INTEREST RATES SHOW IMPROVEMENT – FHA LOWERS WAITING PERIOD AFTER FORECLOSURE, BK, AND SHORT SALE

INTEREST RATES SHOW IMPROVEMENT – FHA LOWERS WAITING PERIOD AFTER FORECLOSURE, BK, AND SHORT SALE

August 26^th, 2013

After starting last week rising quickly, interest rates rebounded near the end of the week. The Mortgage Backed Security market closed the week trading up + 28 bps, and also closed Monday up + 30 bps.

This market is very interesting because negative economic reports are taken as possibilities that the FED will take longer to slow the stimulus. Everything is related to the FED and will be until a taper actually happens.

The last few economic reports came in weaker than expected, causing some to believe that the FED will take longer to taper the stimulus because the economic growth targets are not there yet. One of the most notable reports came out on Friday – showing new home sales down over 13% from June – showing in very real terms that the higher rates are starting to affect the economy.

Can the economy hit projected growth goals with interest rates over 1.25% higher than the end of April? We are starting to see that this is could really be an issue, with the higher rates lowering potential home owner’s buying power, and making it hard for potential borrowers to lower their payment on a refinance. I think we may see some short term rate improvement as most of the economic reports have been lower than expectations. Even with rate improvement, there is only so much rates can go down unless the FED decides not to taper.

FHA LOWERS SEASONING REQUIREMENT TO 12 MONTHS ON FORECLOSURES, BANKRUPTCIES, AND SHORT SALES

Huge news from FHA last week, with FHA releasing new guidelines allowing potential borrowers to qualify for a FHA loan only 12 months after a foreclosure, bankruptcy, or a short sale.

This is welcome news in the lending community, with many capable borrowers having to wait out periods after economic events such as these. Foreclosures and short sales are especially common in areas hit the hardest by home values dropping far below the amount of the mortgages borrowers financed on the properties.

These new guidelines should bring more homeowner’s into the buying pool again, instead of waiting on the sidelines. Hopefully Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac will follow suit.

Make it a great week!!

BEST VALUE OF THE WEEK:

10 Year Fixed at 3.625% with $0 costs

TODAY’S RATES:

30 year fixed: 4.5% – .51 points, 4.625% – 0 points, 4.75% – $0 costs

20 year fixed: 4.25% – .6 points, 4.5% – 0 points, 4.625% – $0 costs

15 year fixed: 3.5% – .65 points, 3.75% – 0 points, 3.875% – $0 costs

10 year fixed: 3.375% – .53 points, 3.5% – 0 points, 3.625% – $0 costs

5/1 ARM: 3.125% – .99 points, 3.75% – 0 points

7/1 ARM: 3.875% – .88 points, 4.625% – 0 points

30 year fixed FHA: 4% – .84 points, 4.25% – $0 costs

15 year fixed FHA: 3.25% – .87 points, 3.75% – $0 costs

30 year fixed VA: 4.25% – $0 costs

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MORTGAGE RATES MOVING UP FAST – MOUNTING SENTIMENT THAT FED WILL TAPER IN SEPTEMBER

MORTGAGE RATES MOVING UP FAST – MOUNTING SENTIMENT THAT FED WILL TAPER IN SEPTEMBER

August 19^th, 2013

It’s been a bad week for mortgage interest rates and investment markets in general.

There is rising sentiment among traders that the FED will taper their bond purchasing program in September. This is causing the mortgage backed security market and the stock market to drop and interest rates to rise. The MBS market closed last week trading down -183 bps, and Monday trading down -58 bps.

Interest rates will likely to continue to rise. The easiest way to describe this is investors aren’t going to continue to buy a mortgage security investment at a higher price, when they know the price will drop as soon as the FED tapers. So the interest rate market doesn’t have much hope for improvement because this will be looming over it’s head until the taper happens or a complete change of direction is announced.

The FOMC Minutes will be released on Wednesday and this will likely give investors more guidance on when the FED may taper.

The suggestion here is to lock, lock, lock if you haven’t already missed the boat. Rates don’t have much room to go down, but lots of room to go up.

Make it a great week!!

BEST VALUE OF THE WEEK:

10 Year Fixed at 3.75% with 0 points

TODAY’S MORTGAGE RATES:

30 year fixed: 4.625% – .79 points, 4.75% – 0 points, 5% – $0 costs

20 year fixed: 4.5% – .99 points, 4.75% – 0 points, 4.875% – $0 costs

15 year fixed: 3.625% – .84 points, 3.875% – 0 points, 4.125% – $0 costs

10 year fixed: 3.5% – .92 points, 3.75% – 0 points, 4% – $0 costs

5/1 ARM: 3.25% – .99 points, 3.875% – 0 points

7/1 ARM: 3.875% – .92 points, 4.5% – .19 points

30 year fixed FHA: 4.25% – 0 points, 4.5% – $0 costs

15 year fixed FHA: 3.625% – .87 points, 3.75% – 0 points, 3.875% – $0 costs

30 year fixed VA: 4.25% – .15 points, 4.375% – 0 points, 4.625% – $0 costs

MORTGAGE RATES MOVING UP FAST – MOUNTING SENTIMENT THAT FED WILL TAPER IN SEPTEMBER

RATES STEADY – WILL FED MOVE CAUSE INTEREST RATES TO RISE IN SEPTEMBER?

