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March Interest Rates are Better with a Broker

March Interest Rates are Better with a Broker

by Alterna Mortgage | Mar 13, 2023 | Financing, Interest rates, Mortgage Programs, Refinancing

Today the national average 30-year fixed mortgage rate for the beginning of March 2023 is at 7.02%. This is the rate for big banks and large banking firms. Since Alterna Mortgage is an independent broker our average rate today for a 30-year fixed is 5.99%. That is a...
Mortgage rates have largest decline since December 2008

Mortgage rates have largest decline since December 2008

by Alterna Mortgage | Jul 9, 2022 | Financing, Home Buying, Housing Market, Interest rates, Refinancing

While rates were on the rise at the beginning of the year, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.30% in the week ending July 7. This was down from 5.70% the week before. Economic concerns have pushed them lower in recent weeks. Rates are still higher than they...
Could we have hit a rate peak this week? Time will tell.

Could we have hit a rate peak this week? Time will tell.

by Alterna Mortgage | May 17, 2022 | Financing, Housing Market, Interest rates, Real Estate, Refinancing, Uncategorized

The Fed may be over cooking the rate hikes. The result might lower the long-term rates. One week after the first .50% rate hike in 22 years, there were many Fed officials out using soothing rhetoric in an attempt to reassure financial markets they will be able to...
Opinions on the direction of the market differ

Opinions on the direction of the market differ

by Alterna Mortgage | May 11, 2022 | Financing, Housing Market, Inflation, Interest rates, Investment Properties, Refinancing

Jeremy Grantham, one of the economists that predicted the 2008 crash, says we’re in the fifth great bubble of the modern era—and warns the economy won’t ‘skate through’ a housing crisis. Grantham is convinced that we’re in the midst of a fifth great bubble of the...
Recent changes from the Fed

Recent changes from the Fed

by Alterna Mortgage | May 5, 2022 | Financing, Inflation, Interest rates, Refinancing

Yesterday the Fed increased the rate by .5%. This is the largest interest rate increase since 2000. They also are going to be shrinking its nearly $9 trillion balance sheet  starting in June. These policies are likely to ricochet through markets and the economy as...
3 takeaways for the Wednesday January 26th Federal Reserve meeting.

3 takeaways for the Wednesday January 26th Federal Reserve meeting.

by Alterna Mortgage | Jan 30, 2022 | Financing, Home Buying, Inflation, Interest rates, Refinancing, Uncategorized

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday provided the clearest hint yet that it could start raising interest rates as soon as March A .25% increase is expected. The market experts were predicting 3 rate hikes. Now they are predicting 4 hikes. This will be the beginning to the...
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