Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Report on Home Loan Modifications A couple of months ago the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston issued a report on the status of Boston real estate mortgage loan modifications. The federal government has included some different incentives in an attempt to entice mortgage lenders, including those that hold loans in [...]

Some people have elected to hold off purchasing a new home in the Boston real estate market because they are under the perception that mortgage interest rates might decline in the not too distant future. Some of these individuals have concluded, for one reason or another, that home mortgage loan interest rates in the Boston [...]

Mortgage Refinancing Rate Declines, Including in Boston Real Estate Market There has been a bit of dip in the application rate associated with the refinancing of home mortgage loans. This dip is experienced both in the Boston real estate market and across the country as well. A good share of experts – again, both in [...]

Local Lenders Take Lead in Massachusetts Real Estate Mortgage Lending: Local Lenders Take Larger Role in Boston Real Estate Market As Well Up until more recent times – at about the peak of what has become known in the country as the “home mortgage crisis” – the Massachusetts and Boston real estate markets were dominated [...]

Dealing with Fraudulent Home Mortgage Lending Activities No real estate market in the United States has been completely free of fraudulent home mortgage lending activities. The same is true of the Boston real estate market. However, a redoubled effort is underway both to punish those individuals and firms that have been involved in fraudulent mortgage [...]

An Overview of the Massachusetts Foreclosure Rate – Boston Real Estate Although there have been some positive signs pertaining to improvement in the Massachusetts and Boston real estate markets, the rate of foreclosure filings in the state did increase more than 15 percent between January and June of this year. Foreclosure filings in Massachusetts now [...]

Congress Proposes Plan to Let Homeowners Remain in Residences as Renters With concern remaining about the home mortgage foreclosure rate across the country – including within the Boston real estate market – a leading United States Senator has proposed a plan that will permit homeowners who can no longer afford their mortgage payments to remain [...]

Some Good News from Freddie Mac: National Home Funding Company’s Portfolio Increases Of course, unless you have avoided news all together during the past couple of years, there has been a steady stream of bad news associated with Freddie Mac. However, at this point in time there is at least some good news coming out [...]

Improvement in Massachusetts 30 Year Mortgage Rates: Boston Real Estate Market Benefits from More Favorable Mortgage Rates Over the course of the past year a good deal of attention has been paid to the 30 year mortgage rate in the Bay State when contrasted with the rate in other states in the country. According to [...]