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US Economic Calendar: Week of April 14, 2014

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Follow @Hallmark Abstract Service US Economic Calendar for the Week of April 14, 2014 For real estate investors, residential or commercial real estate property buyers worried about mortgage rates or current property owners looking to either refinance or sell, the economic data to be released in the upcoming week will most certainly have some degree of […]

Caveat Emptor: Mortgage REIT’s

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In the low interest environment that evolved from the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing program, investors who were searching for higher yielding investments found them in mortgage real estate investment trusts or Mortgage REITs. These funds that invest in mortgages  secured by real estate will typically use leverage (or borrowed funds) to increase the amount of […]