{"id":991,"date":"2013-07-21T15:49:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T20:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=991"},"modified":"2013-07-21T15:49:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T20:49:03","slug":"hope-for-homeowners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/21\/hope-for-homeowners\/","title":{"rendered":"HOPE FOR HOMEOWNERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interest rates have risen\u00a0 about 1% in the past few months and most folks who were going to refinance have done so.\u00a0 So the banks still need to make money, so will need to increase loan originations.\u00a0 To do so, those lenders could ease credit standards away from over-stringent ones to ensure the greatest number of qualified buyers to have access to mortgage interest.\u00a0 Tell your clients rising interest rates are not necessarily bad news\u00a0 for real estate if rising interest rates are balanced with OPENING CREDIT TO MORE CUSTOMERS.\u00a0 We&#8217;re hopeful &#8211; and it&#8217;s more than a glimmer &#8211; that if the economy can recover as much as it has under tight credit conditions, it may do even better as credit steadily returns to normal.\u00a0 All of this from NAR (National Association of Realtors) president, Gary Thomas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interest rates have risen\u00a0 about 1% in the past few months and most folks who were going to refinance have done so.\u00a0 So the banks still need to make money, so will need to increase loan originations.\u00a0 To do so, those lenders could ease credit standards away from over-stringent ones to ensure the greatest number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}