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Mortgage Rates Rise To Highest Levels Of The Year

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March 20, 2012, 6:30 AM PST

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Mortgage Interest Rate lock Advice for locks within 8 days: FLOAT 

Mortgage Points based on 3.5% Mortgage Backed Securities are down 0.22 point. 

 

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MORTGAGE MARKET INDICATORS 

National Average Fixed Rate Mortgage 3.875%   
MBS (3.5%) - 102.06, High: 102.09, Low: 101.94   
DJI Stocks currently $13,164.13,  Down $-75, Change -0.57%   
Asian & European Stock Market Indexes Down -0.788%   
Nymex Crude Oil Currently $106.88 Down $1.21   
Gold 1 Once - 1646

                
MORTGAGE NEWS BRIEFS

 

Mortgage Rates Rise To Highest Levels Of The Year
 
With the new week comes new pain for Mortgages Rates, which rose to their highest levels of the year today.  Lenders have been adjusting their rate sheets all day and by varying degrees, so there's greater than normal degree of variation between them.>>Read More Mortgage Daily News

 

Nearly 100 Housing Markets Improve in March: NAHB
 
Fewer declines in housing permits, strengthening job numbers, and stabilizing home prices helped field improvements in nearly 100 housing markets in March, according to the National Association of Home Builders. » Read More MReport

 

One BofA Manager Signs 67,908 Documents in 2 Year Period
A Bank of America manager said she read the first paragraph of a document, and then located the place she needed to sign.  She spent 1-1/2 to 2 hours per day on signing documents and two to three minutes on each. >>Read More Mortgage News Daily

 

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Erv Fleishman
Realty Associates - Boca Raton, FL
Luxury Prop Specialist Realty Associates

A year from now, we will wake up and wonder where those magical rates went.

The conundrum is the slow market.

Prices are down, rates are down.

Jobs are the answer.

Mar 19, 2012 11:58 PM
Jessica Holtzman
Keller Williams Realty, Inc. - Moorestown, NJ
Real Estate Agent in Southern New Jersey

Its amazing how people are waiting for the market to just get worse.... The rates are unreal right now!

Mar 21, 2012 12:14 PM