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Today is “Fed Day” and it’s widely anticipated that we will see our first increase to the Fed Funds rate in years.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen is expected to announce an increase of 0.25% to the Fed Funds rate following the wrap up of today’s FOMC meeting around 11:00 PST.
Mortgage rates have been very volatile today with the Fed highly anticipated to increase the Fed Funds rate on Wednesday.
Here are some of the economic indicators that may impact the direction of mortgage rates that are scheduled to be released this week:
Visit here for a complete FHA guide including current FHA loan limits for homes located in Washington state.
HUD has just announced FHA loan limits for 2016. Loan amounts were increased for King County, Pierce County, Snohomish County, Clark County and Skamania County.
All other counties have the same loan limits as they did in 2015.
2016 FHA loan limits for King, Pierce and Snohomish Counties are the same as 2016 Conforming High Balance loan limits.
Here is a complete list of FHA loan limits for all counties in Washington:
I apologize for not getting this post done yesterday as I typically do. Last week, I was in Nashville attending the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Independent Mortgage Bankers Conference. It wrapped up on Friday which gave us some time to visit with my son who currently lives there. Our flight home Sunday afternoon was cancelled, which meant my sister-in-law and I had the pleasure of spending most of yesterday on flights to get back home to Seattle. Just for fun, I thought I’d share a pic I took of Minnie Pearl’s hat and shoes, which are on display at the Ryman Auditorium, home of the original Grand Ole Opry.
Redfin has unveiled their online home valuation estimating tool called (ready…) “Redfin Estimate”.
I’m doing some quick comparisons and from what I can tell so far by checking out homes in my West Seattle neighborhood, Redfin seems to offer more accurate home value estimates than Zillow’s Zestimates.
