Happy Monday – it’s almost over! Attached are current rates for purchase money mortgages. Pricing is still excellent, and our jumbo pricing is best in market. Note that rates improve ¼% on jumbo loans for customers who autodraft their mortgage from a ST checking account, so we could be at 3.875% on a jumbo 30 […]

The Office of Buildings of the City of Atlanta has increased their Permit Fees. And though the information is just making the rounds on the customer level (that would be the builders and remodelers – aka. taxpayers), the increases were adopted by the City Council last fall, effective October 18, 2011. Very interesting!? Clearly as […]

The results of the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) meeting from Monday January the 22nd has been digested and posted. Information is available on the following website showing proposals.  The neighborhood voice appears to have been heard! http://www.atlanta.k12.ga.us/cms/lib/GA01000924/Centricity/Domain/45/OptionSummaryWriteUp.pdf  

As the economy is slowly picking up steam, so does the remodeling industry. On January 26th Bob Peterson of the National Association of Home Builders, wrote the following: Remodeling Market Index Rises to Five-Year High in Fourth Quarter of 2011 In the fourth quarter of 2011, professional remodelers saw remodeling market conditions rise to their […]