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What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week : May 31, 2011

Mortgage markets improved last week ahead of Memorial Day and a 3-day weekend. Bond pricing ending the week higher, pushing conforming mortgage rates down for the 5th week out of [...]

Home Affordability Still Soaring; New Records Reached

The National Association of Home Builders reports that Q1 2011 Home Opportunity Index reached an all-time high for the second straight quarter last [...]

Home Price Index Shows Values Down 19 Percent From Peak

Home values dropped for the sixth straight month in March 2011, according to the Federal Home Finance Agency’s Home Price Index. The Home Price Index is a government-sponsored home value [...]

New Home Sales Increase For The Second Straight Month

Sales of newly-built homes surprised Wall Street, jumping 7 percent to an seasonally-adjusted, annualized 323,000 units last [...]

Memorial Day Messes With Mortgage Rates

Mortgage rates across the state are near year-to-date lows, but locking them in this week may be difficult. [...]

What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week : May 23, 2011

Mortgage markets were unchanged last week, despite improving on four of five days. Economic data was worse-than-expected almost across the board, but neither FHA nor conforming mortgage rates [...]

Distressed Homes Now Selling At A 20 Percent Discount

The housing market recovery stalled last month. At least [...]

Fed Minutes Put The Heat On Mortgage Rates To Rise

The Federal Reserve released its April 2011 Federal Open Market Committee meeting minutes Wednesday. In the hours since, mortgage markets have [...]

Building Permits Fade Faster Than Expected

Single-family housing starts fell 5 percent as compared to March 2011, and 30 percent as compared to April one year ago. [...]

Home Builders Seeing More Sales Today; Fewer Sales Tomorrow

Home builder confidence can’t shake its range, according to the National Association of Home Builders. The group’s monthly Housing Market Index put May’s builder confidence reading at a level of [...]