Mortgage Rate Week End Wrap February 13, 2009

The week started out in a positive manner with rates improving both Monday and Tuesday, only to stall out on Wednesday and give back the majority of the gains Thursday and Friday. Mortgage Backed Securities ended the week with only a slight 3bp gain over last week. Friday we saw MBS give up -28bp (FNMA 30...

Fannie Mae Rolls-Back Investor 4 Property Limit

Fannie Mae rolled-back one of its least popular mortgage guidelines updates of the last 12 months. Effective March 1, 2009, real estate investors can once again own and finance up to 10 individual properties. The restriction reversal does come with new minimum requirements, however. Homeowners buying a 5th,...

8 Things You Should Know About Buying Foreclosure Homes

Image by respres via Flickr If you are planning on buying an foreclosure home it is imperative that you work with an Realtor that is well versed with foreclosure transactions. Each bank has their own set of guidelines and many to not acknowledge the Arizona Real Estate Purchase Contract so the more...

Pros & Cons Of Short Sales

Short sales are different than bank-owned/foreclosure/repo homes, and also different than regular resales. They are a strange mix of the two. With a short sale, the owner still technically owns their home, but owes more on their mortgage than what the home is worth. Therefore, in order to sell, they need to...

Mortgage Rates January 13, 2009

Mortgage rates remained relatively unchanged today (see real time rates). In a speech today Bernanke suggest “the next step should be getting toxic assets, like those tied to subprime mortgages, off bank balance sheets”. (See video)  With Seattle being one of the few that has managed to weather the...

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