Kevin Martini's (martinifactor) Blog

Last week - Bernanke and the Fed have helped to stabilize the financial markets, and calmed some of the "credit crunch blues". Just over a week ago, the Fed made a decision to lower the rate at their "Discount Window", allowing banking institutions another method of providing assurance of liquidi...

  Hello Blog Friends, Please excuse the personal nature of this blog but with the recent wealth of "offline" thoughts, I wanted to share my current position.  The last weeks reminds me of the song, "What A Long Strange Trip It Has Been". Two weeks ago Monday night I went to bed as a HomeBanc Asso...

Mortgage Financing...What's Going On?Anyone watching or reading the financial news this weekend, over the last few days and weeks has seen a lot of anguish and dismay over the state of the mortgage industry. In fact, one of the larger lenders in the US, American Home Mortgage, was forced to shut ...

Last weekGOOD, BAD OR UGLY?  I truly believe all off the above, if we're looking at last week and home loan rates in Raleigh, Cary and the entire Triangle. Good news came in the form of the very friendly inflation and employment news, which helped rates on conforming home loans improve by about ....