Thursday, April 9, 2009

30-year fixed-rate mortgage still below 5%: Freddie Mac

clipped from www.marketwatch.com
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Mortgage rates rose this week, but the average rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages remained below 5%, according to Freddie Mac's weekly survey of conforming mortgage rates, released on Thursday.

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.87% for the week ending April 9, up from last week's 4.78% average. The mortgage averaged 5.88% a year ago.

Rates on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 4.54%, up from 4.52% last week. The mortgage averaged 5.42% a year ago.

To obtain the rates, the fixed-rate mortgages and the 5-year ARM required payment of an average 0.7 point and the 1-year ARM required an average 0.5 point. A point is 1% of the mortgage amount, charged as prepaid interest.
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