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Headline Mortgage News January 12, 2024
10-Year Treasuries fell slightly to 3.92% which has been hovering between 3.72 to 4.15 the past four weeks fluctiating mortgage rates and relieving the fear rates may go higher for consumers, realtors, and loan officers. 30-year fixed rate mortgages trading down -0.29 putting rates at 6.49%. 15-year fixed-rate mortgages dropped -0.013 placing 15-year fixed-rate mortgage rates at 5.90% for prime borrowers. 5/1 ARM fell 0.67 pricing mortgage rates at 5.90%. Housing inventory remains tight and inventory lags with the demand for homes nationwide. Part of the imbalance of falling rates, high inflation, skyrocketing home prices, and a weak unpredictable economy with questionable validity on numbers and data released is a large percentage of homeowners who purchased homes two to four years ago have locked in mortgage rates around 3.0% and at the same time home prices have gone up an average of 50% over a period of three years, many homeowners do not want to sell and intend in staying put. If the circumstances were different, so will the homeowners agenda and may consider selling the current home or keeping the current home as a rental and purchase a new home whether upgrading or downsizing. Mortgage rates increased more than double of what it was just two years ago. The sudden interest rate jump to 8% have Americans with the mentality of not being able to justify investing in a new home for their primary home as well as investment homes. Many first-time home buyers who were qualfied and pre-approved around mid 2020 through the coronavirus outbreak in February 2021 who decided to wait because they were under the impression of a housing market correction and mortgage rates plummeting from 3.625% found it disappointing and disheartening that home prices have gone by 20% to 50% or more depending on the area and state and mortgage rates skyrocketing past 8.0%. Many homebuyers are now priced out of the market due to the sudden massive spike in housing prices. The monthly housing payment would have gone up from 50% to 100% where they can no longer afford with their wages. Wages have not kept up with inflation and high cost of goods and services. Americans still feel betrayed by the media and politicians at all level of government due to the deception, lies, truth being not told, fake news, political divide, and economic uncertainty in the nation. The country is maliciously divided by political party and the ideology globalists and extreme liberals are putting out is enough to make the American people not trust anything they hear until it has been fact checked and confirmed by reliable sources. Deaths from people who took the coronavirus vaccine and its boosters is increasing. More younger Americans in good health and shape are dying in their sleep due to blood clots or are getting diagnosed with fatal cancel losing their life prematurely. Many believe it is due to the coronavirus vaccine. The coronavirus vaccine has been cause of these premature deaths or illnesses of healthy individuals and many from all levels of society and profession swear the coronavirus vaccine has been engineered, created, and promoted to be the death tool and the solution to depopulate the world.
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So true 👍 and logical.