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Home Loan News Delinquency and Foreclosure Rates Decreased in First Quarter of 2005. On Tuesday the Mortgage Bankers Association, or MBA, released a report concerning their analysis of consumer mortgage payment trending. The report shows that the actual number of American homeowners who are behind or late in remitting mortgage obligations decreased in the first quarter of 2005...

CMR Interest Rate Feed - 15-year Rates Drop to 4.875 Early Tuesday. 30-year fixed interest rates remain stable thus-far Tuesday, but we may expect some minor fluctuation later throughout the financial market business-day. 15-year fixed interest rates went down 1/4 of a percentage point to reach 4.875 percent with zero discount points and $870.00 in closing costs...

Record-Level Home Loan Applicants Last Week. The Mortgage Bankers Association released its application volume index for week ending June 10 indicating the number of applicants has swelled to the highest level seen since July of 2004...

Interest Rate Predictions. Interest rate fluctuations and unexpected turns make predicting which direction interest rates will take in the coming week a tough job, however...

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With the current unheard of low loan rates, due to today's quite low interest rates, it makes sense to refinance now to avoid the predicted increases when the Federal Reserve Board next meets. Locking your rates at current levels is very important to save the most money that is possible. Mortgage rates are soon expected to increase slightly overall right now, with high volume areas like New York and Los Angeles possibly going much higher due to the low number of available units compared with the number of buyers .

Rates rise for forth straight week

Published: March 11, 2005

According to Freddie Mac's Amy Cutts "Last Friday's employment report reinforced the perception that the economy is on sure footing, leading bond markets to push interest rates higher again this week."

30-year fixed-rate mortgages,as announcedby Freddie Mac, averaged 5.85 % for the week ending today, a rise of .04%. The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage averages were 5.38 %, up .05% from last week . Points on both the 30- and 15-year averaged 0.6. Five-Year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate mortgages averaged 5.22 percent this week, with an average 0.6 points, up from 5.17 last week. One-year Treasury-indexed adjustable-rate mortgages averaged 4.24 percent this week, with an average 0.7 points, up from last week when they averaged 4.14 percent.

Freddie Mac's chief economist also said: "Although inflation remains tame, the recent ...(read entire article)