Mortgages

Could The Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Contaminate The Real Estate Market?

By Daniel Lalley / March 14, 2023 /

Last Friday, the world gasped as one of the tech industry’s most prominent banking institutions, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), collapsed under $175 billion in uninsured deposits. This monumental financial failure has only been surpassed in scope by the folding of Washington Mutual, which swiftly led to the financial crisis of 2008. And while we recently…

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Learn Mortgage Strategies in This Free Workshop Tonight

By Candy's Dirt / November 10, 2022 /

It’s not getting any easier to buy a home in Dallas-Fort Worth with rising interest rates, low inventory, and high home prices. That’s why two Dallas real estate experts are teaming up tonight to give homebuyers tools to win in today’s market. Mortgage expert Lisa Peters and Realtor Loren Hall will present “Homebuyers’ Night” at…

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Mortgage Expert Jan McFarlane Celebrates 84 With Her Dearest Clients And Elvis

By Mimi Perez / November 5, 2022 /
(Photo: Mimi Perez for CandyDirt.com)

People have always told me that I need to have a life goal. After meeting her this past September, I have discovered that when I grow up I want to be like Jan McFarlane.  When Jan celebrated her birthday in September she threw herself a birthday bash that has to go down in the record…

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Three Things to Know: Scary Stories Best Told in The Dark

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / October 31, 2022 /

By Ryan Casey Stephens,  FPQP®Special Contributor Happy Halloween reader! Would you like to hear a few ghostly tales? There are unexplained things in this world. Sometimes events occur that are so peculiar they might be best described as … unnatural. Turn off the lights, turn on the flashlight, and let’s shudder through this week’s Three…

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What’s That Moving in The Shadows? Three Things to Know

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / October 24, 2022 /

By Ryan Casey Stephens,  FPQP®Special Contributor In the spooky spirit of the month, October’s been rough thus far. Interest rates are up from the end of September and our 401(k)s are flat or down. In the shifting shadows around the candles and the jack-o-lanterns, the real estate and mortgage landscapes also seem to be taking…

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