Charlie Faust - Guild Mortgage

01/23/2019

Informal meet-up with my realtor friend Maureen on the evening of Thursday, January 31 -

Maureen Vojta Hotchkiss

Do you have a friend, family member, co-worker who is planning to purchase their first home? Or, if you know someone who hasn't purchased or sold a home for a while and is feeling rusty about the process, please encourage them to join us for our home buying information session 1/31, 7pm at the Little Store, 8998 SW Leahy Rd, Portland. Charlie Faust with Guild Mortgage will also be there to discuss various financing options. Light refreshments served along with a no host wine/beer bar. RSVP: ph/text 971-344-0475, email: [email protected]. Please share this with anyone you think may be interested.

01/09/2018

New tax law - many Oregonians who itemize no longer will. The standard deduction is nearly doubling and there are new limits on the amount of state income tax and property tax that's deductible. I'm not saying you'll pay more or less tax - just that the amount of the items a lot of people have deducted (mortgage interest, state income tax, property tax) no longer will matter in a lot of cases.

10/13/2017

In case you are paraskevidekatriaphobic, you really shouldn't be....

How fear of a number became one of history's longest-running memes.

09/22/2017

How many "million dollar zip codes" does Portland have?

Surging home prices in the US have made homeownership unaffordable for many, especially millennials.

09/14/2017

This singles out Portland for growth in rent for houses but says apartment rents have fallen here. Doesn't seem like it...

Zillow finds paucity of inventory is driving rents up.

05/30/2017

Check out the areas where prices are rising fastest --

We crunched numbers from the Regional Multiple Listing Service to find the 15 metro ZIP codes where prices climbed the most over the past year.

05/25/2017

It's true -- 1 percent down. Wow.

Guild Mortgage announced a new nationwide 1% down mortgage product to cater to the upcoming surge in Millennial homebuyers. To make the down payment so low, the borrower’s 1% down will be combined with a 2% grant from the lender. While it’s not the first lender to roll out a 1% down, there are a cou...