Mortgage Rates Commentary 24 November 2009

Mortgage Rates

Credit Union Baywide is the latest lender to make rate changes.  It has increased all its fixed rates by between five and 25 basis points.  Its shorter-term rates got the highest increases and all rates are now sitting well above the median rates for all lenders in our table.

In this week's round up of Expert Views economist discuss tools to manage monetary policy, and changes to interest rates and the dollar, plus they consider upcoming housing statistics.

Another story of note is the rising mortgagee sales occuring recently.  For more on this story and others click here.

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