Mortgage interest rates lowest in 12 months

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Freddie Mac released their PMMS report yesterday revealing that mortgage rates are at levels we haven’t seen in a year. This is the sixth week in a row that that Prime Market Mortgage Survey has reported rates trending lower. [Read more…]

Freddie Mac PMMS “Lower than expected” Mortgage Rates!

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This morning Freddie Mac released their weekly Prime Mortgage Market Survey report with a title that I couldn’t agree with more: “Lower-than-expected mortgage rates offer refinance opportunity“.

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Freddie Mac Reports Rates Continue Lower for 4th Week in a Row

Freddie Mac’s PMMS Report reveals that conforming mortgage rates continued to trend lower last week with the 30 year conventional averaging 3.79% with 0.6 points.

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Freddie Mac PMMS Reports Lowest Mortgage Rates in Three Months

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Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey reports that mortgage rates continued to trend lower last week with the 30 year fixed conventional mortgage averaging 3.81 with 0.6 points. [Read more…]

Freddie Mac PMMS Reports Mortgage Rates Under 4

Jan 7 2016 Freddie Mac PMMSFreddie Mac’s Prime Mortgage Market Survey released today reports that mortgage rates for the 30 year fixed conforming averaged just below 4% last week. [Read more…]

What May Impact Rates this week: December 21, 2015

Dad_SantaThis is a short week with the Christmas holiday rapidly approaching. With many traders being on vacation for the holidays, we will most likely see additional volatility through the end of this year. Next week will be a short holiday week as well.

Here are some of the economic indicators scheduled to be released this week that may impact the direction of mortgage interest rates:

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How the Fed impacts Mortgage Rates [LIVE MORTGAGE RATE POST]

20140504_210758Today 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.

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What May Impact Mortgage Rates this week, December 8, 2015

2015-12-04 12.28.54I 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.

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