Mortgage Weekly Update - Last Week in Review
Foster Weeks publishes a weekly mortgage report which is updated every Monday morning. How is this affecting the San Francisco real estate market? Read our weekly and monthly market reports. Here's what Mr. Weeks says about last week's activity:...Forces were certainly at work to keep the financial markets from being at rest, starting bright and early on Monday morning. The headlines brought a quick shot in the arm for Stocks, as beleaguered Bear Stearns is now expected to see $10 per share in their buyout, rather than the previously expected $2 per share. Great news for the troubled financial sector at large, but Bonds got battered hard, as money flowed out of Bonds and into Stocks - causing home loan rates to rise.
But as the week progressed, some dismal news played out, including a plunge in Consumer Confidence and mixed news on the housing market, which pulled the money right back out of Stocks, and into the safe haven of Bonds...helping home loan rates improve again. But like Newton's famous third law of motion, "every action has an equal and opposite reaction" - Bonds and home loan rates changed course again, on better than expected unemployment claims on Thursday.
Then Friday brought the discovery that Core inflation is perhaps not as hot as previously thought. The highly watched year-over-year core inflation rate was reported at just 2%, as measured by the Fed's favored Personal Consumption Expenditure Index (PCE), and within the bounds of what the Fed would like to see for core inflation. Since inflation is the arch enemy of fixed return Bonds and home loan rates...this news was good indeed, and caused home loan rates to improve once again. Once the dust settled for the week, home loan rates ended up near where they began, before their weekly roller coaster ride...
Read the entire report here.
- Foster Weeks
We are being told by Stacey Fleece, our in house mortgage broker with Princeton Capital, that things are very volatile right now with pricing changes day to day. Her recommendation is, if you find a good rate, lock it in before it goes away. There is still a lot of nervousness out there about the economy.
- Janis Stone
posted by SFResidence.com @ 7:43 AM
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