Want to buy a new home but keep your low-interest rate? Try this simple mortgage hack
High interest rates are one of the biggest obstacles facing buyers entering the housing market today: As anyone who has bought a home in the past few years knows, interest rates have more than doubled since 2020. For a 30-year fixed-rate mortgageAverage interest rates these days are in the mid 6% to 7% range. So […]
Some US states expand low-interest loan programs for farms and businesses
On the first business day of the new year, Missouri Treasurer Vivek Malek began accepting applications for approximately $120 million in state-subsidized, low-interest loans to small businesses, farmers, and affordable housing developers. Within six hours, Marek had so many requests for funding that she had to close her application. “The demand is huge and that's […]