Mortgages and Real Estate
 The past week's mortgage rates, monitored by Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), for 30 year fixed-rate mortgages remained below 5.00 percent at 4.83 percent and an average 0.7 ...
 TransUnion's results of its analysis of trends in the mortgage industry for the third quarter of 2009 and the associated impact on the U.S. consumer was culled from approximately 27 million anonym...
The past week's mortgage rates, monitored by Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), for 30 year fixed-rate mortgages remained below 5.00 percent at 4.91 percent and an average 0.7 ...
 If you are one of the many people who want to buy a home but just can't close prior to December 1, 2009, then you are in luck. Congress has finally extended the first time home buyer tax credit i...
The past week's mortgage rates, monitored by Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), for 30 year fixed-rate mortgages dropped below 5.00 percent again to 4.98 percent and an average...
The past week's mortgage rates, monitored by Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), for 30 year fixed-rate mortgages average 5.03 percent and an average 0.7 point for the week endi...
The past week's mortgage rates, monitored by Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), for 30 year fixed-rate mortgages average 5.00 percent for the week ending October 22nd. This is ...
 President Obama announced the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan on February 18, 2009, a comprehensive plan to stabilize the housing market by supporting low mortgage rates, providing alternat...
The past week's mortgage rates, monitored by Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), for 30 year fixed rate mortgages averaged 4.92 percent for the week ending October 15th. This is...
The past week's mortgage rates, monitored by Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), for 30 year fixed-rate mortgages average 4.87 percent for the week ending October 1st. This is a...
 Whether you are a rookie or a seasoned owner, buying a home can be costly and confusing. But new consumer protections can help you better sort out your options. Previously, even if you shopped for the...
The past week's mortgage rates, monitored by Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), for 30 year fixed rate mortgages average 4.94 percent for the week ending October 1st. This is a...
 Home sales in August increased, but at a much slower pace than the previous couple of months. Sales of new one-family houses in August 2009 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 429,000, accord...
The past week's mortgage rates, monitored by Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), for 30 year fixed rate mortgages average 5.04 percent for the week ending September 24th. This i...
The past week's mortgage rates, monitored by Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), for 30 year fixed rate mortgages average 5.04 percent for the week ending September 17th. This i...
Weekly mortgage rates, monitored by Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), for 30 year fixed rate mortgages average 5.07 percent for the week ending September 10th. This is a small dip...
Weekly mortgage rates, monitored by Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), decreased to 5.08 percent for the week ending September 3, 2009. This is a reverse from last week's incre...
 Weekly mortgage rates, monitored by Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), decreased to 5.14 percent for the week ending August 27, 2009. The 30 year fixed rate mortgage average was up...
 The first-time home buyer tax credit may be showing more signs of helping real estate sales recover. Sales of new one-family houses in July 2009 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 433,000, a...
 If you are a first-time home buyer planning to take advantage of the $8,000 tax credit, you are in luck. You can monetize the tax credit to assist you in the purchase of your home. Just remember, the...
 Weekly mortgage rates, monitored by Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), decreased to 5.12 percent for the week ending August 20, 2009. This is the lowest level seen in three months....
 The current tax credit for first time home buyers expires in a few months. If first time home buyers do not close on a home before December 1, 2009, they will not get the tax credit. There have been...
 Freddie Mac's weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS) results have been published, showing 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 5.29 percent with an average 0.7 point for the week ending Aug...
 Whether you have your home equity line of credit (HELOC) through your local credit union or another financial institution, your lender can make changes to your credit line. If you have already been no...
 Freddie Mac's weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS) result have been released, indicating 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 5.22 percent with an average 0.6 point for the week ending Au...
 The goal of the government report card of banks for mortgage companies is to provide increased transparency to the public of the Obama administration's stimulus plan. This first monthly report dis...
 U.S. pending home sales are up for the fifth straight month, the first time in six years, according to the National Association of Realtors.
The Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicato...
 The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development announced the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has implemented changes to its loan modification program to ensure consistency with the...
 Freddie Mac's weekly mortgage rate survey results are in again. This time 30 year fixed rates are up 5 basis points to 5.25 percent while 15 year fixed rates are up to 4.69 percent from 4.68 perc...
 The Internal Revenue Service announced its first successful prosecution related to fraud involving the first-time homebuyer credit and warned taxpayers to beware of this type of scheme. Investigators ...
 The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that the average interest rate on conventional 30-year fixed-rate mortgage loans of $417,000 or less increased by 24 basis points resulting in an average of...
 New home sales took an unexpected surge in June with an estimated 11 percent increase, but has the housing market bottomed out? Most economists think not.
The estimates released by the U.S. Census...
 Existing-home sales rose for the third straight month in a row with inventory easing and home prices declining less severely in June, according to the National Association of Realtors. Existing-homes ...
 Mortgage rates are up a little this week, ending a 3 week trend of decreasing rates. Freddie Mac's weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey estimates that 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.20 pe...
 The US Federal Reserve Board has proposed changes to Truth in Lending disclosures intended to improve the information consumers receive concerning closed-end mortgages and home-equity lines of credit ...
 The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s monthly House Price Index estimates that home prices in the United States increased by 0.9 percent on a seasonally-adjusted basis from April to May, 2009. The p...
 Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey shows that 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.14 percent with an average 0.7 point for the week ending July 16, 2009, down from last week when it ...
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