The Mortgage Bankers Association reported a large drop in mortgage applications last week, though the drop was driven heavily by a 48% drop in the interest rate sensitive refinance applications after mortgage rates broke their down trend the week before..
Topics: Adjustable Rate Mortgage, Fixed Rate Mortgage, freddie mac, housing market, Mortgage, Mortgage Bankers Association, Mortgage loan, mortgage rates, mortgages, National Association of Realtors

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The Mortgage Bankers Association reported a drop in refinance applications last week after Fixed Rate Mortgage (FRM) rates rose more than three-tenths of a percent and Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey also showed an increase in rates,...
Topics: Adjustable Rate Mortgage, Fixed Rate Mortgage, freddie mac, housing market, housing statistics, Mortgage, Mortgage Bankers Association, Mortgage loan, mortgage rates, mortgages

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S&P reported another big drop in its Case Shiller Home Price Index, which covers the top 20 metropolitan areas in the US and the Conference Board reported that US consumer confidence fell to a record low. 14 of the 20 cities indexed had annual...
Topics: Case-Shiller Index, Conference Board, Consumer Confidence Index, home prices, Housing, housing market, housing statistics

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Freddie Mac and the Mortgage Bankers Association are both reporting 30-year rates near 5% and 15-year Fixed Rate Mortgage (FRM) rates below 5% for a second week. Buyers have responded aggressively to the lower rates, with mortgage applications for home...
Topics: Adjustable Rate Mortgage, Financial Services, Fixed Rate Mortgage, freddie mac, housing statistics, Mortgage, Mortgage Bankers Association, Mortgage loan, mortgage rates, mortgages, National Association of Realtors

{"title":"Interest rates at 37-year low","post_url":"http:\/\/news.tom-hanna.com\/?p=725","feed_url":"http:\/\/news.tom-hanna.com\/?feed=rss2","author":"tomhanna","date":"2008-12-28 13:48:49","summary":"Freddie Mac and the Mortgage Bankers Association are both reporting 30-year rates near 5% and 15-year Fixed Rate Mortgage (FRM) rates below 5% for a second week. Buyers have responded aggressively to the lower rates, with mortgage applications for home..."}

The Mortgage Bankers Association and Freddie Mac both reported good news for those needing to refinance mortgages and those with resetting ARMs with the MBAA reporting an average 15-year Fixed Rate Mortgage (FRM) rate below 5% and Freddie Mac reporting a.
Topics: Financial Services, Fixed Rate Mortgage, freddie mac, housing market, housing statistics, Mortgage, Mortgage Bankers Association, mortgage market, mortgage rates, mortgages

{"title":"Mortgage rates below 5%","post_url":"http:\/\/news.tom-hanna.com\/?p=723","feed_url":"http:\/\/news.tom-hanna.com\/?feed=rss2","author":"tomhanna","date":"2008-12-18 21:56:42","summary":"The Mortgage Bankers Association and Freddie Mac both reported good news for those needing to refinance mortgages and those with resetting ARMs with the MBAA reporting an average 15-year Fixed Rate Mortgage (FRM) rate below 5% and Freddie Mac reporting a."}