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Dennis Norman According to Freddie Macs weekly mortgage market survey mortgage rates decreased slightly for the week ending August 6, 2009 from the prior week. The survey shows 30 year fixed rate mortgages averaging 5.22% with 0.6% in fees and points, down from 5.25% the week before. Last year at this time, the 30 year [...] Dennis Norman According to Freddie Macs weekly mortgage market survey mortgage rates increased slightly this week from the prior week. The survey shows 30 year fixed rate mortgages averaging 5.25% with 0.7% in fees and points, up from 5.20% the week before. Last year at this time, the 30 year rate averaged 6.52%. Rates on 15 [...] Dennis Norman According to Freddie Macs weekly mortgage market survey mortgage rates increased slightly this week from the prior week. The survey shows 30 year fixed rate mortgages averaging 5.20% with 0.7% in fees and points, up from 5.14% the week before. Last year at this time, the 30 year rate averaged 6.63%. Rates on 15 [...] By: Dennis Norman Yesterday, Bankrate, Inc. issued their weekly mortgage interest rate report showing that mortgage rates after rising to almost 6% have retreated in this past week with 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaging 5.76%, down from 5.95% last week, with an average of 0.43% in discount and origination fees. The report shows 15-year fixed-rate mortgages were also lower this week at an average of [...] By: Dennis Norman Today, Bankrate, Inc. issued their weekly mortgage interest rate report showing that mortgage rates jumped this week with 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaging 5.65%, up from 5.45% last week, with an average of 0.44% in discount and origination fees. The report shows 15-year fixed-rate mortgages were also higher this week at an average of 5.06%, up from 4.86% last [...] Dennis Norman By: Dennis Norman This past Thursday the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1728, the “Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act.” The bill, introduced by Rep. Bradley Miller (N.C.) sets out to “amend the Truth in Lending Act to reform consumer mortgage practice and provide accountability for such practices, to provide certain minimum standards for [...] By: Dennis Norman Four days ago on the Real Estate Consumers News blog I wrote a post stating I did not think low interest rates will prove to be long-term fix to the housing market and in fact nothing more than short-term “life support”. Today CNNMoney.Com published an article which stated “Unfortunately, the low interest rates [...] By: Dennis Norman This morning the National Association of REALTORS(R) released data for existing home sales for November. The numbers show sales of existing homes down 8.6% nationwide versus October and down 10.6% versus last year. The Northeast saw the biggest decline in sales being down 12.0% versus last month and 18.0% versus last year. The west region only [...] |
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