NEW YORK – May 8, 2017 – Homeowners with a bad credit score can expect to pay double – in some cases, even nearly triple – what owners with solid credit pay for their home insurance, according to a new state-by-state study by insuranceQuotes. Policyholders with fair credit pay an average of 36 percent […]
Defying Predictions, Mortgage Rates Are Dropping—Here’s Why
By Clare Trapasso | Apr 21, 2017 Anxious would-be home buyers have been watching mortgage interest rates finally begin ticking up again in 2017, after years of historical lows. And when the Federal Reserve raised the short-term interest rate in March, the conventional wisdom was that mortgage rates would follow suit—as they typically do. But that’s […]