Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight Director James B. Lockhart announced yesterday that the maximum 2008 conforming loan limit for single-family mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) will remain at the 2007 level of $417,000 for one-unit properties for most of the U.S.
The conforming loan limit determines the […]

FOMC Chairman, Ben Bernanke, is scheduled to speak on the Fed’s new talking points in just over an hour and a half.  I would expect the Chairman to say something like inflation is their primary concern (duh) and that they are slightly concerned still with revelations in the credit markets. At some point we will […]