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Posts From December 2007

Interest rate freeze on subprime arms

Wednesday, December 5th 2007

Make sure you check this article out and see if you fit the criteria. if you do, listen for the offical anouncment Tuesday.  Odds are you will have to make the move and take the initiative to have your lender freeze your rate. read below...

 

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Inman News

A coalition of lenders, loan servicers and investors have reportedly agreed to a plan that would freeze interest rates on some subprime mortgage loans for five years.

Borrowers with loans made between Jan. 1,  2005, through July 30 of this year who face interest rate resets between Jan. 1, 2008, and July 31, 2010, would be eligible for interest rate freeze, the Associated Press reported, citing unnamed sources including Congressional aides.

An official announcement of the plan's details is scheduled for Thursday, AP reported.

Mortgage rates

Wednesday, December 5th 2007

 

 As you can see from the article below now is a good time to refinance those arms.....but wait!  Next week experts are predicting another rate cut, so rates could drop even further. Either way it's a good time to refinance as you can lock in a good rate now, and re-lock if rates go down after next week. 

 

 

Mortgage applications for the week ending Nov. 30 were up 22.5 percent from a week earlier, the Mortgage Bankers Association said today, as interest rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages fell below 6 percent and loan refinancings rose dramatically.

The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages fell to 5.82 percent, down from 6.09 percent the week before. That's the rate for a loan with an 80 percent loan-to-value (LTV) ratio and an average of 1.07 points, including origination fees.

The average contract interest rate for 15-year fixed-rate mortgages fell to 5.38 percent, down from 5.69 percent the week before, with points decreasing to 1.12 from 1.13 (including the origination fee) for 80 percent LTV loans.

The average contract interest rate for one-year adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) rose to 6.28 percent, up slightly from 6.24 percent the week before, with points increasing to 0.99 from 0.96 (including the origination fee) for 80 percent LTV loans.

Falling interest rates were accompanied by a surge in applications, particularly refinances, the MBA reported in its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey.