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Rate Lock Advice & Mortgage Market Update

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Rate Lock Advice & Mortgage Market Update

DAILY RATE LOCK ADVICE
March 25, 2010, 10:30 PT
Lock Advice is Updated Several Times Daily

Short Term Lock Advice for loans that must lock today:  LOCK. 
After yesterday's largest drop in over 6 months MBS prices are down 13/32 this morning and unfavorable midmorning re-pricing is a possibility.
Jobless Claims came in a little lower than expected.
Interest rates run opposite MPS prices

Long Term Lock or Float Advice:  LOCK.
After a couple of meandering weeks, yesterday the market resumed it's direction downward.  Lock ASAP.

National Average Fixed Rate Mortgage 
UP 0.05% at 5.03% on Mar.25

MBS Yields Opened at 4.838% Up 0.148%.

10 Year Treasury Currently 3.840% Up 0.15%

DJI Stocks $10,939.08,  Up 102.93, 0.95%

European and Asian Markets Up 0.767%

Nymex Crude Oil Currently $81.33 Up $0.72


  • US Housing Price Index Declined 6% from December to January News Release
  • 11-year-old boy buys property worth $44 mn in Dubai  The Economic Times
  • USDA Rural Housing Funds to Run Dry by April. Lenders Already Dropping the Program Mortgage News Daily
  • Maybe there is help for Jumbo Loans.  Broker Universe
  • CA Buyer and Broker convicted of loan Fraud Broker Universe
  • Home Prices Continue Climb from 2009  Housing Wire
  • Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) has been extended to June 30, 2011.  Notice 
  • Mortgage Brokers are the cheapest conduit to bring loans to market according to FHA Commissioner, David Stevens TBWS
  • Homeowner Estimates as Good as Zillow? Appraisal Academics Think So  Housing Wire
  • Homebuilders Expect FHA Changes to Hurt Sales HOUSINGWIRE
  • Where's housing headed?  Follow rents. CNNMoney.com
  • Housing construction up 2.8 percent in January.   StLtoday.com
  • OneWest Bank's sweetheart deal with our Bank Owned Government (BOG)  Must See Video
  • Fannie Mae is providing 3.50% Buyer Assistance on HomePath Loans Story

California Rates 03-24-10, 12:45 PT
30 Year Fixed to $417,000
Rate 4.750%  Point 1.25, APR 4.921%
APR Based on $350,000 Loan at 80% LTV
Above Rate can be locked  for 30 days.
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Comments (2)

Charlie Gantz
Keller Williams Commercial, Tampa Bay - Saint Petersburg, FL
J.D., M.B.A.

Thanks for the great info.  I'm keeping a copy of this for future use.  Charlie Gantz, Greenwood, IN; J.D., M.B.A.; Owner/Principal Broker, Atlas Commercial Real Estate, LLC

Mar 25, 2010 02:29 AM
Nancy Timberlake
RE/MAX Shoreline - Portland, ME
REALTOR - Southern Maine

Thanks for the great information---good to know.

Mar 25, 2010 02:47 AM