The world of mortgages is confusing at best. There are literally thousands of mortgage companies anxious to loan you money and hundreds of terms to learn. Where do you begin, and how on earth can you compare mortgages to find out what is best for you? To begin, it is most helpful to learn the [...]
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All construction-to-permanent loans, especially owner builder loans, have two sets of interest rates – one rate during construction and one permanent mortgage rate once you are done building. If an owner builder can find a way to lock the permanent mortgage rate now, prior to construction, he can save a lot of money over the [...]
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This week 30 year mortgage rates rose over half a point. This is the largest one week increase this year. It’s interesting that the rate increases happened after the bailout was passed by the government. Although this is not a sign the bailout will fail its not a positive sign of its [...]
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Every serious saver expects a reasonable amount of income from their savings. But the ongoing financial crisis has forced banks to slash interest rates which will naturally reflect on the savings income adversely. Hence savers have a cause for serious concern about their falling income and are looking for ways to protect their income from [...]
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Before we talk about what happened with mortgage rates this week lets do a quick recap of what happened last week. Last week mortgage interest rates made a sudden jump over the previous week. For the entire month of June and July 30 year mortgage interest rates only fluctuated from 6.09 to [...]
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So what has been going on in the world of finance and mortgages? Certainly the biggest news was the fall of IndyMac. Last week we heard that IndyMac had stopped giving out new mortgage loans and was going to concentrate on simply servicing the existing loans in its portfolio. Apparently this was [...]
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With British people yearning for a second home, holiday home or oversees property investment, leaseback properties are becoming a favoured option. A property purchased in France which can then be let for the use of students, the elderly or business people is a wise investment as once the mortgage is paid, you are then free [...]
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In a week of historic changes in the US financial markets mortgage interest rates held pretty much even across the board. With the market making the largest one day drop in decades and also one of the largest one day gains in a long time to mention nothing of the historic 700 billion dollar [...]
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Mortgage interest rates moved down this week. 30 Year rates feel back below 6 dropping from 6.10 last week to 5.94. 15 Year rates all fell quite a bit going from 5.78 last week to 5.63 this week. Below are rates for the major mortgage products for the last few weeks.
October 9, [...]
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