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  • Mortgage Rates Rise Ahead of FOMC Meeting and Treasury Auctions

    Reports from fellow mortgage professionals indicate lender rate sheets to be worse than Friday. The par 30 year conventional rate mortgage has risen to the 4.875% to 5.125% range for well qualified consumers.These rates are the most aggressive in the mortgage market, only very well qualified consumers will have access to these borrowing costs. To secure a par rate you must have a FICO credit score of 740 or higher, a loan to value at 80% or less. These quotes also assume the borrower is willing to pay all closing costs including an estimated one point loan origination/discount/broker fee. Your mortgage professional should be able to provide you with a breakeven analysis to determine the optimal fee vs interest rate. If you didn’t follow our LOCK advice from last week, that means you are still floating today. While lenders were likely conservative today, I am still favoring locking in loans. . ...
  • Mortgage Rates Improve Following Fed Statement

    The secondary mortgage market went on quite a ride yesterday! Following a weaker than expected 5 year Treasury note auction, market participants hurriedly sold their fixed income investments ahead of the FOMC statement. This led to MBS falling below the recent range and a few lender reprices for the worse. However, following the release of the Fed statement, Treasuries rallied, the dollar recovered losses, and stocks sold off. When all was said and done MBS managed to close the day near the upper end of the current trading range, allowing lenders to reprice for the better, keeping mortgage rates in the same stable range they've in over the last few weeks. ...
 

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Mortgage Rates:
  • 30 Yr FRM 3.90%
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  • 15 Yr FRM 3.26%
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  • Jumbo 30 Year Fixed 4.15%
MBS Prices:
  • 30YR FNMA 4.5 106-17 (-0-03)
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  • 30YR FNMA 5.0 107-32 (-0-01)
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  • 30YR FNMA 5.5 108-31 (0-01)
Recent Housing Data:
  • Mortgage Apps -1.01%
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  • Refinance Index 0.83%
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  • NAHB Builder Confidence 16.00%
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