Interest Rates

    Great news for Logan home buyers again, 30 year fixed mortgage rates are at their lowest rates ever. If you buy down some points, or get a really great lender, you can have an interest rate of less than 4%. And we though interest rates last week were good. “The average rate on [...]

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Alan Barker on May 20th, 2011

I watch mortgage interest rates a lot. Over the past three weeks, they have gone down, and are really, really low right now. The 30 year fixed mortgage can be obtained for less than 4.5%. 15 year fixed mortgages are going for less than 3.75%. With interest rates this low, why would anyone want do [...]

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Alan Barker on September 9th, 2010

It looks like it finally happened. Mortgage interest rates actually stopped declining. There is no new record low this week. It appears as if last week was the time to buy or refinance for anyone wanting the best interest rate ever. Now, interest rates aren’t bad, they are still just about record lows, and are [...]

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Alan Barker on August 20th, 2010

The standard news for Mortage Interest Rates, they’re down again. Because they keep going down every week, are people waiting to refinance until they drop further? Will we possibly see an increase in refinances the moment interest rates start going up? Probably not. Most people who can refinance right now and would benefit by it [...]

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So the latest results from the weekly Freddy Mac Survey show that mortgage interest rates are at new all time lows again. The only difference is that now demand for these record low interest rates is even less. The good news is that less demand means that these lower than ever mortgage rates will probably [...]

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Alan Barker on June 25th, 2010

Okay, so Mortgage Interest Rates are at a NEW record low. This is happening so often, it’s barely even news any more. The fact is that housing interest rates are so unbelievably low it’s almost unreal. Even though Utah home prices might drop a little bit more over the next year, from an affordability aspect, [...]

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Alan Barker on June 8th, 2010

I just got an email notifying me that FHA Mortgages are at their lowest point in 46 years! The par rate is 4.5%. That means if you pay more up front, you can get an even less expensive rate. BankRate.com has the par rate of some 30 year fixed conventional rates at 4.534%, 15 year [...]

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Alan Barker on May 27th, 2010

Mortgage Interest Rates are so low right now, that from a monthly payment standpoint, home prices would have to drop 22% to have the same monthly payment if mortgage rates were 7%. At the AVERAGE national interest rate right now, a P&I payment on a $150,000 home loan would be $785.19 a month. If mortgage [...]

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Alan Barker on April 22nd, 2010

Despite the end of the Federal Reserve’s purchase of Mortgage Backed Securities at the end of March, mortgage interest rates are still really low. John Neil of Wasatch Mortgage Solutions reports current 30 year interest rates at below 5%. Many finance “experts” predicted that at the beginning of April there would be a large spike [...]

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Alan Barker on March 24th, 2010

Mortgage Interest Rates rose today from fears of the US’s triple A credit rating lowering. This was recently done with Portugal because of its excessive debt, and fears that they will be able to pay it back. The Fed’s purchasing mortgaged backed securities is set to end this month. These purchases have artificially been keeping [...]

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