Maine Mortgage Specialist

Another year has passed, and while the last 5 of them have been rough for the housing market, we’ve now seen two consecutive quarters with most states showing incremental appreciation. Cause for celebration? Perhaps not, yet this is beginning to look like stabilization and that of course is the firs

It’s Official: FHA Hike of 75bps Will Come April 1 The Federal Housing Administration is following through with its pledge to increase upfront and annual insurance premiums on its forward single-family business.  The plan is to help rebuild it’s insurance emergency fund which has taken a hit over th

It’s Official: FHA Hike of 75bps Will Come April 1.   The Federal Housing Administration is following through with its pledge to increase upfront and annual insurance premiums on its forward single-family business. The plan is to help rebuild it’s insurance emergency fund which has taken a hit over

Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program’s fund raiser and hunger awareness event will find hardy volunteers braving the cold from 10 a.m. Saturday, February 18, until 10 a.m. Sunday, February 19, at Cook’s Corner Mall. To join the effort or for more info phone Mary Turner at (207) 729-8647 or email mt@m

  Five Steps To Buying A Home in Maine 1. How much can you afford? Getting in touch with a lender is the best way find out what you qualify for. Your Maine loan officer will take your debt to income ratio, run your credit and give you what is known as a “prequalification letter”. [...]

      In general people file bankruptcy under two chapters and these are Chapter 7 and Chapter 13. In case of Chapter 7 bankruptcy, you are required to handover all of your assets to the bankruptcy trustee. They analyze your debt amount and then sell off the assets to pay the creditors and lenders.

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Round and round we go. The market is struggling to gain stability as market swings are the norm as of late. Mortgage bonds are now falling back off pushing rates higher. Mortgage bond prices opened weaker this morning erasing the gains from yesterday afternoon but have recovered a bit near pricing t

Mortgage bond prices closed slightly below the levels where daily pricing was set applying upward pressure to mortgage rates. Trade was volatile all day tied to the movement in stocks. Equity and bond prices were yo-yoing with each snippet of news out of Europe.  Tomorrow brings weekly jobless claim