Eligible online purchases of $49 or more can be financed through fixed monthly installments, with approved passholders able to use Season Pass benefits before repayment is complete.

Former AvalonBay holders now own about 51% of Vivmark, which starts trading as VMRK Tuesday with more than 184,000 apartments and $4.4 billion under construction.

Builder confidence barely improved in August, while 35% of builders cut prices and nearly two-thirds used sales incentives as elevated mortgage rates kept buyers cautious.

Auto debt increased by $28 billion and credit-card balances by $21 billion in Q2, while a mortgage-reporting gap helped push total household debt down slightly.

We spend a whole lot of money without really thinking about this much, and also don’t think much about how little we end up saving. It’s time to think about things more. We are as guilty as anyone for focusing so much on what we should do with the money that we set aside to […]

The Great Recession of 2008 is most famous for the massive default rate we saw with mortgage backed securities. Don’t look now, but this problem is back, and in a big way. While just about everyone who was around during the financial crisis before this one, an economic downturn severe enough to not just be […]

While homeowners have benefited from mortgage deferral payments, deferring paying the rent is a different proposition altogether. Their rising rent bills need to be dealt with or else. As it stands, the month of July is a significant one on the path towards trying to recover from the ravages of our recent economic slowdown due […]

During the last financial crisis, the housing market was ground zero. It’s much more on the periphery this time, and the effects of the lockdown will be more like a stall than a crash. The 2008 financial crisis was brought about entirely from the collapse of the housing market, or more specifically, the collapse of […]

During the last financial crisis, mortgage lending was at the forefront. This one is far broader. Mortgages are caught up in this big net as well, but not as much as some think. Those who remember the financial crisis of 2008 will have a pretty good idea of how big of a deal the mortgage […]

Depending on the circumstances, it can always be a good time to refinance your mortgage. Today’s low rates make this even more tempting, but we need to be careful. There never seems to be a shortage of what we could call refinance bears out there, those who seem to forever want to caution us against […]