Anyone in the buying process right now probably already knows this, but if you’re just beginning to look- you might want to have a talk with your mortgage broker, because rates have been moving upward. The average fixed 30-year interest rate is currently at 6.74%.
June 18, 2007 at 1:48 pm
I bought my house 1 month ago. I got in at 5 and 7/8ths. Couldn’t be happier with how things have gone.
September 22, 2007 at 12:10 pm
In the U.S. interest rate are going lower, Gold is going higher, Oil is going higher, inflation is going higher, the dollar is going lower. What is wrong with this? Everything! At some point the FED is going to have to raise rates bigtime. We are in a very, very, precarious situation at the moment. I think Gold will tripple to over $2,000 an ounce when the market finally wakes up and sees the real inflation. Last I checked a lower dollar = higher import prices. There is no inflation deflator here. With commoditioes on fire you can forget about that. Bernanke should have never lowered rates last week. However, the Fed might be doing something that few have talked about. Maybe the Fed has abandoned the dollar to crush the trade deficit. Good luck, it will take 20 years to correct our 6% of GDP trade deficit and move it back to under 1% of GDP, unless you want to seriously disrupt the global economy. We are in for tough times people. Very tough! The FED will not be able to save housing with lower rates. We are in for a 10 year decline in home prices. It is called a cycle!