Friday’s Rates April 25, 2008
Mortgage bonds have a negative reaction to inflation and we’re seeing high food and oil prices and rates continue to be very volatile…next week, the drama promises to deliver with the FOMC meeting on Tuesday and the Jobs Report on Friday. I know I sound like a broken record…but here goes: THE FED [...]
Friday’s Rates April 18, 2008
Long term fixed conforming rates are slightly improved since this morning…however rates across the board are up compared to last Friday’s rate post. The markets continue to be very volatile and those who play the “floating game” with their rate, may get washed up.
Conforming Mortgage Rates (loan amounts up to $417,000 for 1-unit properties). [...]
Rates for Friday April 11, 2008
With the new credit score based pricing, rates below are based on a 720 credit score. Most mortgage rates are now credit score based. Mortgage rates continue to be very volatile and often change several times a day.
Conforming Mortgage Rates (loan amounts up to $417,000 for 1-unit properties). The [...]
Friday’s Rates April 4, 2008
Rates improved slightly from this morning following the Jobs Report today. With the new credit score based pricing, rates below are based on a 720 credit score. For your personal rate quote, please contact your local Mortgage Professional.
Conforming Mortgage Rates (loan amounts up to $417,000 for 1-unit properties). The conforming rate quote [...]
FHA Jumbo April 1, 2008
I thought it might be helpful to provide some information for you to use for when I quote rates on Friday for the FHA Jumbo mortgage. There are other criteria to be considered beyond looking at the rate. You may not have considered FHA before due to loan limits, now it’s more attractive: [...]
Mortgage Rates on a Good Friday March 21, 2008
I’m not anticipating any rate changes today (but anything could happen in the mortgage world these days) as the markets are closed in observance of Good Friday. Pricing of mortgage rates is definitely going through a limbo phase with the addition of “jumbo-conforming” and “jumbo-FHA”. ARMs are simply not attractive [...]
Friday’s Rates are in Limbo March 7, 2008
We are in “limbo” while we wait for Fannie/Freddie and the lenders to figure out what the pricing will be for the temporary conforming loan limits.
Conforming Mortgage Rates (loan amounts up to $417,000 for 1-unit properties). The conforming rate quote below is based on owner occupied, “full doc” purchase with minimum credit scores of [...]
New FHA Mortgage Limits March 6, 2008
Hot off the press for single family dwellings, revised FHA Loan Limits:
King County, Snohomish and Pierce Counties
Single Family: $567,500
Two Family: $726,500
Three Family: $878,150
Four Family: $1,091,350
FHA mortgages allow for minimum down payment (roughly 3%) and does require FHA mortgage insurance.
The Wall Street Journal reports that “the [FHA] upper mortgage limits also will apply [...]
Friday’s Rates for Leap Day February 29, 2008
Today, negative economic news caused a significant sell off and traders “leaped” from stocks to the security of bonds, such as mortgage backed securities. Rates have improved by roughly an 0.125% since this morning. Mortgage rates remain highly volatile and (as always) I recommend locking over floating…especially as we get closer [...]
Friday’s Rates February 22, 2008
Conforming Rates: based on a sales price of $500,000 with a loan amount of $400,000 and minimum credit score of 680, full-doc mortgage with reserves (taxes and insurance included in the mortgage payments). Rates are priced based on a 45 day lock and are priced with 1 discount/origination point.
30 Year Fixed: 6.000% (APR [...]
