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Last Week in Review: Minutes Revealed The highlight of this past week was the Fed Minutes from the January Fed Meeting. The Minutes are a detailed record of the Fed's monetary policy setting meeting, so the markets gain insight into the psyche of the Fed as it relates to interest rates, the economy and more. What […]

Last Week in Review: Canary in the coalmine. The financial markets are sensing a government shutdown and protracted trade war with China will be averted. This is good news and a reason why Stocks have continued to push higher and home loan rates have capped for the past few weeks. But last Thursday, Retail Sales was […]

Overview The Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC (CMS) Lock Desk will be closed on Monday, February 18, 2019 for Presidents Day, which is a Federal Holiday. Normal lock hours will resume on Tuesday, February 19, 2019. Locks that expire on the holiday will automatically roll to the next business day.  In addition, there are some important […]

Overview On December 17th, 2018, the Veteran’s Administration (VA) published an Interim Final Rule addressing VA guaranty requirements for cash-out refinance loans. The rule will be effective for loan applications taken on or after February 15th, 2019 and applies to all Full Doc refinance loan transactions (even if the existing loan is NOT a VA […]

Special February Promotion We have a sweetheart of a deal for you! Carrington Mortgage Services, Wholesale Lending Division is offering to waive the underwriting fee on ALL Non-QM* submissions in the month of February. Whether you submit 1 or 100 loans, the underwriting fee ($650 in most states) will be waived. In by 10 and […]

Last Week in Review: Why home loan rates will stay low The Fed met this past week. As expected, they didn't hike rates and the Fed Statement was very dovish, suggesting that rate hikes will be off the table for most, if not all, of 2019. The Fed looked to muted inflation and slowing economies abroad […]

Last Week in Review: Rates touch 2019 highs this week Despite bond friendly news with the unresolved US/China trade relations and the ongoing government shutdown, rates actually touched 2019 highs midweek...this as stocks continue to move higher. Home loan rates have been on the rise ever since the last Jobs Report and Fed Speech back on […]

Last Week in Review: Stocks continue their winning ways. Home loan rates finished this week near unchanged and remain near 9-month lows -- so we have that going for us. Most of the week's news was pretty bond friendly, including Brexit uncertainty, ongoing Government shutdown, ongoing US/China trade dispute, low inflation and more. So why […]

You Asked … We Answered! With Expanded Carrington Flexible AdvantageSM Guidelines so you can expand your business! Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC (CMS) is pleased to announce the below guideline changes for the Investor Advantage, Carrington Flexible Advantage and Carrington Flexible Advantage Plus products. Guideline Improvements Updated the Maximum DTI from 43% to 50% on 12-month […]

Last Week in Review: No rate hikes in 2019. Who wins? Stocks continued to react positively to Fed Chair Powell's Jan 4th speech, where he essentially said, "we have your back"...meaning that the Fed will be flexible and may not raise rates at all in 2019.  There is an old saying in the financial markets - […]