September 2nd, 2009 by TK
Making home mortgage rate predictions has never been easy, but for the past couple of years it has been almost impossible. Nobody expected the global financial crisis, when home interest rates forecast were set to rise and the rumblings of total market failure were yet to be heard. Even after the global financial crisis started [...]
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March 27th, 2009 by TK
Take mortgage rate predictions with a grain of salt this year, because there are more factors at play than market forces this year. In the good old days, when everyone knew one another personally, and your bank manager had probably watched you growing up, mortgage rates predictions were a simpler affair.
Mortgage rates predictions [...]
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March 3rd, 2009 by TK
Mortgage rates can go by many names - interest rates, points, interest, or simply rates. However, it’s all the same and that number could all mean the difference between tens of thousands of dollars in interest payments by the time you’re done paying off your mortgage.
To learn more about understanding mortgage rates and how knowing [...]
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March 2nd, 2009 by TK
Mortgage rates predictions have taken “a walk on the wild side” over the past 12 months. Once upon a time, home mortgage rates predictions were relatively simple to make.
Mortgage rates predictions depended simply on the interaction of the amount banks had to lend, and the number of prospective borrowers competing for the [...]
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February 16th, 2009 by TK
Governments around the world are intervening to stave off the effects of the global financial crisis.
While this is great for the workers whose employers would otherwise go out of business, it makes mortgage rates predictions somewhat complicated.
Mortgage rates predictions have traditionally been based on market pressures. With the levels of uncertainty in today’s mortgage market, [...]
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