Median income in those areas is increasing, and there have been some interesting investments made by companies like Intel (7 billion in Chandler I believe).

The 3% mortgages have MORE servicing value for the opposite reason, these ones aren't likely to be refinanced any time soon, and the market thinks they are less likely to be paid off via home sale to boot.This isn't about your or my crystal ball predictions for inflation and interest rates, this is about billions of dollars of real life bets being placed on Wall Street and by big banks.There's another reason big banks are valuing these low rate mortgage pools: Thanks to some deregulation that happened, they get to use the escrow accounts as "deposits" for the purpose of fractional reserve banking.

I will enact the first billion dollar jackpot every month, collecting hundreds of billions from around the world while only paying out a billion.

There's a reason these companies are million to billion dollar companies. 

Any forum you put out there is going to get the same question asked 8 billion times, because a)people are lazy, b)people don't think the stock answer applies to their situation, c)people have a variation they didn't see in other replies, d)people don't know it's already been asked.

I worked for Wells Fargo, once upon a life, if you can't pay, you may lose your property.Go with a small community bank (under a 3 billion in assets size).

Highlights: Single-family home sales were basically unchanged with a total of 7,696 units sold;On a year-to-date basis, single-family home sales are up 2.7 percent;Total property sales fell 0.9 percent to 9,139 units;Total dollar volume declined 1.7 percent to $2.6 billion;At $230,538, the single-family home median price rose 2.5 percent to a record high;The single-family home average price declined 0.8 percent to the second highest level of all time, $300,178 (the highest was $302,599 in June 2015);Single-family homes months of inventory climbed to a 3.7-months supply versus 3.2 months a year earlier;Townhome/condominium sales fell 5.8 percent with the average price down 2.4 percent to $197,937 and the median price up 2.1 percent to $164,450;Leases of single-family homes were up 4.8 percent with rents up slightly to $1,883;Leases of townhomes/condominiums soared 12.9 percent with rents down 5.6 percent to $1,658.http://www.har.com/content/newsroom

While Democrats have defended the Bureau’s structure and pointed to the more than $11 billion returned to consumers that the Bureau has deemed financially harmed, the CFPB has been harshly criticized by Republicans who believe it to be an overreaching agency whose power is unchecked.The court’s ruling noted the power of the Bureau’s director, stating that, “In short, when measured in terms of unilateral power, the Director of the CFPB is the single most powerful official in the entire U.S.

Houston is the second largest new-home market in the nation.Facebook Adding to Alliance Texas CampusFORT WORTH (Dallas Business Journal) – Facebook is adding two data halls to its $1 billion data center campus in the AllianceTexas development.DPR Construction, which is behind the $1 billion campus, filed two building permits, one for $182.6 million and one for $181.9 million. 

Large development corps will have millions if not billions behind them and then hire staff etc.Homebuilders in many markerts are also developers the hat is kind of interchangeable.