When you are planning to buy a home, and perhaps acquire a mortgage, what are some of the key considerations that should go into the decision-making process? Some advice from Warren Goldberg, President of Mortgage Wealth Advisors in New York… For most Americans, homeownership is the American Dream and has provided the cornerstone to building […]
Why Do People Choose To Use Hallmark Abstract Service? As many of you know by now the focus of the articles at the Hallmark Abstract Service blog tend to be about issues that either affect the entire title insurance industry, topics that we feel may be of interest to our readers across industries, available events offering business […]
Phishing, spoofing, cyberfraud and spyware are all terms that relate to a third party’s desire to invade your computer and, in many instances, to compromise your non-public information! In other words these scams are designed in their most malicious form to steal a consumers personal information, whether birthdate, social security number or credit cards, and utilize them […]
Can a homebuyer or mortgage refinancer actually pay too much buying title insurance? Isn’t title insurance all the same no matter who’s providing it? Won’t my attorney/mortgage banker be looking out for my best interests? The answers to those questions are a qualified yes, no and hopefully so! With the Spring buying season now upon us and […]
In mid-October 2016 the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate was 3.64% and a 15-year fixed at 2.93%! Now, post-presidential election and based on the fixed income markets belief that the economy is going to improve thus spurring further rate increases by the Federal Reserve, 30-year fixed rate mortgages are on average 4.31% and 15-year fixed […]
Real Estate, School Districts And Teachers Often when homebuyers with children, or those who are planning on having children, make a choice concerning towns to consider purchasing in the quality of the school district will loom large in their list of criteria. Using that logic it would stand to reason that many (although not all) of […]
This photo is a portrayal of just how far that is! In other words if there is ever an instance where an attorney, property owner, property buyer, mortgage bank or anyone else find themselves in the midst of a title insurance related emergency, Hallmark Abstract Service will scale or descend from any height necessary to help! The truth is, however, […]
For anyone who is in the market to buy a home or soon will be, finding the right property is typically only half of the battle! The other half, unless one is paying cash, is applying for a mortgage and then fighting the battle to ultimately be approved. In the pre-financial crisis world qualifying for a […]
Whether you are a seller or buyer of what is, or will likely be, the largest financial transaction of your life… Selecting the right real estate agent is a key piece of the puzzle! That said, and with the plethora of real estate agents in the marketplace to select from, how does a consumer make […]
The desire to buy a home is all well and good but, unless it’s an all-cash transaction, financial decision-making is critically important! Post-financial crisis the underwriting methodology and criteria for residential mortgage loans swung in the exact opposite direction from where they had been in the go-go years of real estate. Before the financial crisis and in […]
