Making Good Use Of Local Banks And Credit Unions For Low Loan Rate Bargains

Written by Mark Askew


Withrepparttar average 30 year and 15 year fixed-rate mortgages jumping up to several basis points over recent days, consumers who have been holding out hoping to catchrepparttar 112736 best level ofrepparttar 112737 refinance wave may wonder if they have missedrepparttar 112738 boat. Not necessarily.

At presentrepparttar 112739 equity markets are making a rebound. Ifrepparttar 112740 Dow goes above 9,000 mortgage rates could rise to or through 7 percent. Two weeks ago thirty-year mortgage rates stood at an average 5.98 percent compared with 6.01 percent previously, beatingrepparttar 112741 record low September 27th. Fifteen-year mortgages dropped to an average 5.34 percent, a new record low from its previous record of 5.40 percent last week.

A year ago, 30-year mortgages averaged 6.58 percent while 15-year mortgages averaged 6.06 percent andrepparttar 112742 ARM 5.26 percent. But in just a few days mortgage rates rose 0.25%. andrepparttar 112743 rise continues. Consumers are now having to make tough decisions as to when to make their move and snap up a bargain loan rate beforerepparttar 112744 bargains all gone.

Mortgage Loan Search at http://www.MortgageLoanSearch.cc reports steady financing activity as borrowers pocket cash and save thousands overrepparttar 112745 life ofrepparttar 112746 loan thanks to current low rates. Rate shoppers are finding that some ofrepparttar 112747 best deals for home loan refinancing are offered by local banks and credit unions.

Mortgage Loan Search notes that rate shoppers are finding it best to work with their current local mortgage lender rather than settle for more remote lenders with out a proven track record. Still to getrepparttar 112748 most attractive rates at lowest levels and save thousands in finance costs savvy bargain hunters do well to allow other lenders an opportunity to meet or beat a competitive offer.

Once a few attractive offers are maderepparttar 112749 rate shopper takes them torepparttar 112750 current local mortgage lender and asks them to meet or beat it. The most effective way to getrepparttar 112751 refinancing word out andrepparttar 112752 competitive offers pouring in is by making good use of Internet based lending marketplaces. Lending networks offer low rate shopping in a highly competitive bid-for-your-business marketplace.

A lending marketplace allows consumers to more easily pit lenders and brokers against one another and therefore end up with a great mortgage rate inrepparttar 112753 end. Consumers simply complete one application that is submitted securely to several lenders at one time. Lenders who winrepparttar 112754 bid value their potential customer more and are more often willing to offer a much better product with greater incentives and lower rates. You have more options in choosingrepparttar 112755 loan that's best for you.

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Written by Paul Diemer


Q. How Does It Feel To Be A Rate Cut? A. Anticipated, Talked About, Hoped For,and Completely Ineffective? 11/6/2002 2:33:14 PM

Commenting onrepparttar Federal Reserve's unprecedented 11 rate cuts in 2001, an article inrepparttar 112735 Nov. 5 Financial Times asserted, 'The notion that rate cuts to date have had no effect is wrong. The course ofrepparttar 112736 economy inrepparttar 112737 absence of action would have been worse…'

That statement expresses whatrepparttar 112738 recent surge of speculation about 'Whatrepparttar 112739 Fed Will Do' has already confirmed:repparttar 112740 public still believesrepparttar 112741 Fed can 'fix'repparttar 112742 economy, and that rate cuts arerepparttar 112743 way to do it. From there it's not a stretch to sayrepparttar 112744 public also believes rate cuts are good for stocks -- in fact, several stories last week quoted 'expert analysts' saying as much.

Yet history shows justrepparttar 112745 opposite.

Regarding Japan,repparttar 112746 consensus among U.S. economists is thatrepparttar 112747 Japanese central bank 'cut rates too slowly.' Yet look atrepparttar 112748 NASDAQ's performance during last year's aggressive policy of 11 cuts in 12 months. It's hard to tell which fell more rapidly -- rates orrepparttar 112749 stock index's overall trend.

The point is not to bashrepparttar 112750 Federal Reserve orrepparttar 112751 public for believing in it. Some Fed officials have themselves warned that monetary policy cannot fixrepparttar 112752 market or many ofrepparttar 112753 problems withrepparttar 112754 economy.

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