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housing mortgage HousingWire looks back at each month of 2020's wild ride for mortgage rates, which hit record-lows 16 times this year. Here's a month-by-month breakdown. The post How record-low mortgage rates changed everything in 2020 appeared first on HousingWire....

I have flipped more than 200 houses in my career and while I love flipping, it is not easy! We have flipped 26 houses per year multiple times, and I can truly say that the more houses you flip, the more problems you have.

This is the fourth installment of our economist Q&A series, as we work to answer the top 2021 housing market. In this installment, HousingWire interviewed Jeff Tucker, senior economist at Zillow. 

The increase of e-mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spiked significantly over the first six months of 2020, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) reported. In a September white paper, the FHFA reported that e-mortgages comprised 4.25 percent of al...

Many of us dream of getting rich quick! We dream of hitting a big deal or an amazing opportunity falling into our lap that makes us a ton of money. Or maybe, we do nothing at all and a rich uncle we never knew leaves us his fortune! Wouldn't that be amazing? 

I bought a commercial property in 2018 for $2,100,000. It was a 68k square foot strip mall that had a grocery store, restaurant, office, and coffee shop as tenants. I bought this property in Northern Colorado and it was the most expensive and biggest property I had e...