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2011 

What's Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week : March 28, 2011   Mortgage markets worsened last week as nuclear meltdown concerns eased across Japan, and the war within Libya moved closer to a potential finish. Wall Street voted with its dollars, and a return to risk-taking emerged. "Safe haven" buyi...
03/28/2011
What's Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week : March 21, 2011   Mortgage markets improved again last week despite an inflation-acknowledging statement from the FOMC and stronger-than-expected jobless data. Usually, events like this would lead mortgage rates higher, but violence in the Middle East an...
03/21/2011
What's Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week : March 14, 2011   Mortgage markets improved last week in a week of few economic releases. The one major data point - Retail Sales - showed stronger-than-expected, but markets reacted mildly. The report's strength was whispered in advance of the actual re...
03/14/2011
Military Personnel Can Still Claim The $8,000 Homebuyer Tax Credit   For certain members of the military, and for certain federal employees, there's just 2 months remaining to get use the federal home buyer tax credit. Eligible persons include members of the uniformed services, members of the For...
03/07/2011
FHA : Monthly Mortgage Insurance Premiums To Rise April 18, 2011   For the third time in 12 months, the FHA is changing its mortgage insurance costs.  Effective for all FHA case numbers assigned on, or after, April 18, 2011, annual mortgage insurance premiums (MIP) will increase 25 basis points. ...
03/04/2011
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