Jason M. Keith's (jkeith) Blog

This is a great cause!!  I'm looking forward to joining in.  Being a veteran myself I know this will show the troops we do care.  I've disapbled comments please visit:  Via Donna Foerster, Metro Denver Real Estate Agent (Keller Williams Action Realty): Our 3rd Annual RED Day Event: Support Our T...

Tooting my own horn I received a phone call from 5280 magazine and was told I was selected as one of the top loan officers in Denver with customer satisfaction!  Wow this really made my day.  The selection process came from a survey done by Five Star Professionals.  I'm very excited as I learn mo...

Market Comment - Week of May 2nd, 2011 Mortgage bond prices rose slightly last week pushing mortgage interest rates lower. The Fed meeting resulted in no interest rate adjustments at this time despite continued talk of inflation fears. The data was mixed. Durable goods orders came in higher than...

Friday Mortgage Wrap Up Good news this week as inflation is not really showing up in the core PCE index - the Fed's measure of inflation.  It came in just under 1%.  If you are a long time reader, you know that inflation is the main force that moves rates up or down.  For this reason, and with th...

Market Comment - Week of April 25th, 2011 Mortgage bond prices rose slightly last week pushing mortgage interest rates lower. The data was mixed. Housing starts, existing home sales, and leading economic indicators data were all higher than expected which didn't bode well for mortgage bonds. How...

Don't forget, FHA increased their MIP! FHA Reminder, Increase in MIP! Effective on case numbers assigned on or after April 18th, 2011,  FHA will increase the annual MIP by .25% (up-front will stay at 1%) For example, on a $200,000 loan amount, where the borrower put the minimum down(3.5%): Differ...

Market Comment - Week of April 18th, 2011 Mortgage bond prices rose last week pushing mortgage interest rates lower. The data was mixed. The headline retail sales figure was slightly weaker than expected while the ex-autos figure was higher than expected. Producer prices rose 0.7%, weaker than t...

Friday Mortgage Wrap Up This week saw some good news as far as rates are concerned and we had a small drop in rates as a result.  But if you look at the overall trading channel for mortgage backed securities (how yours and my mortgages are bought and sold),  you'll see a steady upward trend firml...

Why are credit scores so different?  Do you feel like  you have the box that is your credit but can't guess what's inside? What a great question and I get this asked all the time.  A borrower will ask to not have the credit pulled and that they already went on line to XYZ Free score and give me a...

Market Comment - Week of April 11th, 2011 Mortgage bond prices fell last week pushing mortgage interest rates higher. Stocks continued to show strength throughout the week. The DOW was generally positive which didn't help mortgage bonds. There were very few economic releases. The Fed minutes fro...