What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – March 31, 2014

Last week’s economic news includes several reports about housing markets.

The S&P Case-Shiller 10 and 20 city housing market indices, the FHFA House Price Index, New Home Sales and Pending Home sales reports suggest that the national housing market continues to grow, but at lower rates.

What a Mortgage Expert Predicts for Interest Rates

We recently received an email update from Debbie Benkert, Senior Loan Officer at 1st Mariner Mortgage in Bethesda. As a mortgage expert, she says she's often asked what interest rates are going to do. And just like anyone who does not have a crystal ball, shes says if she knew for sure what rates were doing, she'd […]

What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – March 17, 2014

Last week’s economic reports provided rays of light as compared to the recent slump in positive economic news.

With spring on the horizon, last week’s economic news showed welcome signs of growth.

What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – March 10, 2014

Last week’s economic news included construction spending and the CoreLogic Home Price Index for January. Reports for February included ADP Employment, Non-Farm Payrolls and national unemployment data.

Case Shiller Price Index Shows Highest Year-Over-Year Gains Since 2006

The Case-Shiller 10 and 20-City Home Price Indices for October were released on December 31. Although home prices in most cities continued to show year-over-year gains,, the pace of home price appreciation is expected to slow in 2014.

What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – January 6, 2014

The last week of 2013 brought relatively good news in view of the economic roller coaster rides caused by legislative impasse. A brief shutdown of federal government agencies, and nail-biting suspense over if and when the FOMC of the Federal Reserve would taper its quantitative easing program.

Haunting Numbers – What if Ghosts of the Past Return?

The following is a guest post from Nick Pakulla, a loan officer with Talmer Bancorp, Inc. at First Place Bank: With mortgage rates still near all-time lows and predictions that rates will continue edging up in 2014 and beyond, there are significant long-term interest savings for anyone in the market now! There are no tricks hidden in the […]

What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week: February 11th, 2013

Mortgage rates worsened for the week ending February 8, 2013 in response to strong economic data in the US and abroad.

Improving Market Index : Up To 201 Cities For December 2012

The Improving Market Index added 76 metropolitan areas in December as compared to the month prior.

The Federal Reserve Begins A 2-Day Meeting Today

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) begins a 2-day meeting today, its last of 8 scheduled meetings this year.