The 10-Year Treasury yield shot way up today – unexpectedly. The reasons? Higher oil prices sparking inflation fears, and a move into stocks and out of bonds (flight from “safety” into “risk assets”). I bring this up because we have well over 100 borrowers in our database who easily qualify for no-cost refinances that would save them thousands of dollars – but they don’t want to execute because they are convinced rates will fall further. Sigh…Read More
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Yesterday, I predicted rates would fall in response to cooling inflation, resulting from falling rents. Welp, that didn’t take long. Today, rates fell in response to cooling inflation, resulting from falling rents.
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Highest Mortgage Rates Since 2009 Last week’s sky-high inflation numbers have pushed 10-Year Treasury rates to levels we have not seen since 2018. While mortgage rates are at levels we […]Read More
Why We Refused Refinances In 2020 This is a quick aside but a reminder that we stopped accepting refinance applications in 2020. It cost us millions in lost revenue but […]Read More
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30-MINUTE LOANS Closing a conforming (Fannie/Freddie) refinance for a W2’d employee with good credit can take less than 30 minutes of effort on the part of a lender. This is […]Read More
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Fed Chair Powell spoke yesterday and sent the bond market into a tizzy, as investors sold off their bonds and pushed rates sharply higher. What crazy thing did Powell have […]Read More
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The Mortgage Bankers Association surveys multiple mortgage banks every week and then releases all of the data. The most recent survey, discussed in this National Mortgage News article, is particularly […]Read More
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In a shocking and surprise weekend move, the Fed cut the Fed Funds Rate to 0% yesterday – which may or may not have moved mortgage rates for reasons I explain often (cuts in short-term interbank borrowing rates don’t often translate to cuts in long-term mortgage rates).Read More
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NO COST DOES NOT MEAN NO “CASH TO CLOSE” Almost all of our refinances are “no cost” loans, meaning that we, as a lender, cover all of the “non-recurring closing […]Read More
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For years after the foreclosure crisis of 2008 and 2009, everyone expected a huge surge of “shadow inventory” properties to flood the market. This never happened, and will likely not […]Read More
We have a borrower who has been stuck with a 6.5% interest rate for years b/c he thought he did not have enough equity in his Antioch home to refi. […]Read More
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