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by Athena Paquette | November 17, 2022 | Blog | 0 Comments

A mortgage is a loan or debt that is secured by real estate. In some states it is also the word used for the lien that is put on the property to secure the debt. Normally this loan is paid back over a specific time , like 30 years or 15 years, until the entire...

How raising the prime rate makes mortgage rates go down

by Athena Paquette | September 26, 2022 | Blog | 0 Comments

I have talked about this before but I think it is worth revisiting after our talk last week about the prime rate. The Federal Reserve raised the Fed Funds rate (often confused with the prime rate) by 0.75% this week.to 1.75% it was 0.25% a year ago. The highest 1-day...

Mortgage Minute – ARMS and HYBRIDS

by Athena Paquette | September 19, 2022 | Blog | 0 Comments

What do you do when mortgage interest rates jump up 2% in 4 months? Don’t go LONG, go SHORT use a HYBRID ARM loan ARM means adjustable-rate mortgage. But some people are not comfortable with the idea that their mortgage payment and that the interest rate will start...

Mortgage Minute – Adjustable rate mortgages or ARMS

by Athena Paquette | September 12, 2022 | Blog | 0 Comments

When rates go up, we usually see a switch over from the 30 year fixed to ARM loans. Why go LONG at a high rate when you can go short at a lower interest rate and get the upfront savings? People do this to help ease the payment shock of rates going up and to help them...

Good Rates This Week

by Athena Paquette | Mar 19, 2016 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors

All eyes were on the Fed this week. The Fed decided not to raise the prime lending rate and the markets loved it, giving interest rates a break. The upward movement of last week was broken. We started the week with the Feb retail sales down .1% but then Jan. sales...

Rates are Moving Around

by Athena Paquette | Mar 12, 2016 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors

This week’s update is from one of the economic analysts I follow, Larry Baer. He mostly deals with the gyrations of the bond market and its effect on mortgage rates. He dings me by text with updates starting at 5:30 am daily on days when bond market is trading. What...

Better than Expected

by Athena Paquette | Feb 27, 2016 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors

A week of slightly better than expected economic news and yet rates only moved up slightly. On Tuesday, January existing home sales were up stronger than expected (up .4%). Tuesday January New Home sales dropped like a rock by 9.2%, bringing rates back the little...

Quiet Week, But Remember to Lock In

by Athena Paquette | Feb 19, 2016 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors

It was a quiet week in economic news this week. Today, Friday, we got the news the that CPI was unchanged. It’s been a long time since I have seen that. The Core number, though, was up stronger than expected. Thursday the weekly jobless claims went 7000 to 275,000....

Fluctuations in the Stock Market

by Athena Paquette | Jan 30, 2016 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors

Another rocky week in the markets gave us more downside to the stock market and see-saw action in the fixed rates. The biggest news was that the Federal Reserve decided to leave rates as is, or in other words not raise them again, given the world economy’s weakness....

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