Daily Newsletter: Mortgage Rates End Week at Best Levels; Economy to Help Housing Recovery; 25 Percent Have Home-Buying Remorse

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30 Year Fixed 4.40%   -0.03 15 Year Fixed 3.47%   -0.03 10YR Treasury 2.67%   -0.0164 FNMA 30YR 3.5 101.33   +0.13 FNMA 15YR 2.5 103.09   +0.08 View Today's Rates

Friday April 25, 2014 Mortgage Rate Watch - 2:44PM Mortgage Rates End Week at Best Levels Mortgage rates moved lower today, reaching their best levels of the week. Slumping stocks and geopolitical concerns contributed to positivity in the bond market, and when bond markets ... MND NewsWire - 10:41AM Economy Poised to Assist Housing Recovery David Crowe, Chief Economist of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) told members attending the Association's 2014 Spring Construction Forecast Webinar that a stronger housing ... MND NewsWire - 12:59PM One Quarter of Americans Have Buyers Remorse While the Gallup survey released on Thursday shows that Americans are regaining their faith in home ownership, at least as a worthwhile investment, another survey conducted by Harris ... Pipeline Press - 10:23AM Lending Trends; Arizona Law Impacts Builders; Jaw-Dropping List of Rules & Regs Governing Lenders Bank of America might have to pony up yet another $13 billion to settle more residential mortgage-backed security claims? No wonder the lending industry continues to face an uphill ... Increasingly Optimistic Attitudes on Housing Market CFPB Pilot Program Seeks to Lessen Closing Table Pain Latest Video The Week Ahead: April jobs report Washington's next steps on Ukraine crisis Santelli Exchange: Ukraine's impact More News from 'Around the Web' CNBC - 3:14PM Chinese Replace Russians as Top NY Apartment Buyers The Big Picture - 3:14PM Containing Ukraine CNBC - 2:05PM Housing reform? Maybe in 2017 CNBC - 12:43PM Why I still like real estate Bloomberg - 12:40PM BofA Could Report Loss on Potential Settlement, Portales Says - Bloomberg time.com - 12:35PM A Fading Middle-Class Perk: Lower Mortgage Rates freddiemac.mwnewsroom.com - 12:25PM Freddie Mac to Purchase and Securitize Tax-Exempt Multifamily Housing Loans Reuters - 10:09AM U.S. consumer sentiment up more than expected in April WSJ - 10:08AM Grand Central: Fed Reinforcements on the Way time.com - 9:19AM The New American Dream Is Living in a City, Not Owning a House in the Suburbs The Big Picture - 9:19AM The Mystery of the Missing Home Buyers WSJ - 9:18AM It's Springtime for the Jumbo Borrower Reuters - 8:17AM Futures fall as Ukraine offsets Microsoft CNBC - 8:15AM Marked for extinction: Bank branches on Main St. Today's Comments MBS Live Chat - 8:08AM "As you get near 2.60 though, you can't look at the yield straight on. Just out of the corner of your eye -- like you don't really care or even notice. That's the only way it will get there...." MBS Live Chat - 8:34AM "trying to understand the day ahead, is MG trying to imply that yesterday's move was more stocks vs. geopolitics?..." MBS Live Chat - 8:49AM "Don't think that was his message. I think the message is that it's difficult to pin the move on a particular impetus right now...." MBS Live Chat - 9:24AM "SK, just pushing back against the over-reliance on Ukraine as a market mover...." MBS Live Chat - 9:55AM "THOMSON REUTERS/U. OF MICH US CONSUMER SENTIMENT FINAL APRIL 84.1 (CONSENSUS 83.0) VS PRELIMINARY APRIL 82.6, FINAL MARCH 80.0..." MBS Live Chat - 12:51PM "who do you guys use for nonwarrantable condos? I have an investment condo in a complex where it's all college students so my investor concentration is off the charts...." MBS Live Chat - 12:53PM "santander does them..." MBS Live Chat - 1:00PM "Advancial does them, and Alliant CU...." MBS Live Chat - 1:45PM "RTRS- FREDDIE MAC CEO LAYTON SAYS U.S. SENATE HOUSING FINANCE BILL COULD UNDERMINE MORTGAGE MARKET STABILITY--LETTER OBTAINED BY REUTERS..." MBS Live Chat - 1:45PM "RTRS- LAYTON SAYS ONE CONCERN IS THAT BILL DOESN'T CLEARLY STATE FREDDIE MAC AND FANNIE MAE'S CORE FUNCTIONS SHOULD BE MAINTAINED DURING TRANSITION TO NEW MORTGAGE SYSTEM..." Today's Rates Best Execution Rate Change 30 Yr FRM 4.40% -0.03 15 Yr FRM 3.47% -0.03 FHA 30 Year Fixed 4.00% +0.00 Jumbo 30 Year Fixed 4.16% -0.04 5/1 Yr ARM 3.21% -0.01 Current Mortgage Rates » What are best-execution rates? Average Mortgage Rates Rate Points Change FHFA * 15 Yr. Fixed 3.80% 1.10 +0.13 30 Yr. Fixed 4.67% 1.44 +0.13 MBA ** 30 Yr. Fixed 4.49% 0.50 +0.02 15 Yr. Fixed 3.55% 0.33 +0.01 30 Yr. Jumbo 4.41% 0.34 +0.02 30 Yr. FHA 4.20% 0.41 +0.06 5/1 ARM 3.16% 0.36 +0.01 Freddie Mac ** 30 Yr. Fixed 4.33% 0.60 +0.06 15 Yr. Fixed 3.39% 0.60 +0.06 1 Yr. ARM 2.44% 0.50 +0.00 5/1 Yr. ARM 3.03% 0.50 +0.00 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 97.31 +0.16 30YR FNMA 3.5 101.33 +0.13 30YR GNMA 3.0 99.27 +0.22 30YR GNMA 3.5 102.63 +0.16 15YR FNMA 3.0 103.09 +0.08 15YR FNMA 2.5 100.47 +0.05 Treasuries Yield Change 2 YR 0.4339% -0.0118 5 YR 1.7298% -0.0132 10 YR 2.6677% -0.0164 30 YR 3.4461% -0.0116 Prices as of: 4/25/2014 3:43PM 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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