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Daily mortgage market and interest rate commentary, news, data and analysis by Bruce Brown, Branch Manager and Senior Loan Officer with Prime Lending in Kansas City.

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2008 

Looking Back And Looking Ahead : November 10, 2008   Mortgage rates fell last week, marking just the second time since September that rates improved on a weekly basis. The biggest news of the week was the U.S. Presidential Election.  Markets appeared to cheer the Republican-to-Democrat transfer o...
11/10/2008
Weak Employment Data May Boost The Affordability Of Homes   On the first Friday of every month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its Non-Farm Payrolls report.  More commonly, it's called the "jobs report" and the October's data is trending with the rest of 2008. After shedding another 240,...
11/07/2008
As LIBOR Falls, Homeowners With Adjusting ARMs Get Lower Rates   The interest rate against which adjustable-rate mortgages change is falling -- evidence that the global banking system is starting to stabilize. On any adjustable-rate mortgage, the initial "starter rate" remains fixed for some peri...
11/06/2008
The Federal Reserve confirmed what most of us already knew -- getting qualified for a "prime mortgage" is increasingly more difficult. In a quarterly survey of 84 banks, 75 percent of respondent banks tightened mortgage guidelines over the last 3 months for the most qualified of home loan applica...
11/05/2008
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