From Bloomberg:
Rates Below 4% Leave U.S. Refinancing Banker Sleepless
The drop in mortgage rates below 4 percent has cut into Debra Shultz’s sleep. The New York City banker is busier than she’s been in months, working with three dozen homeowners eager to lower their payments.
Shultz helped a Greenwich Village homeowner on Wednesday lock in a 3.63 percent interest rate for a 30-year fixed jumbo mortgage of more than $900,000. An hour later, the rate jumped to 3.75 percent. One lender changed its rate sheet six times that day.
“It just went crazy,” said Shultz, a senior vice president of mortgage lending at Guaranteed Rate in New York. “I sent out a blast e-mail to 1,600 clients and had 30 responses right away.”
Mortgage rates are following a slide in 10-year Treasury yields as weaker-than-expected economic data from Germany to China combine with concern about the Ebola virus, sparking demand for safe investments. The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage dropped to 3.97 percent, the lowest since June 2013, Freddie Mac said yesterday. Borrowing costs spiked in September before dropping for the last four weeks, giving owners a new opportunity to refinance.
“This is bizarro world,” said Anthony B. Sanders, an economics professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. “Usually we associate lower interest rates with lower volatility. Now you’re seeing the opposite.”
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A gauge of U.S. mortgage refinancing jumped 10.6 percent last week, the most since early June, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday. The share of home-loan applicants seeking to refinance climbed to 58.9 percent, the highest since mid-February, from 56.4 percent, the group said. In December of 2012, after the 30-year average rate hit a record low of 3.31 percent in November, borrowers wanting to refinance accounted for 84 percent of applications.
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Housing sales, which have declined from a year ago, won’t get much of a boost from a short-term drop in rates, said Mark Vitner, senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities LLC in Charlotte, North Carolina. It typically takes months for buyers to find properties and close deals, and by then rates likely will have changed.
But where are the qualified sellers?
But where are the qualified sellers?
They’re trolling for s.uckers. praying that someone signs the papers before they realize they got hoodwinked.
You can’t say you weren’t warned
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[3] Starting this year at my work we now get charged a tax, of sorts, if our spouse is offered any health insurance at their job. Something like $50/month I think. We have to sign something that says we stipulate that our spouse is not eligible for any health insurance to avoid the vig. For next year the same thing applies to smoking. If you don’t sign something that says you have been a non-smoker since such and such date (I think August) you have to pay another monthly tax. I speculate that they’ll be weighing us next year and if you don’t meet BMI standards they’ll ding you for that too;-) OTOH, I think they’re fine with you being a meth head.
2. NOM
The ACA enables Walmart to cut its labor costs without necessarily lowering the standard of living of its employees, simply by shifting much of these workers’ health insurance costs to taxpayers.
What exactly is new about corporations shifting costs to taxpayers? They have been doing this for years. Capitalism works this way.
4. ExPat,
No problem for seniors, hey they have been smoking those Lucky Strikes for years and no one is raising their costs.
[6] Phoenix
Read it again. That really wasn’t the point, at least not the main point.
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