Mortgage Insurance is very common for today's Santa Cruz home buyer. Mortgage Insurance is a special insurance banks put in place to avoid losses in case of a borrower defaulting on their loan. The most common time mortgage insurance required is used inSanta Cruz is when a borrower comes ...

Imagine you own your home in Santa Cruz outright, or have a very small mortgage on it. Let's say your property is worth $850,000. You would love to buy your next Santa Cruz dream home which is valued at $1,000,000 but to do so you would ...

Did you know that for qualified buyers, you can get a Santa Cruz home loan without monthly mortgage insurance payments but still put less than 20% down?  In fact, you can even get a conventional loan in Santa Cruz, with no mortgage insurance, with just 3% or 5% down ...

Recently I was asked if there is a loan available in Santa Cruz for replacing an old and run down manufactured home in a park with a brand new unit.

In this specific case, the borrower owned an old manufactured home in Santa Cruz (Aptos, actually) which he owed a ...

Good news everyone - Santa Cruz FHA loan limits are back on their way up!  Recently, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a new schedule of FHA loan limits for 2019.  Most areas in the country will experience an increase in loan limits in the coming ...

With Santa Cruz Lending Group P/B Mason McDuffie Mortgage, veterans can buy, refinance, and renovate under one, zero-down* loan program. With the VA Renovation Loan Program, you can include the total renovation cost for improvements in addition to the purchase price or refinance of the house!

Renovation funds ...