Sep 25, 2012 2:47PM Even while housing is repeatedly cited as a leading cause of the Great Recession and as a significant key to a full recovery the candidates for President of the United States have had little to say on the subject . While President Barack Obama has been heavily involved in housing issues for almost four years and it is fairly easy to derive and document what we can assume will be his policy over the next four years the same is obviously not true for the challenger. Mitt Romney finally released a ... Sep 25, 2012 2:47PM Mortgage rates surged lower again today , continuing an ongoing push into lower all-time lows . Although bond markets in general moved lower in rate today, the overriding factor leading mortgage rates lower is the ongoing reaction to the Fed's recently announced quantitative easing measures which specifically target the securities that underlie the mortgage market. Yesterday's rate sheets were strong enough that we noted 3.25% as the more prevalent Best-Execution rate among most lenders. Today's...
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