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Friday’s Rates May 2, 2008

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 a sales price of $500,000 and a loan amount of $400,000.  This scenario includes reserves (taxes & insurance) not being waived.   Rates quoted are priced based on a 45 day [...]

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). [...]

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 [...]

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 March 14, 2008

I’m going to put on my thinking cap for how I’ll do future rate post…I’ll have to play around with this as rates are becoming more challenging to provide a broad quote. These are historic times and I’m glad to be experiencing this first hand…maybe I’m being positive because it’s Friday! [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mortgage rates heading up February 15, 2008

Mortgage rates continue their trend upward and they don’t look like they’re coming back down soon. This market is still very volatile and as I always, I encourage you to lock and not float your interest rates if you a closing within the next 4-6 weeks. If you’re hunkering for more [...]

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