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2. Mortgage and refinance rates for Dec. 13, 2024: Rates ... - AOL

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   A mortgage point could cost 1% of your mortgage amount, which means about $5,000 on a $500,000 home loan, with each point lowering your interest rate by about 0.25%, depending on your lender and loan.

3. Home equity rates fall across the board ahead of the Fed’s ...

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   Borrowing against your home’s value just got a bit cheaper. The $30,000 HELOC (home equity line of credit) dropped to two basis points to 8.53 percent — its lowest level in a year and a half ...

4. Barbara Corcoran: If Mortgage Rates Hit This Number, the ...

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   A report from the National Association of Realtors backs her up, noting that first-time buyers face significant hurdles, including high home prices, limited inventory, and elevated mortgage rates ...

5. Federal Housing Finance Agency - Wikipedia

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   The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is an independent federal agency in the United States created as the successor regulatory agency of the Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB), the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development government-sponsored enterprise mission team, [3] absorbing the powers and regulatory authority ...

6. Federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - Wikipedia

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   Fannie Mae's Reston, Virginia, facility. The GSE business model has outperformed any other real estate business throughout its existence. According to the Annual Report to Congress, [13] filed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, over a span of 37 years, from 1971 through 2007, Fannie Mae's average annual loss rate on its mortgage book was about four basis points.

7. Government policies and the subprime mortgage crisis

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   Among the new mortgage loan types created and gaining in popularity in the early 1980s were adjustable-rate, option adjustable-rate, balloon-payment and interest-only mortgages. These new loan types are credited with replacing the long-standing practice of banks making conventional fixed-rate, amortizing mortgages.

8. Mortgage rates tick down again, boosting buying activity

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   The average 30-year mortgage rate fell to 6.69%, from 6.81% a week earlier, according to Freddie Mac data. Fifteen-year mortgage rates dropped to an average of 5.96% from 6.1% last week.

9. Federal Housing Administration - Wikipedia

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   In the present day, approximately 46% of first-time homebuyers in the United States utilize FHA loans for their home purchases. Notably, 1 in 16 FHA loan borrowers maintains a credit score below 600, while the average credit score among first-time FHA loan borrowers stands at 677. These first-time homebuyers account for 82% of all FHA purchase ...