by Jason Boone | Dec 28, 2015 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Mortgage Interest Rates, Real Estate News
By Jason Boone Predicting the future is a fool’s errand. As the last 15 years of peaks and valleys in real estate has taught us, it can be particularly foolhardy to say with any certainty what the year ahead will bring. Yet we all still look ahead to 2016 with a sense...
by Jason Boone | Dec 21, 2015 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Home Buying Tips, Mortgage Interest Rates, Mortgage Loan, Real Estate News
By Jason Boone The news was hardly surprising last week when the announcement came that the Federal Open Market Committee would be hiking the target range of the federal funds rate a quarter point. After seven years of a zero-interest policy, such a move from the...
by Jason Boone | Oct 15, 2015 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Home Buying Tips, Mortgage Interest Rates, Mortgage Loan, Mortgages, Real Estate News
By Jason Boone Before buying real estate in Bend, Oregon, it’s helpful for a prospective buyer to know more about some important documentation changes. The TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure, or TRID, is a mouthful for most anyone to say. But what might be...
by Jason Boone | Jun 30, 2015 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Mortgages
By Jason Boone BEND – This week the Real Estate and Mortgage Industries learned that the new TRID rules, or TILA-RESPA, as it’s known in some circles, will be delayed until October 1st 2015. If you’re not familiar with TRID and how it will affect you, especially if...
by Jason Boone | Feb 10, 2015 | Bend Oregon Real Estate
By Jason Boone The latest Bend Oregon Real Estate news which affects both buyers and sellers is that mortgage interest rates continue to drop. As of today mortgage interest rates are currently averaging about 3.59% for a 30-year fixed conventional mortgage loan. So...