With the goal of helping more families keep their homes rather than lose them to foreclosure, Federal Housing Administration Commissioner Brian Montgomery, Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight Director James Lockhart and Harvard University Director and former House Financial Services Chairman Jim Leach addressed a crowd of more than 400 Realtors(R) at the National Association [...]
Fixed mortgage rates were largely unchanged this week. The average conforming 30-year fixed mortgage rate backtracked to 6.13 percent, according to Bankrate.com’s weekly national survey of large lenders. The average 30-year fixed mortgage has an average of 0.40 discount and origination points. The average 15-year fixed rate mortgage popular for refinancing was unchanged at 5.71 [...]
On the heels of integrating Google Maps Street View(TM) in 680 cities nationwide, RealEstate.com today announces several new search features created specifically to empower and to educate home shoppers browsing the site’s nearly two million listings. Now, house hunters visiting RealEstate.com can get their fingers on neighborhood information for more than 22,000 cities nationwide while [...]
Fixed mortgage rates inched upward for the third week in a row, with the average conforming 30-year fixed mortgage rate rising to 6.16 percent. According to Bankrate.com’s weekly national survey of large lenders, the average 30-year fixed mortgage has an average of 0.36 discount and origination points. The average 15-year fixed rate mortgage popular for [...]