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Prices keep going up , so loan limits are as well. Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today announced the maximum conforming loan limits for mortgages to be acquired by [...]

Conventional loan limits are going to increase in 2018. For Contra Costa County , California the new loan limit will be $679,650 up from $636,100 currently. In 2016 the loan limit was $625,500. [...]

We have a special program here that allows a much smaller down-payment than is normally required for super Jumbo loans. With this program we can go up to a $3,125,000 home purchase with 10% down [...]

Today a past client contacted me to look up rates for them. They have been “on the fence” for a refi a couple months now. When I originally reached out to them rates were at a 2 yr [...]

Craig Bosse just hammered this one out of the park for me. I’m a Realtor in Seattle and have a client who’s been dying to get into a new home. The last lender he tried to work with [...]

If you’re on the fence for a refinance or currently in escrow on a purchase.. I would advise locking in the next 2 weeks. The next fed meeting is scheduled for the end of October. Whether [...]

It’s obviously easier to picture the process of estimating value on an existing property in a neighborhood that has a history of home sales, but the task of determining the value on new [...]

Here’s a few recent examples that I’ve been able to accomplish- 1) Loan was “denied” by underwriting… Over several days I researched and dug up enough information to [...]