Daily Newsletter: Real Estate The Best Long-Term Investment; Mixed Reviews on Mortgage Initiatives; HUD Changes Distressed Sale Requirements; Rates Move Lower

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30 Year Fixed 3.71%   -0.01 15 Year Fixed 3.04%   -0.01 10YR Treasury 1.91%   -0.0280 FNMA 30YR 3.5 105.19   +0.14 FNMA 15YR 2.5 104.92   +0.14 View Today's Rates

Friday April 24, 2015 MND NewsWire - 10:57AM Survey Says: Real Estate is The Best Long-Term Investment Apparently all is forgiven and forgotten and Americans are again embracing real estate as more than just shelter. For the second year in a row a Gallup telephone survey conducted in ... MND NewsWire - 12:27PM Lenders give Mixed Reviews to new GSE, FHA Initiatives, Homeowner Education Lenders appear at least moderately encouraged by new efforts on the part of Fannie Mae and FHA to lower the costs and increase the availability of mortgage financing. Fannie Mae's most ... MND NewsWire - 5:09PM HUD Changes Distressed Loan Sale Requirements The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is tweaking its bulk loan sales program to give distressed borrowers a better shot at staying in their homes. HUD announced today ... Mortgage Rate Watch - 3:45PM Mortgage Rates Continue Marginally Lower Mortgage rates barely budged again today, which means they've been able to hold under an important ceiling as we head into next week's Fed Announcement. Given the improvement in underlying ... MBS MID-DAY: Calmly Holding Gains so Far; Afternoon Could Bring Headwinds Blackstone Rumored to Buy More Lenders; DOJ Sues Quicken; General Industry Trends MBS Day Ahead: In The Range, Counting The Days Until FOMC Latest Video Housing: Hot or not? Why your home may not be selling Santelli Exchange: Capital spending disappointing More News from 'Around the Web' CNBC - 5:04PM This will be a good year for housing: Economist WSJ - 2:43PM HUD Puts In New Protections For Struggling Homeowners Bloomberg - 1:42PM Pimco's Kiesel Sees Bubble in $3 Trillion of Negative-Yield Debt www.realtor.com - 1:42PM Home Prices Are Climbing Faster and Faster, but This Is Not a Bubble Washington Post - 12:01PM Consumers are spending again — but they've gotten smarter about it Calculated Risk Blog - 10:35AM Black Knight: Mortgage Delinquencies Declined in March, First time below 5% since August 2007 Bloomberg - 10:34AM HUD to Delay Foreclosures in Loan-Sale Changes to Aid Homeowners Calculated Risk Blog - 8:44AM Merrill Lynch forecasting 1.5% GDP in Q1 CNBC - 8:41AM US business investment falls for 7th straight month Today's Rates Best Execution Rate Change 30 Yr FRM 3.71% -0.01 15 Yr FRM 3.04% -0.01 FHA 30 Year Fixed 3.37% -0.03 Jumbo 30 Year Fixed 3.64% -0.01 5/1 Yr ARM 3.00% -0.01 Current Mortgage Rates » What are best-execution rates? Average Mortgage Rates Rate Points Change FHFA * 15 Yr. Fixed 3.47% 1.11 +0.02 30 Yr. Fixed 4.33% 1.33 -0.01 MBA ** 30 Yr. Fixed 3.87% 0.38 +0.01 15 Yr. Fixed 3.16% 0.29 +0.01 30 Yr. Jumbo 3.84% 0.35 +0.03 30 Yr. FHA 3.67% 0.23 -0.02 5/1 ARM 2.82% 0.40 +0.06 Freddie Mac ** 30 Yr. Fixed 3.65% 0.60 -0.02 15 Yr. Fixed 2.92% 0.60 -0.02 1 Yr. ARM 2.44% 0.40 -0.02 5/1 Yr. ARM 2.84% 0.40 -0.04 Current Mortgage Rates » * FHFA averages are updated monthly. ** Mortgage Bankers Association (each Wednesday) and Freddie Mac (each Thursday) averages are updated weekly. Secondary Markets MBS Price Change 30YR FNMA 3.0 102.41 +0.17 30YR FNMA 3.5 105.19 +0.14 30YR GNMA 3.0 103.28 +0.17 30YR GNMA 3.5 105.70 +0.14 15YR FNMA 3.0 104.92 +0.14 15YR FNMA 2.5 102.86 +0.13 Treasuries Yield Change 2 YR 0.5081% -0.0203 5 YR 1.3191% -0.0345 10 YR 1.9121% -0.0280 30 YR 2.6136% -0.0162 Prices as of: 4/24/2015 4:30PM EST Current MBS / Treasury Prices » MBS and Treasury data provided by Thomson Reuters. Mortgage News Daily and MBS Live! are exclusive re-distributors of Real Time Thomson Reuters Mortgage Information. Secondary Marketing Managers: If you are interested in gaining access to the most accurate real-time back-month TBA indications from Thomson Reuters and Tradeweb. Request More Information

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