James Grandy Mortgage Loan Officer NMLS# 2077616

05/21/2025

04/24/2025

Whether you're already basking in the pride of homeownership or on the cusp of taking that pivotal step, we have something tailor-made for you. Introd

04/08/2025

National news and local views for the week

10/16/2024

Only the freshest listings here! All these homes in 23462 have gone on the market in the last 5 days (as of Wednesday, October 16th). Mary Boling, Realtor

09/24/2024

The Federal Reserve is far from the only game in town when it comes to exerting influence on interest rates.  That's a loaded statement, of course, considering we spent last week explaining why mortgage rates often go the  opposite direction from a Fed rate cut/hike. ....

09/24/2024

Today I leave Illinois, with the world’s largest corn maze, and head to Nebraska, with the world’s largest ball of stamps, things that make life interesting. (Nebraska is also the source of CliffsNotes, among many things, invented in 1958.) Regardless of where I travel, regulation and its cost t...

09/24/2024

Monday's trading session offered some hope that the post-Fed correction was losing steam, but purely from a technical standpoint.  All we really know at times like this is that bonds were keen to rally heading into last week's Fed announcement and had generally been selling ever sin...