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US mortgage rates dropped for the third consecutive week. The 30-year rate dropped to 4.83% from 4.91%, the lowest since May, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said today. The average 15-year rate fell to...
One of the big mortgage stories of the financial crisis is the growth of FHA loans as a replacement to conventional mortgage loans and as a replacement to sub-prime loans. According to data from...
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending October 23, 2009. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan...
These are some sensible rules for first-time homebuyers or even existing owners who want to buy another house. My favorite: the eight hour rule. If you can't get a good eight hours sleep a night...
Up to 26% of U.S. homeowners who stop paying their mortgage may be doing so intentionally, not because they can't make the payments but because they don't want to put money into a house that's...
Many adjustable-rate borrowers are asking themselves if they should refinance to lock in a good rate for the long term. Or, should they keep their ARM's current rate that's even lower right now,...
Jumbo mortgages became more expensive and harder to come by as the nation's credit crisis deepened. That might be starting to change.
One example provided by the article is Bank of America which...
Fannie Mae -- which controls nearly half of the mortgages in the country -- will launch a new program in April to help those who are self-employed or have bad credit take advantage of the refinance...
Freddie Mac's weekly survey says that the rate on a 30 year fixed rate loan has fallen below 5% for the first time ever. But you may have trouble finding a rate this low.
Applications for mortgage refinancing tripled in early December on news that the Federal Reserve will buy up to $600 billion of mortgage debt. A mortgage expert describes the pros and cons of...
In a striking admission, Paulson said that buying up distressed mortgage assets "is not the most effective way" to use government funding.Purchasing these so-called "toxic" assets was once the...