Posted on December 13, 2011 by zingding Dismal home sales have forced an uncomfortable reality on real estate agents: innovate or fold up shop. In 2010, new home sales were lower than ever. Since then, the housing market appears to…

Many investors wanted to avoid risk during the final week of the year, which helped relatively safer assets such as US mortgage-backed securities (MBS). As a result, mortgage rates fell a little to end near the lowest levels of the…

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Increased concerns about European debt issues and the pace of global economic growth caused investors to shift to relatively safer assets this week. As a result, mortgage rates declined a little to near the lowest levels of the year. Investors…

With little economic data in the US this week, the focus was on Europe. Some investors were hoping that a more concrete plan to address the region’s issues would be announced during the week, but they were somewhat disappointed. As…

This week, the effects on mortgage rates from increased optimism about Europe and stronger than expected US economic data were offset by increased expectations for additional Fed purchases of mortgage-backed securities (MBS). As a result, mortgage rates ended the week…