Friday, October 28, 2011

Mortgage Rates Continued to Remain Steady This Past Week

Home mortgage rate averages were mixed this past week with fixed rates either dropping slightly or remaining flat while the 5 year treasury indexed ARM average inched higher according to Freddie Mac's weekly rate survey. The 30 year average fell 0.01% from 4.11% down to 4.10% with 0.8 points and the 15 year average remained unchanged at 3.08% with 0.7 points. The 5 year ARM average moved from 3.01% to 3.08% with 0.5 points.

Snapshot of today's pricing (8:29 am EST - rates subject to change without notice)

2 comments:

Monique Hubb said...

When you talk of 95 mortgage, it is the ratio of loan to value in the mortgage. Value is the selling price of the property. The loan amount is 95% of the price. Thus, if the price of a property is $150,000, it will need a $142,500 mortgage. The home buyer will just have to pay for $7,500. With that in mind, banks that cater to housing loans will not be encouraged in lending money. Lenders prefer that a home buyer would invest more in a property. It gives them the impression that the borrower is more stable and would never think of walking away from his payables.

CarlMortgage said...

Good post.
It's very useful.
Thanks for sharing.

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