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Mortgage rates remain below 5 percent - Long Island Business News
... dropped to a record low of 4.71 percent in December and have hovered around 5 percent since, kept down by a Federal Reserve campaign to stabilize the housing market by lowering mortgage rates. The central bank’s $1.25 trillion program to buy ...
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:36:00 GMT

Housing construction up 2.8 percent in Janury - The Gaea Times
WASHINGTON — Housing construction posted a better-than-expected increase in January which pushed activity ... In other favorable developments, mortgage rates are hovering around 5 percent, pushed down by a Federal Reserve program to buy mortgage ...
Posted: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:33:00 GMT

Mortgage assistance plan growing, but hundreds of ... - The Gaea Times
The program is designed to lower borrowers’ monthly payments by reducing mortgage rates to as low as 2 percent for five years and extending loan terms to ... Housing counselors complain that many homeowners are forced to wait many months for a ...
Posted: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:08:00 GMT

BBC Blog Network - BBC
The base rate should go up, accompanied with explicit regulation to stop the banks raising loan/mortgage rates - i.e. reduce the spread ... enter negative equity should accept the risk that the value of housing can plummet as well as go down and ...
Posted: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:47:00 GMT

Federal mortgage relief helps just one in six ... - Oregonian
The program is designed to lower borrowers' monthly payments by reducing mortgage rates to as low as 2 percent for five years and extending loan terms to as ... Housing counselors complain that many homeowners are waiting many months for a decision.
Posted: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:42:00 GMT

Foreclosures Dip Slightly in February - Seattle Bubble
According to foreclosure tracking company RealtyTrac , Washington’s statewide foreclosure rate for February of one foreclosure for every 1,046 housing units was ... business in April, borrowers could see mortgage rates rise by a half a point ...
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:54:00 GMT

Everybody’s Business - New York Times
An ad for mortgage rates last year at a bank in Maine ... He’s also author of “The Big Picture,” an irreverent blog on markets. If agents are always motivated to make a deal, buyers are often asking an impossible question: “Will the price of ...
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:53:00 GMT

Turn, turn, turn - HoweStreet.com
One afternoon last week, three hours apart, I met with two couples, both of whom read this blog. As it turned out ... From the Ottawa Citizen : With low mortgage rates, affordable prices and a healthy inventory, the housing market is bracing for a ...
Posted: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:59:00 GMT

MBS OP-ED: MAKING SENSE OF THIS MESS - MortgageNewsDaily.com
com/mortgage_rates/blog/48011.aspx Second Reading: http://www ... reflecting nearly $320 billion in expenditures related to the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) and the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (Senior Preferred Agreement ...
Posted: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:40:00 GMT

Archives for October 2009 - MonitorBankRates.com
... securities in the first quarter of 201o this year’s winter housing market is expected to be bleak. On the positive side is homes are more affordable than they have been for several years and today’s mortgage rates ... Wachovia Blog , Matt ...
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:54:00 GMT