Home Affordability

Many people begin their home search online and ultimately come across the perfect home. They want to make an appointment to view the home and decide it’s just perfect. They have run all the numbers on a mortgage calculator and accordingly, ...

The third quarter statistics quoted in a recent article about housing costs and affordability of homes in Indianapolis led me to my own research. I'm not the type of person who takes this information as the final word. I always run my own numbers to ...

If you locked in your interest rate on a home this past week, congratulations! The Indianapolis real estate market may not find better interest rates than we have right now. The current mortgage rates make buying a home in Indianpolis a better ...

Despite the headlines, it's important to remember that December's jobs report wasn't all bad news.  Sure, the economy shed 85,000 jobs last month and the Unemployment Rate failed to dip below 10%, but for home buyers and rate shoppers in ...

On the first Friday of each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its Non-Farm Payrolls report.  More commonly, it's called the 'jobs report'. The jobs report is a sector-by-sector look into the U.S. economy and whether businesses ...