suggested the …

Reading Time: 5 minutes Snagging your first (or second or third) apartment is great, until it isn’t. Tired of unresponsive landlords, unrealistic rent hikes and sharing a bathroom with a revolving door of roommates? It might be time to consider the next phase of your living situation. We think the …

4 minute read A lot of home buyers and sellers these days dismiss Realtors due to online dependence, not realizing that Realtors are key to a secure and satisfactory deal in the real estate market. Even with every information about real estate transactions already available online, Realtors are still downright …

Reading Time: 2 minutes Movement Mortgage, a national top 10 retail mortgage lender, is excited to announce senior loan officer Michelle Clark has joined the Tallahassee, Florida team.  Clark brings a robust book of business to Movement, serving more than 140 families in 2019 for $ 31.5 million in volume. …

Reading Time: 2 minutes The coronavirus has officially made its mark in the United States with the Centers for Disease Control reporting its first case of human-to-human transmission. So what does that have to do with your mortgage rates?  That news from the CDC caused the Dow to drop by …

3 minute read For many home buyers closing costs are major obstacles to buying a home. Closing costs are on average between 2%-4% of the sales price, and that’s on top of the down payment. If you agree to pay closing costs for the buyer you widen the pool of …

6 minute read The two most popular types of mortgage loans used today are Conventional and FHA loans. Choosing the right mortgage program is critical to make sure you get the best deal on your loan. In this article we compare FHA and Conventional loans so you can discover which …

Reading Time: 3 minutes Movement Mortgage, one of the nation’s largest retail mortgage lenders, is honored to announce a $ 22 million investment to support the expansion of charter schools in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Following a record-breaking year of business growth in 2019, Movement will significantly invest to expand access …