Mortgage rates are off to a slow start in the new year, and that’s a good thing. An absence of movement means the average lender continues…
Home Refinancing is Easy
For all practical purposes, the year is over when it comes to mortgage rate volatility. True, there is some small chance that political developments conspire…
One major theme in the 2nd half of 2020 is that mortgage rates have been insulated from market drama–walking a different path than their usual best…
2020 has safely secured its place in the record books as the year of all-time lows in mortgage rates–one of them anyway. Several other years…
Today marked the release of an updated policy statement from the Federal Reserve. In other words, it was Fed day! Lots can happen on Fed…
Mortgage rates were mixed today, depending on the lender. The bond market–the driving force behind interest rate movement–was stronger yesterday. Many mortgage lenders thought it was…
What do you get when you add a modest amount of cost to the average mortgage rate from last Friday? Rates that are still effectively…
After months of waiting and multiple successive reports of all-time lows from other sources, the average lender is now finally back in line with the…
It’s old news that 2020 is unprecedented for a lot of bad reasons, but how about a few that aren’t so bad? As is often…
While all is easily forgiven in light of all-time low rates, the pandemic made a mess of the mortgage market in many ways. Most messes…