(NEW HOPE, PA) Greater New Hope Chamber of Commerce presents the 29th Annual New Hope Arts and Crafts Festival on Saturday, September 23 and Sunday, September 24, 2023, at New Hope - Solebury High School, 180 W. Bridge Street, in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Over 160 juried fine artists and craftspeople will exhibit using media such as oil paintings, watercolors, pastels, sculpture, fine and fun jewelry, ceramics, works in wood, fiber, furniture, wearable art, glass art, photography, outsider art and more. Festivities will also include live music all weekend long, food trucks, kids activities, hand-ons demonstrations and more.
While rates continue higher, from South Carolina comes, “I just got 30 minutes of cardio trying to pick up an ice cube off the kitchen floor.” Plenty of folks on the East Coast are dealing with other kinds of ice (we all know how 2 inches of snow grinds Atlanta to a halt), or may be hunkered down watching Kevin Costner in “Yellowstone” growl his way through the script like he has marbles in his mouth. Meanwhile, digital banker Milo has plans to launch the first-ever crypto mortgage, making it easier for crypto investors to utilize their digital assets to obtain U.S. real estate. “Consumers will now be able to pledge their Bitcoin to purchase property and qualify for a low interest rate 30-year crypto mortgage.” In other money news, broker comp is shifting. loanDepot sent a note out to its brokers increasing LD’s maximum Broker compensation threshold from $25,000 to $50,000, now available and will apply to all branch locations tied to
As freezing temperatures continue on in the Midwest and Northeast, keeping people inside, I doubt if there is a single person in the United States who doesn’t know someone who has tested positive for the Omicron variant, or knows someone who knows someone. I went to the bank yesterday but the branch was closed due to staffing absences! While we deal with this variant and wait for the next one, Michigan’s Victoria D. passed along, “The CDC says it’s not omicron unless it comes from the Omicronne Region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling COVID.” Staff shortages and winter storms have grounded flights just as airlines ramped up schedules. And in an overlap between housing policy and disasters, do you think building affordable housing, when the Federal Government demands it, is easy? It isn’t. Even replacing houses that were lost in dozens of disasters is an uphill battle. For example, only a handful of the 980 home owners who lost the
As freezing temperatures continue on in the Midwest and Northeast, keeping people inside, I doubt if there is a single person in the United States who doesn’t know someone who has tested positive for the Omicron variant, or knows someone who knows someone. I went to the bank yesterday but the branch was closed due to staffing absences! While we deal with this variant and wait for the next one, Michigan’s Victoria D. passed along, “The CDC says it’s not omicron unless it comes from the Omicronne Region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling COVID.” Staff shortages and winter storms have grounded flights just as airlines ramped up schedules. And in an overlap between housing policy and disasters, do you think building affordable housing, when the Federal Government demands it, is easy? It isn’t. Even replacing houses that were lost in dozens of disasters is an uphill battle. For example, only a handful of the 980 home owners who lost the
Today is about the day when you have to think twice about wishing anyone, “Happy New Year.” Okay, maybe tomorrow. There’s a lot of news out there to start 2022, including mortgage news. Moves by Freddie, Fannie, FHA, and VA have a ripple effect on the jumbo and non-Agency market as well. We were reminded of this yesterday when Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, via their conservator FHFA, publicized April changes to their loan level price adjustments. Freddie announced “…changes to our Credit Fees in Price for super conforming mortgages and mortgages secured by second homes. We are making these updates in light of the significant increase in the 2022 loan limits and under the guidance of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). These updated fees are effective for mortgages with settlement dates on and after April 1, 2022.” Freddie & Fannie’s change, although the industry has nearly three months to adapt pricing, is a huge adjustm