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When you start shopping around for home loans you will notice that they vary slightly in several different areas but where they may vary quite a bit and what you will want to pay attention to is the interest rate of the loan. The interest rate of the loan determines, in large part, how affordable your monthly payment will be. When you are buying a home it is important to consider how affordably the monthly payment truly is because you could (more…)

An adjustable rate mortgage, called an ARM for short, is a mortgage with an interest rate that is linked to an economic index. The interest rate, and your payments, are periodically adjusted up or down as the index changes.

ARM Terminology

Index

An index is a guide that lenders use to measure interest rate changes. Common indexes used by lenders include the activity of one, (more…)

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Despite the United States Federal Reserve Board’s diligent attempts to stimulate the economy throughout the year of 2008 by repeatedly reducing the Federal Funds rate, the typically correlating thirty-year average mortgage rate stubbornly remained unchanged through the first quarter of 2009 as if mortgage rates had intentionally ignored Board Chairman Ben Bernanke’s seemingly regular rate cut announcements. The unanticipated loss of the Fe (more…)