What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week : October 5, 2009

October 5, 2009 by jberman · Leave a Comment 

Mortgage markets rallied for most of last week, but ended Friday on a sour note. After touching their lowest levels since Memorial Day, mortgage rates spiked to close out the week. Despite pricing getting worse by 1/4 percent Friday afternoon, however, mortgage rates still managed to fall for the second consecutive week. There were two main [...]

Case-Shiller Index Shows Home Values Still Rising

September 30, 2009 by jberman · Leave a Comment 

For the second month in a row, 18 of the 20 Case-Shiller real estate markets posted higher home values.  It’s the 6th consecutive strong showing for the benchmark private-sector housing index. Combined with falling home supplies and rising sales figures, this month’s Case-Shiller Index suggests that housing may have bottomed sometime earlier this year. It’s cause [...]