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Stop Selling the Price. Start Selling the Payment: A New Strategy for Metro Atlanta Home Sellers
With mortgage rates climbing again, many potential homebuyers are saying they will wait until next year, hoping rates come back down.
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Washington Promised Lower Rates. Homebuyers Are Still Waiting.
If you’ve been waiting for mortgage rates to fall because those on Capitol Hill and the Federal Reserve have signaled potential rate cuts, you’re not alone.
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The “War” Is Showing Up in More Than Just Gas Prices
The war is no longer content to express itself at the gas pump. It has begun diffusing across asset classes with a speed and synchronicity that feels less like coincidence and more like a real-time demonstration of macroeconomic transmission under stress.
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Refinancing: Is It Time? Maybe. But Don’t Get Sold.
Refinancing has once again taken center stage in the mortgage world, with more than 60% of all current mortgage applications now driven by refinance activity. On the surface, that sounds like good news: rates are easing, consumers are acting, and opportunity appears to be in the air.
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Payment, Not Price: Why Home Sellers Must Retire Their 2021 Playbook…
There was a time not long ago when listing a home felt less like a real estate transaction and more like securing tickets to a sold-out concert. Between 2020 and 2022, eager buyers lined neighborhood streets waiting for open houses to begin, reminiscent of fans camping overnight for the 1984 Victory Tour.
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The VA Loan Myth: Why Sellers Should Stop Overlooking Veteran Buyers…
For decades, investors, economists, and policymakers have relied on familiar inflation gauges such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index to help determine the direction of monetary policy.
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Economic Outlook for the Second Half of 2026: Inflation, the Federal Reserve, and Mortgage Rates
Last week offered the markets their first real glimpse of the "new Federal Reserve" under Chairman Kevin Warsh. Investors, economists, and political observers alike were watching closely for signs that the Fed might align itself with President Trump's repeated calls for lower interest rates.
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The Fed’s Crystal Ball Is Costing Markets Their Compass
Somewhere along the way, Wall Street stopped reading economic reports and started treating every Federal Reserve meeting like a séance.
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It Was Nice While It Lasted: Markets Discover Geopolitics Still Exists
The markets were having a rare moment of peace. Then geopolitics wandered back into the room like an uninvited relative who immediately starts arguing at Thanksgiving.
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The Most Expensive Question Homebuyers Never Ask
If I had a dollar for every prospective homebuyer whose first question was, "What's your rate?"...well, I could probably buy down my own mortgage rate.
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