The week’s best real estate stories: Bizarre Mortgage Requests Delay Borrowers | Realtor Magazine Underwriters are being extra vigilant in verifying every detail of a mortgage application, and some of their requests for information, borrowers say, are downright odd.  Absurd! Historic Move in Rates Mortgage rates finally lost less ground than they have over the […]

The week’s best real estate stories: Making Multi-Generational Housing Work In our not-so-distant past, it was commonplace for multiple generations to live under the same roof. Real Estate: Pocket Listings in a Tight Market NAR: Buyer traffic up 29% from a year ago Existing-home sales improved for the second month in a row in May, […]

The week’s best real estate stories: The Return of the 10 Percent Down Payment | Zillow Blog Before the credit crisis of the mid-2000s, getting a home loan was simple. Your down payment was small — if you even had to make one. To qualify, all you had to do was “state” your income and […]