Portland Home Mortgage Guide

If you have been watching the news at all lately (and it’s probably safe to assume that most people with a Portland home loan have been), you have probably heard a lot of discussion (bickering) about the concept “Mark to Market” and if changes need to be made. What exactly is Mark to Market and [...]

Over the past 30 years, Portland mortgage rates have ebbed and flowed significantly in a financial tide of home mortgage offerings. Near the beginning of the 1980s, for example, mortgage rates for regular thirty year, fixed rate mortgages were right around 18%. Today, though, we see rates for the same type of mortgage loan roughly [...]