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Want A Payroll Tax Cut? Be Prepared For HIGHER Fannie/ Freddie Fees

Democrats and Republicans both support extending the payroll tax cut, and they both agree that the cost of the extension should be offset through changes elsewhere in the budget. The idea coming from the Democrats idea that is to…. pass the expense

Buyers Better Hurry: Rates Reach New Lows

For the sixth straight week, fixed mortgage rates inched down, reaching new lows for 2011. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.60 percent this week while the 15-year mortgage averaged 3.78 percent, Freddie Mac reports in its weekly mortgage market

Mortgage Purchase Activity at Highest of Year

Mortgage applications for purchases rose to their highest level of the year last week, the Mortgage Bankers Association reports. Purchase applications for mortgages increased 12.5 percent from one week earlier, and on an unadjusted basis, purchase application

A Year of Contrasts in Real Estate

This has been a year of real estate contrasts: While many consumers have taken advantage of historic buying opportunities and the market has seen a gradual stabilization of sales and prices, other challenges facing the nation have led some to question

Jobs, Lending Key in Market Recovery

Low interest rates are not enough to bring the market into full recovery, real estate prognosticators say. Kenneth Rosen, chair of the Fisher Center for Real Estate at the University of California, Berkeley, points to pent-up demand and cheap loans as

History will repeat itself

I hope all is well in your world today. I wanted to write you and give you some of my thoughts and opinions on what I see developing in the housing and economic climates. Home loan interest rates are at an all time low, as of 12 th August it hit 4.4 percent,

Senate Approves Increase in FHA Fees

Senate Approves Increase in FHA Fees The Senate on Wednesday gave the Federal Housing Administration the go-ahead to raise monthly fees that borrowers pay the agency. The annual fee is expected to raise from the current rate of 0.55 percent to 0.9 percent

Home Prices Continue Gains Over 2009

U.S. home prices, including distressed sales, increased by 2.9 percent compared to the same month last year, according to CoreLogic in its monthly index. May was the fourth straight month prices showed a year-over-year increase. "Home price appreciation