Home Mortgage Interest Rates Continue To Fall

Is it the right time to get into a mortgage? No one times the market perfectly, so waiting around could land you with a higher rate. This article by Ki summarizes a lot of important data if you’d like to look at the numbers yourself.

Mortgage Interest Rates Continue To Fall

This was the sixth week in a row were 30 Year mortgage rates fell or held steady. In the tarry 6 weeks 30 year notes have fallen from 6.63 to 6.35. This was preceded by a sudden jump in interest rates in July where 30 year mortgage interest rates rose from 6.26 to 6.63 midst July 17th and July 24th. So during the time rates are little higher today than what we saw on July 17th they have almost fallen rear to mid July levels. It’s interesting to dot that it took one week for rates to jump from 6.26 to 6.63 and six weeks of falling rates to get occlude to the July 17th levels.

September 4, 2008

30-yr 6.35
15-yr 5.90
5-yr ARM 5.97
1-yr ARM 5.15

August 28, 2008
30-yr 6.40
15-yr 5.93
5-yr ARM 6.03
1-yr ARM 5.33

August 21, 2008
30-yr 6.47
15-yr 6.00
5-yr ARM 5.99
1-yr ARM 5.29

August 14, 2008
30-yr 6.52
15-yr 6.07
5-yr ARM 6.02
1-yr ARM 5.18

August 7, 2008
30-yr 6.52
15-yr 6.10
5-yr ARM 6.05
1-yr ARM 5.22

Ok so what does this mean for a mortgage? Obviously ones mortgage would be lower with falling rates but by how much. Let’s look at a 200k mortgage and using our free mortgage calculator lets fun the numbers based on today’s rates.

September 4th
30-yr $1244.47
15-yr $1676.92
5-yr ARM $1195.24
1-yr ARM $1092.05

August 28th
30-yr $1251.01
15-yr $1680.15
5-yr ARM $1202.96
1-yr ARM $1114.33

July 24th
30-yr $1281.28
15-yr $1707.22
5-yr ARM $1219.75
1-yr ARM $1134.32

So why have rates steadily fallen. I consider it has to be based on rumors (which have now proven to be correct) that the federal nation is going to takeover Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Basically the direction takeover provides more assurance to banks that their mortgage insurance is going to be paid out in case of default. The declining fortunes of Freddie Mac spooked some banks into pensive their mortgage insurance was harmoniously worthless. So now banks are concavity rates in their view the risk associated with the loans has gone down.

So what do I expect to see over the next few months? I would be fascinated if mortgage rates don’t collate to fall now that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are owned by the government. The Fed has been trying to push down interest rates all year and now they have the revenue to do so (I contemplate this was part of the motivation rearward the takeover of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae). So does this mean investors? Should they wait for mortgage rates to drop before buying? I don’t ponder so. If rates follow in succession to fall certain estate prices could rise or at least I would expect to see underADJ Expensiveness deals sitting on the market. Instead if you find a dominion to I would watch interest rates and if they string together to fall I would try and relock your mortgage rate at the new lower rate. While I expect rates to fall something unexpected that spooks banks over the next month could of course push mortgage rates postern up.

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Ki lives in Austin Texas. His website has a graph that shows mortgage rate trends. He also provides a free calculator for potential home buyers and a mortgage interest rates widget.

Thanks for sharing that excellent information with us, Ki. I enjoyed reading your report and I know our readers will find it useful as well.

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