Category: Seattle Mortgage Rates

Seattle Mortgage Rates Today 2/3/12:  US employers substantially increased hiring in January 2012 with expectations around 150,000 jobs but blew that out creating 243,000 jobs.  This is a continued hot streak for hiring with December adding 203,000 jobs and having both November / December reports revised for improvements. This has led to the lowest unemployment […]

Seattle mortgage rates today are close to the lowest levels for 2012.  IF you are on the short term meaning you are in a purchase contract or refinancing, now might be the best time to secure your interest rate.  Each home buyer or owner’s financial scenario is different so please check with us if you […]

Seattle Real Estate Mortgage Rates Today 1/23/12: Existing-home sales for December 2011 increased 5% from November. This is the third consecutive month of increases and the second highest reading of 2011. The December level was also 3.6% above December 2010, and as a whole, existing-home sales were up 1.7% from 2010. Total housing inventory dropped 9.2% […]

Seattle Real Estate Mortgage Rates Today. Happy Monday!  This overall week the economic news is pretty light.  Today the bonds are slightly up but not really high enough for consumers to see a real drop in mortgage rates.  This week a total of $66B in notes and bonds are set for auction.  This auction starts […]

Mortgage bonds up and down as the jobs report is above expectations and the Euro continues to struggle. Next week stay tuned as retail sales reports are due.

Seattle Real Estate Mortgage Rates Today 1/4/2012: Year is off to a strong start for the stock market but what is to come of the housing market which is so closely tied to the economic recovery.  Breaking news today has a letter addressed from Fed President Ben Bernanke addressed to the U.S. Senate and the […]

Seattle Real Estate Mortgage Rates Today 12/21/2011 Housing and Unemployment have been tested and proven, the two most important variables that impact the economic recovery of the United States.  Though the numbers are not staggering it does show signs of improvement.  Less than 18 months ago unemployment hit its all time highs and housing numbers […]

Seattle Real Estate Mortgage Rates Today 12/14/2011: What happened at the Fed meeting yesterday? Not much. There was not much change to yesterday’s Fed announcement; however, they did concede and are quite cognizant that significant risks to the economic outlook are exacerbated by straining global financial markets. Stocks were negatively affected without the mention of […]

Seattle Real Estate Mortgage Rates Today 12/13/2011:  What’s happening today?  Today the members of the Fed will convene for the Federal Open Market Committee Meeting to discuss monetary policy.  With the current economic state, there is no intention of raising the Federal Funds Rate which is currently at 0%-.25%.  Obviously when discussing the economy, the […]