September 9, 2011 (Shirley Allen) Fannie Mae announced the opening of its tenth help center in Sacramento, California. The new Sacramento Mortgage Help Center will provide free education and counseling services to struggling homeowners in the Sacramento area. The Center was developed in partnership with NeighborWorks HomeOwnership Center Sacramento Region, local community and elected officials, [...]
September 7, 2011 (Shirley Allen) Last weeks market turmoil and poor jobs report pushed Treasury yields back under two percent and mortgage rates followed right behind as average interest rates over the last week reached now lows for 2011 according to the data collected by LendingTree’s Weekly Mortgage Rate Pulse. […]
August 31, 2011 (Shirley Allen) Average weekly interest rates for fixed rate mortgages remained at about the same levels as the previous two weeks with some lenders now offering 15-year fixed rate loans for less than three percent according to the data collected by LendingTree’s Weekly Mortgage Rate Pulse. […]
August 31, 2011 (Shirley Allen) American consumers continued to pay-off their outstanding debts and delinquency levels continued to improve in the second quarter of 2011 according to the Credit Risk Index (CRI) released by credit monitoring giant TransUnion. […]
August 17, 2011 (Shirley Allen) Shorter term mortgages have grown more attractive to borrowers as interest rates on fixed rate loans continue to decline fueling a 31 percent increase in 15-year fixed rate mortgage requests according to the data collected by LendingTree’s Weekly Mortgage Rate Pulse. […]
August 11, 2011 (Shirley Allen) Long term mortgage rates were unfazed by the debt crisis negotiations and and subsequent U.S. credit downgrade with interest rates continuing to fall to the year’s lowest levels according to the data collected by LendingTree’s Weekly Mortgage Rate Pulse. […]
August 3, 2011 (Shirley Allen) According to the data collected on August 2, 2011, for LendingTree’s Weekly Mortgage Rate Pulse, average home loan rates offered by network lenders were 4.56 percent (4.81% APR) for 30-year fixed mortgages, which is down from 4.74 percent reported the previous week, 3.80 percent (4.20% APR) for 15-year fixed mortgages, [...]
July 27, 2011 (Shirley Allen) According to the data collected on July 26, 2011, for LendingTree’s Weekly Mortgage Rate Pulse, average home loan rates offered by network lenders were 4.74 percent (5.01% APR) for 30-year fixed mortgages, which is down from 4.77 percent reported the previous week, 3.89 percent (4.33% APR) for 15-year fixed mortgages, [...]
July 20, 2011 (Shirley Allen) According to the data collected on July 19, 2011, for LendingTree’s Weekly Mortgage Rate Pulse, average home loan rates offered by network lenders was 4.77 percent (4.94% APR) for 30-year fixed mortgages, which is same rate as reported the previous week, 4.00 percent (4.25% APR) for 15-year fixed mortgages, which [...]