RATES STEADY – WILL FED MOVE CAUSE INTEREST RATES TO RISE IN SEPTEMBER?

August 12^th, 2013

Last week started off with rising rates, but interest rates improved the last 3 days of the week. Overall, the Mortgage Backed Security Market closed up + 1 bps on the week – keeping rates very similar to the week before.

On Monday morning, interest rates were improving when we had a big intraday swing which ended with the MBS market closing down – 25 bps.

Much of the swing appeared to be due to the San Francisco chapter of the FED releasing an economic report essentially stating that the FED’s Mortgage Backed Security purchases were not very effective in stimulating the economy. The report indicated very modest GDP growth as a result of the stimulus.

In the past week we have also heard over 5 FED members state that the FED needs to taper it’s bond purchasing program.

This is a ticking time bomb at this point. All signs point to the FED tapering in 2013. They have FOMC meetings scheduled in September, October and December.

I recommend any customers that can benefit from a refinance to take advantage of it before this move happens. When it does, I expect 30 Year Fixed rates to jump into the 5%’s.

The FED could slow the stimulus as early as September.

Make it a great week!!

BEST VALUE OF THE WEEK:

15 Year Fixed at 3.625% with 0 points

TODAY’S RATES:

30 year fixed: 4.375% – .72 points, 4.5% – 0 points, 4.625% – $0 costs

20 year fixed: 4.125% – .96 points, 4.375% – 0 points, 4.625% – $0 costs

15 year fixed: 3.375% – .88 points, 3.625% – 0 points, 3.75% – $0 costs

5/1 ARM: 3% – .95 points, 3.625% – 0 points

7/1 ARM: 3.375% – .98 points, 4% – 0 points

10/1 ARM: 4% – .97 points, 4.5% – 0 points

30 year fixed FHA: 3.75% – .21 points, 4% – 0 points, 4.25% – $0 costs

15 year fixed FHA: 3.25% – .1 points, 3.375% – 0 points, 3.75% – $0 costs

30 year fixed VA: 4% – .17 points, 4.125% – 0 points, 4.25% – $0 costs

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RATES STEADY – WILL FED MOVE CAUSE INTEREST RATES TO RISE IN SEPTEMBER?

RATES IMPROVE AFTER JULY EMPLOYMENT REPORT

RATES IMPROVE AFTER JULY EMPLOYMENT REPORT

August 5^th, 2013

It was quite a roller coaster week as rates went up for the majority of the week, then took back the losses on Friday. At the end of the week, the Mortgage Backed Security market closed trading up + 8 bps, with the market improving over 100 basis points on Friday alone.

The July employment report was the catalyst for the rate improvement on Friday. Non-Farm payroll jobs were below forecasts and the numbers for June were revised lower. Even though the unemployment percentage went down, the lower than expected job growth numbers caused a big rise in the MBS market.

Also on Friday, a Fed member stated publicly that the FED would taper it’s bond purchasing program when current economic data supported economic growth, not on the FED’s own internal forecasts. This is reassurance to the market that the FED won’t slow the stimulus based on projections versus real data.

Still the MBS market was not able to go above it’s 10 day moving average of resistance. This could mean that traders will not purchase Mortgage Backed Securities over a certain amount, period.

I still think the prospect of 30 year fixed rates improving much past 4.25% are slim, and locking is the best option.

Make it a great week!!

BEST VALUE OF THE WEEK:

20 Year Fixed at 4.25% with 0 points

TODAY’S RATES:

30 year fixed: 4.375% – .65 points, 4.5% – 0 points, 4.625% – $0 costs

20 year fixed: 4.125% – .85 points, 4.25% – 0 points, 4.5% – $0 costs

15 year fixed: 3.375% – .84 points, 3.625% – 0 points, 3.875% – $0 costs

5/1 ARM: 2.875% – .85 points, 3.375% – 0 points, 3.875% – $0 costs

7/1 ARM: 3.25% – .99 points, 3.875% – 0 points, 4.5% – $0 costs

10/1 ARM: 4% – .87 points, 4.5% – 0 points

30 year fixed FHA: 3.75% – .64 points, 4% – 0 points, 4.25% – $0 costs

15 year fixed FHA: 3.25% – .17 points, 3.5% – 0 points, 3.75% – $0 costs

30 year fixed VA: 4% – .42 points, 4.25% – $0 costs

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RATES IMPROVE AFTER JULY EMPLOYMENT REPORT