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Mortgage rates continued to move upwards during the week ended February 28 according to the Primary Mortgage Market Survey report released by Freddie Mac. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) climbed 20 basis points from the average 6.04 rate a week earlier although fees and points declined from 0.6...
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Mortgage rates continued to fall during the week ended January 17 according to the results of the Primary Mortgage Market Survey released by Freddie Mac and, in the case of 30 and 15-year fixed rate mortgages (FRMs) reached the lowest level since July 2005. The 30-year FRM averaged 5.69 percent, down...
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The two mortgage interest rate surveys upon which we report each week showed big changes for long term rates during the week ended December 6 and 7, but the difference in the outcomes was striking. Two of the products tracked by Freddie Mac dropped to new two year lows while the Mortgage Bankers Association...
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Mortgage rates continued to decline by baby steps as reported by Freddie Mac in its Primary Mortgage Market Survey. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 6.20 percent with 0.5 point during the week ended November 21. The previous week it averaged 6.24 percent with 0.4 point. One year ago the...
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Mortgage rates fell last week to their lowest point in nearly six months according to the results of Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended November 1. The average rate for the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) dropped to 6.26 percent with an average 0.4 point from the average...
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Mortgage rates showed substantial declines for the previous week according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey. Similar drops were recorded by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) in its Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ended October 26. Freddie Mac reported that the 30-year fixed...
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Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the previous week showed both long and short term mortgage rates easing off slightly after three straight weeks of rising numbers. The rates reported from the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the same week, however...
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Long term mortgage rates during the previous week did not respond at all to the drop in the Federal Funds Rate announced by the Federal Reserve a little over a week earlier according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS). Shorter term rates did decline several basis points. The 30-year...
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Even before the Federal Reserve's half point rate cut on Tuesday Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey showed another dramatic downturn in both long and short term interest rates for conventional mortgages. The Federal Funds, the rate impacted by the Federal Reserve's action on Tuesday actually...
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Short term mortgage rates which had been rising, sometimes very sharply over the last few weeks fell a bit last week while long term rates were almost unchanged in the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the previous week. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) moved up one basis point from...
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Mortgage rates in general took a fairly substantial dive during the previous week with longer term rates dropping double digits in most cases and some rates returning to mid-2006 levels. However, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported a spectacular increase in the interest rate of the one-year adjustable...
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Mortgage rates increased in every category last week according to surveys released by Freddie Mac and by the Mortgage Bankers Association. Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market survey reported that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 6.62 percent with 0.4 point during the week ended August...
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Only fixed-rate mortgages (FRMs) continued to trend downward last week according to the results of Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey . Shorter term rates were all up slightly in that survey as were all rates in the Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey released by the Mortgage Bankers Association...