Time To Refinance? Mortgage Rates Down 1.00 Percent Since April

By Cheryl Bower | October 22, 2010

The rate-and-fee combination you’d get in your home state is different from the rate-and-fee combination you’d get if you lived somewhere else. In the West, rates are low and fees are high; in the Southeast, it’s the opposite.

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The Fed’s June Minutes Keep Mortgage Rates In Rally-Mode

By Cheryl Bower | July 16, 2010

At 7,333 words, the June Fed Minutes is the unabridged version of the more well-known, post-meeting press release. The corresponding press release was just 360 words. It turns out, the Fed’s words are doing wonders for mortgage rates.

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