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| Bloomberg News |
Low interest rates continue to benefit anyone looking for a mortgage, as the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates fell to a new 19-month low in the latest week, slipping to 3.80% from 3.93% a week earlier, according to Freddie Mac‘s (FMCC) latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey. It’s the lowest average rate recorded since May 2013, and it comes during a week when Treasury bond yields also sank to new 2014 lows, with the 10-year Treasury yield – which typically sets the tone for mortgage rates – closing at a year-to-date low 2.071% on Tuesday.
“Mortgage rates fell along with 10-year Treasury yields, which closed at their lowest level since May 2013,” said Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac’s chief economist, in a statement, noting that housing starts fell in November from October.
An equivalent 30-year average rate measured by the Mortgage Bankers Association’s latest weekly survey fell to 4.06% from 4.11% a week earlier, and the average rate for jumbo loans of more than $417,000 fell to 3.99% from 4.07% a week earlier. Both of those rates are also now at their lowest since May 2013.
The MBA survey also showed mortgage applications decreased by 3.3% in the latest week.
Original article by Michael Aneiro here.
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