Latest News in Refinancing Home Mortgages – Jan 14, 2010


Bankrate: Mortgage Rates Dip Again – Stockhouse
The average conforming 30-year fixed mortgage decreased this week to 5.23 percent, according to Bankrate.com’s weekly national survey. The average 30-year fixed mortgage has an average of 0.47 discount and origination points. (Logo: http://www …

U.S. 2009 Foreclosures Shatter Record Despite Aid – Post Chronicle
U.S. foreclosure actions shattered all records in 2009 and will do so again this year, with unemployment and wage cuts overcoming programs to remedy failing home loans, RealtyTrac said on Thursday. A record 2.8 million properties with a mortgage got …

Refinance.com Goes Live – Yahoo Finance
The site shows borrowers each lender’s interest rates, resulting monthly payments, fees, and monthly savings over their current mortgage. Matches can usually … refinancing from a particular lender, they click on “Rate Lock,” which obligates lenders …

UK Mortgage Affordability Best For At Least Five Years – CML – FXStreet.com
LONDON (Dow Jones)–The proportion of income U.K. homeowners use to cover mortgage interest payments has fallen to its lowest level for more than five years, but the large size of deposit required to secure a home loan is still limiting activity in …

Viewer Stories: Housing Market Victims – click orlando
I have two house payments. We put our first home up for sale in May 2007, which we lived in for 10 years prior, we moved to another home in Sept 2007. We have had a few offers, but it appears buyers out there just want something for nothing as well …

Bank Of America CEO’s Testimony – Here Is The City
… crisis; (3) a global credit … American consumer and economy, better: financial firms able to offer an integrated suite of financing options, or balkanized firms that that do not? We believe that a company looking to choose among loans, debt

Mortgage costs fall to five-year low – The Guardian
The cost of servicing a mortgage fell to its lowest level in five years in November, figures showed today, with the biggest winners being home movers. Figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) show falling interest rates and house prices …

The Benefits of Missing the Global Party – Inside Fidelity
or GIC, is out $100 million from its investment in a $575 million loan made to the purchasers … and head of the high yield and leveraged loans business at the New York firm, which advises investors on the valuation of mortgage debt and structured …

The Willies – American Reporter
He paid me back $2,800, pretty slowly, and then after two months or so stopped paying after he got refinancing for his home. He said his wife was angry that I had called and demanded my money back Well, where was the Federal Reserve? Where was the U.

In Subprime Fallout, Women Take Heavy Hit – Women’s eNews
Women whose loan debt amounted to a smaller-than-average percentage of their income were more likely to get subprime loans in comparison to men … refinance her original mortgage so she could tap her home for equity. Her mounting debt left her …