Mortgage rates are down across the board this week in response to better-than-expected inflation data. Just last month, many feared 30-year mortgage rates would finally surpass 8%, making mortgages even more unaffordable for the average homebuyer. Today, rates are back down and hovering near 7%.  As

Rates roughly doubled in 2022, thanks in part to the Federal Reserve’s war on inflation, and have stayed high since. While the Fed does not directly set mortgage rates, mortgage lenders take cues from them, and mortgage rates climbed in tandem with the Fed’s long string of rate hikes. The Fed’s war

Bret Weinstein, a longtime real estate broker in Denver, wants to love his industry. At its best, the business helps people find the homes of their dreams or secure financial freedom. But lately, he’s been having trouble squaring that passion with a growing problem: a glut of under qualified real-es