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...Mortgage rates were at 7.5 per cent, a 10-year high and more than double the 3.25 per cent interest Angela, who requested that the Financial Times not use her last name, was paying on the loan on her home...
...The Federal Reserve is expected to cut rates, probably beginning in June. The average rate for a 30-year, fixed home mortgage was around 6.63 per cent last week, according to Freddie Mac....
...Trump appointed Mark Calabria as the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency [the Fannie and Freddie umbrella organisation]....
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...“High mortgage rates are creating a real void for people who don’t have the strong finances that are required to buy in cash,” she said in an interview with the Financial Times....
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...US mortgage rates hit their highest level in almost 23 years last week, while home loan applications tumbled to their lowest since the mid-1990s in a reflection of tough conditions in the housing market....
...But the FHLB overseer (the Federal Housing Finance Agency) and bank regulators should act quickly to implement what is feasible even without legislation....
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...Existing home prices increased for the third straight month as housing supply continued to be squeezed....
...David Stevens, a former head of the Mortgage Bankers Association and a Federal Housing Administration commissioner in the Obama administration, worked directly with ICE officials as a board member of MERS...
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