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Why the media is the worst gauge for the direction mortgage rates

October 10, 2017 by sonomacountym

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Comparing Rates Takes Knowledge

If you’re in the market for a mortgage, the worst gauge the direction of mortgage rates is the media. Here’s why …

Mortgage rates trade in lockstep with the mortgage back securities market which changes with the ebb and flow of the stock market. As Money flows in and out of stocks, the same happens with the bond market. As a result, the price of a mortgage-backed security does change much the way price of a stock does. When you read an article on CNBC that mortgage rates are now at an all-time new low you cannot take at face value that you will automatically receive that snazzy interest-rate.

Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the two mortgage giants that buy 97% of all residential mortgages in America. They are the source for the most accurate mortgage rate information. When they announce mortgage rates rates ticked up they are taking an average of all loan applications across all mortgage companies in America. You heard that correctly it’s an average. An average is simply a ballpark range of where the general market is.

Let’s say on a Tuesday morning at 11AM Eastern standard time which is the same that mortgage rates have improved 75 basis points. Put another way if you’re looking at a 30-year fixed rate mortgage for example at 3.875% at no points, now that interest-rate is priced at 3.875% with a lender credit of .75% of the loan amount. Then you go to lock-in and at 1:00 PM, pricing has changed again, such a scenario, is very realistic based on the flow of funds to the bond market.

The media will never ever allow you to identify an exact interest rate and exact structure and pricing of how your loan will be determined because of some other factors including, but not limited to the following:

→Loan size

→Credit score

→Loan program

→Occupancy

→Property type

→Debt to income ratio

→Assets

Generally speaking but not always when the economy is doing poorly mortgage rates are improving. People uncertain about the future of the economy when there is negative economic information move the money into the fixed income market where there is typically less volatility than the stock market. When this occurs, yields rise and rates to the consumer drop. When positive information surfaces within the economy people will move the money out of the bond market and put the money into the stock market where they can typically get better returns. This will cause yields on bonds to worsen and rates to the consumer to rise.

If you’re looking to get a mortgage and are eyeing an interest rate, make sure you’re speaking with a qualified advisor who can articulate what’s going on the market and give you the best possible advice about when the timing is to lock-in that desired interest-rate.

Get a complimentary mortgage rate quote online today.

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