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Housing Market Insight – July 5th Edition

by Ryan Hinricher | July 5, 2010

The most recent week’s housing news offered critical data regarding Mortgage Purchase Applications, direction on mortgage rates, Pending Home Sales, and information you don’t want to miss about employment trends and mortgage delinquencies. Also the government approved the extension of the home-buyer tax credit closings. Looking for direction in the housing market? This crop [...]

Housing

Housing Market Summary

by Ryan Hinricher | June 28, 2010

Last week offered real estate market news that many of us wish we never heard. The overall sentiment being bearish and offering us a glimpse of what a post-tax credit real estate market looks like. In this article you’ll start seeing emerging trends in New Home Sales, Existing Home Sales, Mortgage Purchase Applications, positive news [...]

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Interest Rates

Interest Rates Climb to 8-Month High

by Ryan Hinricher | April 12, 2010

Last week’s Freddie Mac mortgage survey pegged the 30-year fixed mortgage rate at 5.21%, the highest since August of last year. While rates are still relatively low, the increases in the last few weeks will likely mark the end of record low rates. The timing of the increases over the last couple weeks falls in [...]

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The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: Mar. 20, 2010 Edition

by Dean Ouellette | March 20, 2010

1 ) Famous blonde financial pundit expects double dip in U.S. housing market – There are two trains of thought out there. The first is that the market has tanked and the banks are smarter now, and will not release enough properties to cause another housing dip any time soon. Then there is the group [...]

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The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: Feb. 27, 2010 Edition

by Dean Ouellette | February 27, 2010

1 ) Real Estate Investors – Don’t Be Seduced By Rickety Cash Flow – Good article for investors who are obsessed only with cash flow. This is one of my favorite topics I like to read Jeff Brown write about. His opinion always seems to be a little different than most opinions on cash flow. [...]

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The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: Feb. 20, 2010 Edition

by Dean Ouellette | February 20, 2010

1 ) 7 Hours on Facebook? – Where do you spend most of your time when you are on the computer? If you are like most of America you spend a large amount of time on Facebook. And that time is growing! Just look at these numbers, doesn’t it make sense to go where they [...]

Mortgages & Lending

Will Interest Rates Start to Climb Soon? Time to Get Off the Fence

by Florence Foote | December 15, 2009

It is no secret that money has been exceptionally cheap this year, provided you can qualify for a loan. Rates this low have not been common for half a century. But, according to a recent article in the New York Times, today’s “super-low rates are not likely to last much longer.” You will be excused [...]

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Mortgage Interest Rates: Where Are They Heading?

by Peter Giardini | September 22, 2009

I was listening to a financial talk show on the radio the other day; the host was going nuts over an upcoming Treasury auction where over $140 Billion in 2, 5, and 7 year notes were going to be auctioned. This would represent the most auctioned at one time ever, and would be on top of $60+ Billion in notes auctioned the week before.

This got me to thinking about how much debt was out there and ultimately where current mortgage rates were and what direction they were headed in. Here is what I found…

The State of Debt

In my search I ran across this very sobering set of statistics about who holds the most US debt… take a look at the data, and if you’re not concerned about where interest rates and inflation are heading, then you must be asleep.

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A Different Take on this Week’s Mortgage Market Data

by Steve Heideman | April 6, 2009

A little bit of a different take on this week’s mortgage market data. Gotta change it up sometimes ya know?

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Are we Moving Further and Further from those 4.5% Mortgage Rates we’ve Been Hearing About?

by Steve Heideman | February 2, 2009

Consumer confidence reached an all-time low and 100,000 Americans were issued layoff notices last week, each playing a role in the mortgage market’s relative worsening. For the third consecutive week, mortgage rates rose and average loan fees increased, too. Amid all of the negative economic news, however, there were two bright spots worth identifying and [...]

Mortgage Rates, Geithner, China and You

by Steve Heideman | January 27, 2009

Mortgage markets deteriorated last week on the heels of weak economic data and uninspiring corporate earnings. Mortgage rates rose for the second week in a row. They’re now measurably higher than the low point set 3 weeks ago. For mortgage rate shoppers, though, last week’s most important stories weren’t necessarily last week’s most reported stories; [...]

Commentary

Would I, Could I, in a House?

by Meghan Busch | December 21, 2008

With the Fed cutting the Fed Funds Rate to, er… 0 to .25% (Free money—Wee!) and mortgage interest rates and housing prices falling like St. Nick down the flue—well, not quite as quickly, and for the mortgage interest rates, not quite as steep—somebody’s gotta take advantage. Could it be me? I’m not a homeowner. Right [...]

Mortgage Rates, The Economy and You

by Steve Heideman | November 17, 2008

In Frank Sinatra’s famous tune “That’s Life”, he penned the lyrics: “That’s life, that’s what all the people say. You’re riding high in April, Shot down in May” I am going to change them to “You’re riding high at 4:36pm on Tuesday, Shot down at 3pm Thursday” Lame intro–I know–but my point is made. The [...]