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Good! Because that is pretty much the only thing that will make housing affordable again.
That and:
1) Requiring ALL mortgages to have a 20% down.
2) Forbidding corporations/LLCs from buying/owning SFHs. Well, LLCs owned by corps.
After hitting the lowest levels in over a month last Tuesday, mortgage rates have been moving higher fairly quickly each day since then.
It’s the mom and pop shops that are into owning SFH’s. There’s no scale in it, and the cash flow sucks to negative. Corporations/LLCs would prefer to own apartments
Formerly. Now Blackrock and others are buying up SFHs and renting them.
It’s the mom and pop shops that are into owning SFH’s. There’s no scale in it, and the cash flow sucks to negative.
Please share with us, your firsthand knowledge of some of these.
Mortgage lenders prefer to release one set of rates per day. If the market moves enough, they will typically recall those offerings and "reprice" for better or worse. At the start of business today, the average lender's rates were actually fairly close to last Friday's, but intraday weakness in the bond market forced widespread reprices ("for the worse," in case that part wasn't implied clearly enough).
In the bigger picture, today's rates are the highest in about 2 weeks, but the movement during that time hasn't been too extreme. The average lender is still able to offer top tier conventional 30yr fixed rates in the low 3% range.
http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/consumer_rates/990793.aspx